gray Home Screen/wallpaper on iMac that will not change

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gray Home Screen/wallpaper on iMac that will not change

hello. I downloaded the new macOS last night. Everything was fine and dandy and the new screensavers/wallpaper were working great. this morning when I woke up the Mac it went to a gray wallpaper and it will not change. The screensaver works just fine but when I go back to the Home Screen it instantly goes back to the gray background. Ive reset it a few times already today. When I go into settings it shows that the wallpaper(Grand Canyon at dusk) is selected. when you tell it to go to the Lock Screen the screen saver instantly comes on and does it thing. this is driving me nuts. ive tried to change wallpapers and nothing will get the gray background off.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Sep 29, 2023 12:13 PM

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pbutton

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Oct 2, 2023 7:14 AM in response to Jack-19

I did this and it did not help. Any other ideas?

Either way, this needs to get fixed in one of the next updates

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BDAqua

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Sep 30, 2023 8:56 PM in response to kvenden

EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.

https://www.etrecheck.com/

Thanks for Old Toad’s etrecheck instructions…

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255121100?answerId=259529290022#259529290022

Use the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...

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Jack-19

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Sep 29, 2023 1:22 PM in response to anything_1987

Hi there!

Try to start up into safe mode, log in, and then restart your Mac back into normal mode. Then, try changing the wallpaper again and see if it works correctly.

-Jack

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kvenden

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Sep 30, 2023 7:51 PM in response to Jack-19

Hi Jack,

This has happened to me 3 times, now. While yes, rebooting into safe mode and then rebooting does seem to bring it back, that is quite a tedious fix. Is there no other way to fix it by killing a process or something? I hope this is going to get fixed in 14.1. Thanks.

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Answer 5

Sep 29, 2023 4:49 PM in response to Jack-19

hello. I done as you instructed. after doing that, it seems to have gone back to normal. I now have the wallpapers back. thanks again for your help.

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gray Home Screen/wallpaper on iMac that will not change

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