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macOS Tahoe Adds These 15 New Screen Savers to Your Mac

Godspeed8230 said:
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.
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For me, an aerial takes maybe 10 seconds to download when selected. One moment, let me time it: yep, exactly ten second for the Redwoods River one I just tested now. Two potential issues, beta software you're using, or not, and you're experiencing a network internet issue.
 
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Mac Fly (film) said:
For me, an aerial take maybe 10 seconds to download when I clicked on it. One moment, let me time it: yep, exactly ten second for the Redwoods River one I just tested now. Two potential issues, beta software you're using, or not, and you're experiencing a network internet issue.
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Wow. No, I am neither using beta nor am I having network internet issues, large software updates (1GB+) download super fast.
I don't know - it's not a big thing per se but I find it rather interesting.
 
Godspeed8230 said:
Wow. No, I am neither using beta nor am I having network internet issues, large software updates (1GB+) download super fast.
I don't know - it's not a big thing per se but I find it rather interesting.
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Why not try to delete some (all?) of your aerials and then select one at a time in System Settings and see. The file path is Library (not user Library) > Application Support> com.apple.idleassetsd > Customer > 4KSDR240FPS
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
Until they can come up with something better than nature images, and as they continue to name their releases after places in nature, they should do what they did before they used this stylized gimmick and just choose a beautiful image from the place the release is named for as the wallpaper for that release.
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What is creative about images of nature? That was your criticism.

Mac Fly (film) said:
they shouldn’t make them the marketing image to represent the system, and if they add new abstract images to the library of images, they might try to make something better.
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Which is still my question.
I stand by my opinion that it's a matter of taste. I find the “formatting” of nature images in stylized colors very creative. On the one hand, it plays with design, while on the other hand, the connection to the location is preserved.

You may consider that uncreative, and that's fine with me. But “something better” is not an answer. And certainly not more than a feeling. How are Apple or I supposed to know what you think is better?
 
Godspeed8230 said:
Wow. No, I am neither using beta nor am I having network internet issues, large software updates (1GB+) download super fast.
I don't know - it's not a big thing per se but I find it rather interesting.
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I'm with you on this, fast internet, and using a fully baked OS
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
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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The first two betas didn't have any of the new landscape wallpaper/aerials, so the abstract one was the default for those. The first video is from Beta 1. Tahoe Day was added in Beta 3 and became the new default.
 
BigBlur said:
The first two betas didn't have any of the new landscape wallpaper/aerials, so the abstract one was the default for those. The first video is from Beta 1. Tahoe Day was added in Beta 3 and became the new default.
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True. I haven't been able to confirm if similar happened in 2023 and 2024. macOS got Aerial screensavers with Sonoma in 2023.
 
Just to clarify: If I set one of the default Tahoe ones, e.g. Tahoe Day (Lake Tahoe, California), as a wallpaper, it does not change like dynamic wallpapers did from Mojave to Big Sur, right? :(
 
Btteerfly Keeyboaard said:
Just to clarify: If I set one of the default Tahoe ones, e.g. Tahoe Day (Lake Tahoe, California), as a wallpaper, it does not change like dynamic wallpapers did from Mojave to Big Sur, right? :(
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Correct. The landscape ones are aerials and are not dynamic. When the screensaver is active, they move/pan around. Whatever is showing at the time you stop the screensaver becomes the new background. The background does not change dynamically throughout the day based on the sun.

Tahoe's abstract wallpaper is the dynamic one, but it's only the light/dark kind. It's possible Apple could add additional shades so that it changes throughout the day in a future version. They did this with Sequoia's abstract one...it was initially light/dark and was later updated to have more shades/colors that change throughout the day.

For whatever reason, they didn't do this for Sonoma. If the wallpaper thumbnail shows two previews side-by-side, it's only light/dark. (I wish they didn't call these dynamic.) If there's multiple at a slanted angle, then it changes throughout the day.

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