macOS Sequoia Has New FaceTime Backgrounds Showcasing Apple Park

[turbineseaplane]

The 2020 Rene Ritchie content pack

 

[ashdelacroix]

This fits with the impression I'm given that quite a lot of Apple OS innovation is driven by the needs of their staff, not users more generally.

 

[minik]

That's a nice touch. macOS Sequoia is gonna be yet another great OS release.

 

[.wojtek]

This is groundbreaking! I will buy 5 new macs for my whole family so we can all enjoy this novelty when we do video chat xD

 

[mdelvecchio]

show me the most benign thing on earth and I’ll show you a bunch of people complaining about it online

 

[Victor Mortimer]

Wow, that's really cringe.

I'm not a fan of Apple's faux-nature nonsense, and they could have built an office tower with the provisions already in place to turn it into residential space as working in offices stops being a thing. There's not a single reason for software developers or managers to go into an office if they don't want to. Even hardware developers don't really need to be in a lab at least 95% of the time.

 

[wonderings]

Huh, this seems a bit borderline narcissistic, at least awkwardly self-loving.

yeah so weird, just not like Apple at all...

 

[omenatarhuri]

yeah so weird, just not like Apple at all...

Nooooo, had happily forgot about that one

 

[robd003]

I just want the Beavis and Butthead couch background

 

[tennisproha]

Apple is great. But this, at first glance, seems weird – why pretend you're at Apple?
Wouldn't high quality backgrounds of different regions of Earth be more useful (maybe take inspiration from visionOS environments)?

Yeah my first thought was whether they considered this being a security issue with someone trying to impersonate being an apple employee

 

[mxrider88]

Good to see that they focus on the important things. I’ll wait for the re release though.

 

[red elma]

Much needed!
My friends were not fully convinced that I actually work for 

 

[svish]

The new backgrounds look good.

 

[ennisw]

Now you can be that guy.
"Good morning! 🙏"

 

[henry72]

I love these. I want to use it for my Teams meeting

 

[mazz0]

This fits with the impression I'm given that quite a lot of Apple OS innovation is driven by the needs of their staff, not users more generally.

Oh I have the exact opposite impression. Nothing about iPad Pro, for example, suggests anybody's eating their own dogfood.

 

[JippaLippa]

Have to say it...Apple Park truly is a gorgeous building.

 

[JippaLippa]

I wonder if Photo Booth will get those backgrounds... or if this spells an eventual discontinuation of the Photo Booth application, with a Camera.app replacement, chock-full of visionOS backgrounds. Photo Booth hasn't been updated in a long time.

I know Windows 10/11 has a Camera application, so I wouldn't be surprised if Apple goes the same path. Perhaps in macOS 16.

Even to this day, I still like goofing around photo booth, from time to time.

 

[Rogue AI]

Why would any of us want this?

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Me logging in for standup when these hit MS Teams

"Good Morning ..."

 

[dietg]

Is there any way to download these beauties?

head to : /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Portrait.framework/Versions/A/Resources/backgrounds/image. This folder has all of the backgrounds

 

[wonderings]

Such a bizarre thing, I just had a look and yes they are there, but they don't give you anything else besides some gradient colours. So with all of Apples supposed creativity, they think we just want backdrops of Apple HQ and nothing else?