Wallpaper not cycling through photos randomly

I chatted with Apple Support. All actions they suggested did not work. I then talked to a supervisor and told him about the issue. He could not find any suggestions on his end and is digging further into it. He promised to get in touch again when he finished digging.

Srancoud

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Dec 12, 2023 4:33 PM in response to tobashi81

how do you add it as a wallpaper source, assuming you make it a desktop folder?

You should see a bar labeled "Add photo or album." That leads to a drop down menu from which you can choose the folder with your photos.

Thanks BRAININPA your fix worked for me on my 16" MBP running 13.6.6

Well to br more accurate your routine did some changes. Now I have pics out of my South Africa tour showing up randomly. I have over 6,000 photos in my photo app library. S Africa is only a small part of that.

If anyone knows how to increase the range of wallpaper, or how to fix the broken show all button when selecting all photos in the wall paper selection, please let us all know.

We all have purchased overly expensive apple products based on the Original Apple consumer satisfactions, but somehow Apple has lost their focus on satisfying their loyal consumers, and is into monetarizing their previously free user apps by breaking the originals and selling fixed product lines, broken operating systems. Makes one want to stop using our self controlled personal computers (haw! we have no such control) and pick up a book.

Amazing how a leader in progress has lots its vision and now is just a huckster. Dump Cook and this gang of swindlers. Where is Jobs when you need him?

It seems that almost everything on Ventura refuses to work until you read or figure out work-arounds. Still can't get Wallpaper to rotate through my photos located on an external Toshiba 4TB hard drive. Never had this problem on previous OS versions

Still not fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.5…

At least on my computer there is a partial improvement when using a Photos album as the source: It will show all photos that you have clicked on in the overview before selecting random mode.

Still having this issue. I've also noticed it switches photos way too fast more like at 2 second intervals even though I have it set to 5 seconds. what a joke. and it still only goes through the same few photos none of these "fixes" do anything and should not be necessary.

You'd think this is the most basic thing one can expect from such an expensive state of the art laptop. What it tells us is that apple is not paying attention and does not care. Cutting corners everywhere like most companies now.

Apple support was clueless.

One year later and this issue is STILL not fixed. I've called Apple support three times on this issue in the last year (its one of my favorite features) and they are aware of the problem but have no solution. I feel like I'm running Windoze '95 all over again - but this is Apple 2024. Think Different. Program Better.

I'm having the same issue. It used to work fine, but now it only cycles through the first 3 or 4 pictures and that's it.

I submitted a report. Not expecting much. I called it 'wallpaper dysfunction'

Am glad to know I'm not the only one with this issue.

I’ve just downloaded sonoma, and the problem continues in the wallpaper issues even the work around from Ventura no longer works….

thanks for the info that apple is ‘aware of it’…. i guess that’s a bit of hope…. :-)

I can't even get 3 or 4 pictures! How did you do that?

Hey Mark,

I tried command/shift and scrolled thru my photos and then I set the cycle 5 seconds randomly. It worked for me, but after much trial and error.

good luck

All my photos in Apple Photos are downloaded full size. Makes no difference.

how do you add it as a wallpaper source, assuming you make it a desktop folder?