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The death of dynamic wallpapers?

Rydawg96

Rydawg96

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It seems Apple is no longer interested in the dynamic desktop feature it introduced 3 years ago in Catalina. First, Apple decided to no longer include a dynamic photo walpaper featuring the real Monterey in macOS Monterey, and now the default wallpaper in Ventura isn't even fully dynamic, its only light and dark. Kind of sad to see a cool feature be axed after a few short years.
 
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Rydawg96 said:
It seems Apple is no longer interested in the dynamic desktop feature it introduced 3 years ago in Catalina. First, Apple decided to no longer include a dynamic photo walpaper featuring the real Monterey in macOS Monterey, and now the default wallpaper in Ventura isn't even fully dynamic, its only light and dark. Kind of sad to see a cool feature be axed after a few short years.
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This was the same in Monterey. The default wallpaper was light/dark in the early betas before later becoming dynamic so it should be coming.

They moved away from landscape wallpapers as the default with the Big Sur redesign (one was only included as it had already been prepared prior to the new design being finalised), Monterey and onwards they were no more.
 
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The Monterey dynamic wallpaper isn't even that great. I don't really notice a difference between all the "light" stages until it gets to the the dark one. May as well just be light/dark.
 
I like the idea of dynamic wallpapers, but I don’t really like all those blur and translucent effects, which makes the OS look very different with every wallpaper. I like the concept of frosted glass but it simply doesn’t work everytime. With some wallpapers and some colors it creates such a hideous look. Before they changed it with iOS 7 and OS X Yosemite I didn’t have any problems with choosing my wallpapers. I just used what I liked and didn’t care how it looked in context with the OS. The old design was more universal and elegant.
 
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I like the idea of dynamic wallpapers, but I don’t really like all those blur and translucent effects, which makes the OS look very different with every wallpaper. I like the concept of frosted glass but it simply doesn’t work everytime. With some wallpapers and some colors it creates such a hideous look. Before they changed it with iOS 7 and OS X Yosemite I didn’t have any problems with choosing my wallpapers. I just used what I liked and didn’t care how it looked in context with the OS. The old design was more universal and elegant.
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I started using Macs with High Sierra, so not sure what changed with Yosemite, but I did notice the window colors would be different all the time with Big Sur. Turning off "Allow wallpaper tinting in windows" fixed the issue for me (System Preferences->General); the windows are always the same color now. I rather like the blue and translucency effect, but that can be disabled too.
 
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I started using Macs with High Sierra, so not sure what changed with Yosemite, but I did notice the window colors would be different all the time with Big Sur. Turning off "Allow wallpaper tinting in windows" fixed the issue for me (System Preferences->General); the windows are always the same color now. I rather like the blue and translucency effect, but that can be disabled too.
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Before OS X Yosemite they were using totally different design. With almost no blur and translucency. Look it up on your preffered search engine. But I’m sure you’re find it old and ugly. You’d have to experience the golden era of Apple design.
 
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Personally I’m not bothered.

However, I find it interesting how Apple keeps the number of included wallpapers so low.

I’d guess it’s because of brand recognition. I’d further guess if it was 100% up to Apple with no pushback, we’d only have access to one wallpaper per release, ha.
 
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Monotremata said:
The Mac OS 9 default wallpaper.
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This one?

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Or the smaller, more purple one that tiled?
 
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Rydawg96 said:
It seems Apple is no longer interested in the dynamic desktop feature it introduced 3 years ago in Catalina. First, Apple decided to no longer include a dynamic photo walpaper featuring the real Monterey in macOS Monterey, and now the default wallpaper in Ventura isn't even fully dynamic, its only light and dark. Kind of sad to see a cool feature be axed after a few short years.
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The default macOS Ventura desktop picture has since been updated to be fully dynamic.
 
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