How To Change Wallpaper On Mac To Your Own Picture

Yous tin can alter the picture that'due south displayed on your desktop. Choose from a variety of pictures or colors provided past Apple, or use your ain photos.

Tip: You lot tin drag an epitome from your desktop or a folder onto the thumbnail at the summit of the pane to utilize the paradigm equally your desktop picture.

On your Mac, choose Apple carte du jour > System Preferences, click Desktop & Screen Saver , then click Desktop.

Open the Desktop pane for me
On the left, browse available pictures and colors:
- Pictures and colors from Apple: Click the arrow next to Apple tree, and so select a binder. To download a film (indicated by the download icon ), you must be connected to the net.
  
  Dynamic and Calorie-free and Dark desktop pictures automatically change throughout the course of the twenty-four hour period based on your current location. If Location Services is turned off in Privacy preferences, the picture changes based on the time zone specified in Date & Time preferences.
  
  Some pictures provide notwithstanding images and then the picture doesn't distract from the desktop appearance. For instance, if you chose the dark appearance during macOS setup, the desktop picture is set to a dark nevertheless paradigm. To utilise or stop using a even so prototype (if available), click the pop-up card next to the thumbnail at the tiptop of the pane, and so choose an pick.
- Your photos: Click the arrow next to Photos. If your photos are in the Pictures or some other binder, click the arrow next to Folders, then select a folder.
  
  To add a folder, click the Add button , navigate to and select the binder, and then click Cull.
  
  If your photos aren't shown, they might not exist in the expected file format—JPEG, PICT, TIFF, PNG, or HEIC. Apply Preview to open your photos and salvage them in one of the formats. If your photos are shown but look fuzzy, attempt using larger ones, such as 1024 x 768 pixels.
On the right, click a picture (if the film has a download icon, click the icon) or photo to utilize information technology as your desktop pic. Endeavor different ones until y'all observe the 1 you like all-time.

If you make up one's mind not to use a downloaded picture and want to delete it from your Mac, Control-click the picture, and so cull Remove Download.

If you use i of your photos, you tin can choose to have information technology fill the screen, be centered, or otherwise arranged.

For some folders, you lot can evidence all of the pictures in the folder. Select "Change picture," then choose how ofttimes to change it, such every bit every hour. The pictures are shown based on their order in the folder, or you can choose to show them in a random society.

To chop-chop utilize a photo yous have in the Photos app, open up Photos, select the photo, click the Share button in the Photos toolbar, then cull Set Desktop Motion picture.

You can use a moving picture you notice on the spider web as your desktop moving-picture show. Control-click the image in the browser window, then select Employ Image as Desktop Picture.