Hi,
I just upgraded to Sonoma and everything looks to be working fine with the exception of the wallpaper. If I change it, and switch between spaces, it restores the original Sonoma wallpaper. This happens even if I set options "Show on all spaces", and "Show as screen saver". Does this have a quick fix? It looks to be a bug on macOS Sonoma.
Thanks
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.0
Okay, thanks for checking out the wallpaper changes on multiple desktops. This is not the behavior I saw. I manually created two desktops (no full screen apps). Then switching between any space reset the wallpaper to default.
I finally figured out what was causing the issue. It is because I was using the app TopNotch (version 1.3.2). This app hides the display notch on the macbook pro. Disabling it fixed the issue for me. So it is not a macOS bug.
For a longer term solution to not be distracted by the display notch, I found System Preferences > Accessibility > Display. Here I turned on Reduced Transparency which makes the menu bar greyish in color (on dark mode). This hides the notch to some extent.
Okay, thanks for checking out the wallpaper changes on multiple desktops. This is not the behavior I saw. I manually created two desktops (no full screen apps). Then switching between any space reset the wallpaper to default.
I finally figured out what was causing the issue. It is because I was using the app TopNotch (version 1.3.2). This app hides the display notch on the macbook pro. Disabling it fixed the issue for me. So it is not a macOS bug.
For a longer term solution to not be distracted by the display notch, I found System Preferences > Accessibility > Display. Here I turned on Reduced Transparency which makes the menu bar greyish in color (on dark mode). This hides the notch to some extent.
After a bit o' testing. this may be related to TopNotch. If I disable it, swapping displays doesn't seem to change the wallpaper. We'll see ...
No. I set the wallpaper to a photo of mine. Plug in an external display. When I unplug from that display the wallpaper reverts back to the Sonoma default.
It also happens when I plug into the new display. I set "Show on All Spaces". It will not stay set.
It looks like you are switching to a space with the Arc Browser in Full Screen. You don't see the wallpaper behind a full screen app.
Okay. I played with multiple desktops and on my Macs running Sonoma, the wallpaper set before creating any desktops is the one that is used for newly created desktops. If you change the wallpaper on just one desktop, only it will be set to the new wallpaper.
I hope I explained that well.
Wallpaper is specific to a certain Space - you can have different wallpapers for different Spaces. Not all users really use Spaces, though, so this may not be obvious.
But suppose you have two Spaces. They can perfectly well have different wallpapers - see this capture from Mission Control:
Here, Space 1, has a custom wallpaper (a photo of a sunset), and Space 2 has the default Sonoma wallpaper - but suppose it was the other way around, and then you were to delete Space 2. Then stuff would reverted to Space 1, and you would see a different wallpaper.
Hi,
I found this thread already discussing an issue I am having.
I have a new M2 Pro Mac Mini. I am setting it up and it is fresh out of the box. One of the things I am doing is changing to a custom Background.
Background changed. Looks Good.
Restart - Background goes back to default.
I have tried just about everything that has been suggested here including creating a new desktop and deleting the old one etc.
What I have found is if I log out, so Apple - Log Out "User Name". and then log in, the background I saved before restart comes back.
On Restart The lock screen is always the Background I chose. After log in it changes to the default.
When I restart and gop to System Settings - Background the selected background is showing as the chosen background in System Settings, but it will not let me select it. The default is displaying on the Desktop, but I cannot select the one I want, IE the one that was selected before restarting.
If I select the drop down for fit to screen and change to any of the options, I am able to select the background I want.
Restart and then the default comes back.
Log Out and then Log back in and then the Background I want comes back straight away.
No Software installed just trying to change the background to an image on my USB Stick, which is now stored on the computer.
Am I missing something or is there a bug?
I cannot reproduce this. I have tried setting the same wallpaper in all Spaces, and also setting different wallpapers for different Spaces, and they are all sticking. This is on a Mac Studio.
I will test later on my Intel Mac, but I will not be able to install Sonoma on it just yet.
Yes, I understand. But once I switch back to the desktop (switch spaces), the wallpaper reverts to the default Sonoma wallpaper. The transition is a bit quick for the eye to see, but its at 11 - 12 seconds into the video.
So I switched spaces to a full screen app (Arc) using the cmd-tab shortcut. Then I switched back to desktop using the same shortcut. When we use the shortcut, it shows the available full screen apps. Those are the icons that show up in the middle of the video.
I have the same issue. Running the latest version of Sonoma. I'm don't have TopNotch as others do. My wallpaper changes to the default "Sonoma Horizon" wallpaper almost every time I open my Macbook Pro, or if it stays open for an extended period of time.
I have same problem on my mac. Put a picture from photos on as wallpaper and sporadically could be a day or two weeks it changes back to sonoma horizon. This was after latest update. Apple didn’t know anything about it. Apple rep I spoke to had me clear some caches and will follow up to see if worked. I doubt it will. If anyone finds a fix let me know. I do not have Top Notch don’t know what that is.
Not seeing the problem on an iMac Pro.
Just curious, why are the icons showing up in the middle of the video?
Wallpaper changes back to default after switching spaces
