macOS Golden Gate Gets New Wallpaper

[worldvirus]

I'm still confused by this, at a time when internationally America is a "bit on the nose" it doesn't seem like a great commercial decision naming an OS in such a US centric or nationalistic way

 

[Morod]

These look great to me. I may change from the dynamic screensavers I'm using on Sequoia.

 

[axantas]

I'm still confused by this, at a time when internationally America is a "bit on the nose" it doesn't seem like a great commercial decision naming an OS in such a US centric or nationalistic way

He might have asked for it...

 

[CarAnalogy]

Everyone who has been to the Bay Area with a proper camera has taken that shot at Marshalls/Baker beach. Those rocks might be photographed as much as the Eiffel tower or Cinderella castle.

I just really wish San Francisco was promoted a little more heavily. No one on the internet ever talks about it!

 

[TheDailyApple]

They have been using wavy colors or abstract as the default since macOS 11 Big Sur. The last time they used a realistic photo was macOS 10.15 Catalina. And now we have this, but not as the default.

Yeah, I remember. I wasn’t crazy about the Catalina wallpaper, but it was better than the abstracts. Mohave was pretty good (also my favorite version of macOS—it was rock solid), but I miss the Lion, Mountain Lion, Yosemite, and El Capitan wallpapers.

 

[Elcuria]

Last good one was macOS Mojave

I run the dynamic Mojave wallpaper on all my Macs even if they are not running Mojave.

This SF wallpaper looks really nice. Too bad it's not dynamic so it shows the bridge lit up at night.

 

[platinumaqua]

I like that photo.
Wonder if there will also be one where it is foggy 😱 😎

I have an idea. Link it to storage or memory status. The more full it is, the foggier the wallpaper.

 

[tomtad]

Animated screensaver, two separate options
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Not good. These should be able to automatically flip when you go to dark mode

 

[digitalrampage]

I’m one of the longest serving members here and the fact this is exciting to people or even worthy of its own front page post is kind of crazy to me. I’d prefer to see bugs quashed then to have a pretty wallpaper that has likely been retouched and color graded out of reality.

 

[jchap]

Mohave was pretty good (also my favorite version of macOS—it was rock solid), but I miss the Lion, Mountain Lion, Yosemite, and El Capitan wallpapers.

You can still find them… it’s not like they have gone away.

 

[jchap]

I’d prefer to see bugs quashed then to have a pretty wallpaper that has likely been retouched and color graded out of reality.

It’s nice to have both. Good aesthetics and a solid platform form the Apple experience, at its optimum. 😉

 

[mansplains]

This is ridiculous. Apple wastes all this effort taking beautiful photos when we can just generate our own wallpapers with Image Playground. No wonder memory is so expensive now… hope that photo shoot was worth it.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

I just really wish San Francisco was promoted a little more heavily. No one on the internet ever talks about it!

Could be because no one on the internet can afford to live or visit SF! I heard it was $6000/mo minimum to rent a 1bdrm apartment.

 

[brinkeguthrie]

Anyone got a download link?

haven't found one yet

 

[jchap]

This is ridiculous. Apple wastes all this effort taking beautiful photos when we can just generate our own wallpapers with Image Playground. No wonder memory is so expensive now… hope that photo shoot was worth it.

It’s doubtful that a photo like that would’ve cost them much money at all. Besides, Apple likely has their own media budget for things like this. For all we know, it might even have been a free contribution volunteered by somebody within the company, or maybe they hold internal photo contests where employees freely contribute their own work.

It’s highly questionable that one would be able to come up with something at this level of detail and realism with Image Playground.

 

[mansplains]

It’s doubtful that a photo like that would’ve cost them much money at all. Besides, Apple likely has their own media budget for things like this. For all we know, it might even have been a free contribution volunteered by somebody within the company, or maybe they hold internal photo contests where employees freely contribute their own work.

It’s highly questionable that one would be able to come up with something at this level of detail and realism with Image Playground.

Exactly! What a waste of all that high-quality photography, especially if it’s fostering some kind of community too. Image Playground would’ve spared us the unnecessary artistic detail, kept people nicely isolated, and given us a perfectly mediocre result instead.