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macOS Tahoe Adds These 15 New Screen Savers to Your Mac
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These screen saver / wallpaper combos look great from a distance but they're not retina sharp, which makes sense as it would make them prohibitively huge in file size.
But unfortunately it does make them noticeably blurry when they're paused in the “wallpaper” state on a Studio Display.
But unfortunately it does make them noticeably blurry when they're paused in the “wallpaper” state on a Studio Display.
It’d be great to be able to set the four Tahoe scene wallpapers to automatically reflect the time of day. There doesn’t seem to be a neat way of doing it at the moment without messing with plists
Is Tahoe a dynamic wallpaper?! I miss the landscape dynamic wallpapers, they should bring them back
Those are just the standard wallpapers used for branding or marketing. It doesn't mean that they're the defaults.
Ever since Sonoma, the default wallpaper on a clean install or new user profile has been the landscape/aerial ones. I just spun up brand new VMs to confirm. In Tahoe, the abstract one isn't even included as a built-in or stock wallpaper. It needs to download when it's selected for the first time.
Sonoma: Sonoma Horizon
Sequoia: Sequoia Sunrise
Tahoe: Tahoe Day
Big Sur, Monterey, and Ventura don't have aerial screensavers; they were added in Sonoma. In my experience, if I'm using the default one, then macOS will use the new default one after the upgrade. If I'm not using the default one, then macOS will keep using the current one after the upgrade.
As an example, when I set my Sequoia VM to use the abstract wallpaper and upgrade to Tahoe, Sequoia's abstract one remains as my wallpaper in Tahoe. When I set my Sequoia VM to use the default wallpaper (Sequoia Sunrise) and upgrade to Tahoe, then Tahoe's default wallpaper (Tahoe Day) is set after the upgrade.
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Someone already confirmed this, but thanks for double checking. That is good news, as the aerial screensavers feature is great. They should align the marketing with them, and forgo those Playskool background images.Those are just the standard wallpapers used for branding or marketing. It doesn't mean that they're the defaults.
Ever since Sonoma, the default wallpaper on a clean install or new user profile has been the landscape/aerial ones. I just spun up brand new VMs to confirm. In Tahoe, the abstract one isn't even included as a built-in or stock wallpaper. It needs to download when it's selected for the first time.
Sonoma: Sonoma Horizon
Sequoia: Sequoia Sunrise
Tahoe: Tahoe Day
Big Sur, Monterey, and Ventura don't have aerial screensavers; they were added in Sonoma. In my experience, if I'm using the default one, then macOS will use the new default one after the upgrade. If I'm not using the default one, then macOS will keep using the current one after the upgrade.
As an example, when I set my Sequoia VM to use the abstract wallpaper and upgrade to Tahoe, Sequoia's abstract one remains as my wallpaper in Tahoe. When I set my Sequoia VM to use the default wallpaper (Sequoia Sunrise) and upgrade to Tahoe, then Tahoe's default wallpaper (Tahoe Day) is set after the upgrade.
Dynamic wallpapers are still there, I believe. They are in Sequoia anyway, 33 of them in addition to the 137 Aerials.
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The last landscape dynamic wallpaper was Big Sur. Then they switched to abstract dynamic wallpapers including in Sequoia
The feature name I mean, not necessarily the content. Though, at least in Sequoia, the Big Sur and Catalina non-abstract dynamic wallpapers are still there. The Aerials are a superior feature anyway IMO. Apple may be more focused on that feature from positive feedback about it?
I just want them to fix the wallpaper that's supposed to shuffle through my photos, but never shows anything but some trees.
Because that's what they're called - tea gardens/estates. Look it up. I was hoping to see something in this new batch from Darjeeling (my favorite place on earth), but oh well.
Have no reason to doubt your experience, but check out this user’s early Tahoe beta clean install setup from two months back:
Update: though, I do believe their (annoyingly AI narrated) video from three weeks ago which did a virtual machine “clean install” seems to have started up into the Tahoe Day Aerial screensaver:
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Corresponding screensavers are a separate thing not tied to dynamic wallpapers. As you can see in your screenshot, not all of them have it.
But dynamic wallpapers were initially all landscapes starting with Catalina, until they changed them to abstracts starting with Monterey
Aerials are an import from Apple TV. Dynamic wallpapers are native to macOS
As a side note: How come downloading these wallapers/screensavers take so long? I have a very fast internet connection but it takes at least 15 minutes or so to download one wallpaper. And it's so annoying that you can't switch windows because then the download aborts and the progress isn't saved. This whole process is rather cumbersome.
Also, I wish they'd add more scenes from Europe, European cities.
Also, I wish they'd add more scenes from Europe, European cities.
I don't think that switching windows aborts the download but certainly you can't start more than one download at a time: the moment you do it, the previous one will not complete. And they are strangely slow.
I've got the same issue on my MBP of the downloads stopping if I move away. Speeds are incredibly slow too.