Downloaded full release of Sonoma this morning. Changing the wall paper in Settings does not work. Stuck with the Sonoma Vineyard scene it booted with after installing. Any ideas?
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Mac mini, macOS 14.0
A workaround. Go to settings/wallpaper/your chosen Photos Album. Eventually (can take a while) your photo albums will list and there will be a thumbnail of each photo in the album. The first thumbnail is the non working 'cycle the album' activator. Any photo you click on becomes the wallpaper. Now keep clicking successively on as many as you want. Now go back to that first activator thumbnail and click on it. All photos you clicked will now cycle. I have 4100 photos in my 'wallpaper' album, but only have about 200 cycling. Good luck.
PS How many Sonoma updates do we have to wait for before Apple addresses this BIG FAIL. I think with 14.2 we have had 4.
That is the work-around, not the solution. Sonoma broke the ability to randomize photos as Wallpaper in the Photos app of one of your selected albums. It only shows the Apple Vineyard photo. Previous versions of macOS let you choose an album in the Photos app (or iPhoto) and let you randomize that album as Wallpaper, without having to export your photos into a folder to choose as Wallpaper.
I haven't tried a folder, but I don't think it is a downloading issue. I run Photos on my iMac "unoptimised" so all photos are already on the iMac. Maybe Apple is so in love with the new wallpapers they assumed no-one would want to use their own photos and didn't test it!
Thanks Mark, but different issue from the one I raised. The new Apple wallpapers seem to be stills from the new screen savers and the 4k screensaver .MOV files are up to 900MB. So they take a while. The issue is that Sonoma won't use a Photos album of your own photos as a screensaver.
+1 here. Pics do not display as wallpaper, nor do the Sonoma OEM pics. Just a gray desktop. The Sonoma will works as screensaver but not wallpaper. This is a 2nd account. Mine works as expected.
and where did the sleep, shutdown, restart buttons go? Mia all users.
I don't think you fully understand the topic. My first post was about Sonoma not changing wallpaper at all. But as you have found, Sonoma does display the Apple wallpapers correctly once they have been downloaded and that seems to be what you are responding to. However, Sonoma will NOT shuffle an album of your own images from Photos as wallpaper. Have a look at my post from 26 September with an image attached. To make it clearer I have attached a screen shot from Settings. You'll see that Wallpaper is set to shuffle an album from my Photos library called Funghi. And on the desktop behind it you can see the Sonoma Vineyard wall paper. Try it.
If you want your posts to be treated with respect, treat others with respect. Describing others' legitimate posts as "griping" will not earn you a positive reaction in these discussions.
The screen saver also doesn't work and displays no photos / I have only got the desktop to change photos by doing what the person said and click each photo even though I have over 400 its ridiculous !! If you don't do that it stays on the same photos and just rotates those over and over.
I've also determined it's not a downloading issue, the same album runs as a screen saver just fine. Then fails again as a wallpaper
I have submitted a bug report to Apple, but that tends to be a bit of a write only memory. I guess it will get fixed eventually.
My iMac did initially change the wallpaper, but the next time I used the computer I had the black screen and I wasn’t able to change wallpaper to a photo of mine.
This worked. For a minute. Literally only lets you select a few from an album before puking. Exporting to a directory is, so far, the only viable option. That works fine.
I used to have my wallpapers change every 5 minutes. With Sonoma, I have not yet found out how to have wallpapers auto-change every 5 minutes.
Does anybody have any ideas about auto-changing wallpaper, or has Apple made an error with Sonoma?
However, you can set Sonoma to display different wallpapers and screensavers on different monitors if there are multiple monitors connected. There is a drop-down list under the wallpaper sample picture at the top of the Wallpaper and Screen Saver options where you can select different monitors.
Regards
Schof
When I go to have one of my photos as wallpaper all that happens is I get a blue screen. In settings, it shows my photo as if it would be the wallpaper. and I click to show on all spaces, but it still just gives me a solid blue screen
Never ever had this problem with earleir OS versions.
Have had this problem since day 1.
Screensaver is working with the selected album from Photos, screensaver isn't.
When selecting a folder on local hard drive it's ok, but having all my pictures in photos I am stuck now with the default wallpaper.
They are nice, but I was disappointed to learn that they do not move in background, only when screen is locked or as a screensaver.
So please fix the issue when selecting a folder or album from photos. Single pictures ARE shown and when I select each one of the album separately the whole album works - until I make a change again. But clicking through 400+ pictures each time is no solution.
Unable to change wallpaper on my Mac post Sonoma update
