Location of Downloaded Wallpapers in macOS Sonoma. Delete wallpaper after downloading it.

Press cmd+shift+g and paste the following:

/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/4KSDR240FPS

Press enter and it should look something like this:

Delete the ones you don't want.

It didn’t work

Sonoma is the most confusing, screwed up OS I have ever seen in the 27+ years as a Mac user!!!

#1 - There is no Desktop pictures folder showing when you go to HD / Library

#2 - If you go to HD / Application Support / com.apple.idleassetsd / Customer / I get this. No "Desktop pictures" that I see. Does anyone else see Desktop pictures?? No, I don't think so...........neither do I so where-o-where did Apple hide the Desktop pictures that are supposed to be integrated into this obfuscated OS Sonoma?

Btw - The first five folders showing here are EMPTY. Nothing in them.

Thank you . It worked. But dynamic wallpaper doen't move on my mac sonoma. Do you also know the reason? Or it suppose to be?

SergeantMac wrote:

I am not “assuming” anything. To each his own.

"I can't imagine anyone who has been a Mac user for any length of time being pleased with Ventura/Sonoma"

You can make the folder in /Library and it will behave like it used to.

padmanabhadas9647 wrote:

1. What is the location of the downloaded wallpapers in macOS Sonoma?

2. Also, I suppose there is no option to delete a wallpaper after downloading it, which was there in macOS Ventura. Can you please add that feature in the next update?

you add your wall paper here, from Finder>Go>Go to Folder copy & paste:

/Library/Desktop Pictures

you do not have r/w to the System wall paper

/System/Library/Desktop Pictures

for removing you can reference the note—

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/macos-14-sonoma-the-ars-technica-review

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16thw4m/deleting_the_new_sonoma_wallpapers/

The wallpapers may be in another folder. Go to view —> Show path bar, then click the “customer” folder on the bottom, and explore the folders listed there, unless Apple has changed where they are stored.

I created a folder in Pictures and put what I want as Wallpaper in that. I then go to the desktop and right click on it "Change Wallpaper". In the Wallpaper app I choose #Add Folder or Album" and choose the folder in Pictures that I created with the photos that I create earlier. I also choose "Fill Screen"

Almost all parts of macOS are now on a locked volume that is not user-accessible. This isn't new with Sonoma, I don't believe. It's a security measure. Some people are okay with it; some are not. But as the operating system belongs to Apple, they will do what they will do.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Almost all parts of macOS are now on a locked volume that is not user-accessible. This isn't new with Sonoma, I don't believe. It's a security measure. Some people are okay with it; some are not. But as the operating system belongs to Apple, they will do what they will do.

Since OS Ventura. I can't imagine anyone who has been a Mac user for any length of time being pleased with Ventura/Sonoma - again, the most confusing, counter-intuitive operating systems Apple has ever dumped out on the public. Oh yes, "Apple will do what they will do"............and once loyal Apple customers "will do what they will do" which could very possibly be not buy another Apple product.............

SergeantMac wrote:

Since OS Ventura. I can't imagine anyone who has been a Mac user for any length of time being pleased with Ventura/Sonoma - again, the most confusing, counter-intuitive operating systems Apple has ever dumped out on the public. Oh yes, "Apple will do what they will do"............and once loyal Apple customers "will do what they will do" which could very possibly be not buy another Apple product.............

I've been using Apple computers since before Macs, the Apple IIe, to be exact. I liked Ventura and I like Sonoma. I find them as easy to use as most versions of macOS and far easier to use than the early versions of Mac OS. I mean, who wants to go back to Multifinder or troubleshooting extension conflicts? Okay, ResEdit was fun as long as you didn't do something stupid but people so often did.

Don't assume that, because you don't like something, your view is shared by everyone else.

You have to select Add Photo > Choose… then Navigate to the location where you saved it.