Archive Offers Up All Past Mac and iOS Wallpapers

[MacRumors]

Over the weekend, Reddit user Nucleam shared photo albums containing archives of all of the different wallpapers that Apple has offered for iOS and macOS, providing an interesting trip down memory lane.

There are two separate Google Photos albums for iOS and macOS, with images dating back multiple years.

The iOS album, for example, contains wallpapers from iOS 3 and beyond, along with promotional images Apple has used for advertising purposes, images from WWDC and special events, and more.

The macOS album features wallpapers dating back to System 7, with images from Mac OS 9, all the versions of OS X, and more modern wallpapers from the newer versions of the Mac operating system. Event wallpapers, such as those used for the 2017 iMac and the 2017 MacBook Pro, are also available.

As The Loop pointed out this morning, this is an excellent collection of wallpapers that's worth checking out if you want to revisit (and use) some of Apple's past wallpaper options.

Article Link: Archive Offers Up All Past Mac and iOS Wallpapers

 

[bluespider]

awesome find, thanks for sharing...

 

[malcolmman89]

Thanks for the post! I love the iOS and Mac OS wallpapers of yesteryear.

 

[rafark]

My fav of alll time is the one from Maverics. Still use it.

 

[MakeAppleAwesomeAgain]

I still use the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger default blue background on both my notebook and desktop, it literally never gets old.

 

[Gamer9430]

ummmmmm, I did this over a year ago and got no recognition... sigh. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/project-complete-collection-of-mac-os-wallpapers.2036834/

EDIT: And he's asking for donations?!

 

[chucker23n1]

I've always found iOS 4's default wallpaper… hideous. I love teal, but teal to grey? Raindrops? The combination doesn't even make sense. What does it mean?

 

[Xavier]

Wow, this is amazing!

 

[Mikey44]

ummmmmm, I did this over a year ago and got no recognition... sigh. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/project-complete-collection-of-mac-os-wallpapers.2036834/

EDIT: And he's asking for donations?!

You didn't post it on Reddit. Macrumors is more likely to pull things from its own forums rather than Redd.. oh... wait.. Nevermind.

 

[macduke]

You didn't post it on Reddit. Macrumors is more likely to pull things from its own forums rather than Redd.. oh... wait.. Nevermind.

This. This so much yes this. I used to post more mockups back in the day and then some other site like 9to5Mac later on would have similar mockups and then MacRumors would do a story on that. I actually designed things that made it into iOS a year or two later in similar form, lol. Like the original lock screen notification interface.

 

[JosephAW]

I thought it was a zip file. Was going to download it on my iPhone. Don't want to save one file at a time.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

ummmmmm, I did this over a year ago and got no recognition... sigh. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/project-complete-collection-of-mac-os-wallpapers.2036834/

EDIT: And he's asking for donations?!

Well I will use your link instead, and I will give you no money!

 

[mcdj]

Not to be a Debbie Downer, but isn’t posting assets from a beta OS against the beta program T&Cs? For that matter, isn’t hosting any Apple IP on a non-Apple server without permission a no-no?

 

[cecil444]

Yay this makes me happy. I tried to collect them once but knew I’d missed some. Love all the old wallpapers

 

[ignatius345]

I thought it was a zip file. Was going to download it on my iPhone. Don't want to save one file at a time.

Check this link below ↓ -- if you go to his Dropbox link and choose to "direct download", it'll come in as a single ZIP.

ummmmmm, I did this over a year ago and got no recognition... sigh. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/project-complete-collection-of-mac-os-wallpapers.2036834/

EDIT: And he's asking for donations?!

 

[Braderunner]

ummmmmm, I did this over a year ago and got no recognition... sigh. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/project-complete-collection-of-mac-os-wallpapers.2036834/

EDIT: And he's asking for donations?!

Yours are better. I don’t like these ones.

 

[Gamer9430]

Yours are better. I don’t like these ones.

Mine actually come straight from the OSes, as I literally installed every OS on my various computers, and pulled them directly from the OSes and compiled them into a folder.

 

[Mr. Donahue]

ummmmmm, I did this over a year ago and got no recognition... sigh. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/project-complete-collection-of-mac-os-wallpapers.2036834/

EDIT: And he's asking for donations?!

Treasures in Heaven.
All your good deeds will come back to you.
God bless you for not being a douche and asking for money.

 

[ThatGuyInLa]

We’re sorry Siri doesn’t work. Hey! Wallpapers!

 

[dickie001x]

My fav of alll time is the one from Maverics. Still use it.

Yuck!

 

[erinsarah]

Bring back the flying toasters screen saver, THEN we'll talk.

 

[jlc1978]

Bring back the flying toasters screen saver, THEN we'll talk.

Here's a browser based recreation:
https://www.bryanbraun.com/2014/03/15/how-i-rebuilt-flying-toasters-using-only-css-animations/

You could probably setup a web server on your Mac and run it locally:

http://osxdaily.com/2016/06/05/web-site-as-screen-saver-mac/

Someone else has a screensaver for sale:

http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasters/index.shtml

I had Energizer Bunny; scared me to death when for some reason a 2 AM it came on a full volume...

 

[0248294]

ummmmmm, I did this over a year ago and got no recognition... sigh. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/project-complete-collection-of-mac-os-wallpapers.2036834/

EDIT: And he's asking for donations?!

MacRumors sure loves its community

 

[Guy Clark]

Every Default macOS Wallpaper in Glorious 5k Resolution
https://512pixels.net/projects/default-mac-wallpapers-in-5k/

The Snow Leopard Wallpaper looks great on Mavericks.

 

[Colonel Blimp]

What are these "wallpapers" of which you speak?

Here in the Mac world, we have "desktop pictures." Never in the Macintosh System Software, nor in Mac OS, nor in Mac OS X, nor in OS X, nor yet in macOS have desktop pictures been referred to as "wallpapers."

Are you all (yes, including you, Juli) fifth columnists? Harrumph!