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Why Won't My Lock Screen Change?

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TurboCoder2022

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I have a 2022 Mac studio - on Mac OS X Ventura 13.3.1. I tried changing all of my screen background wallpaper to the orange, got tired of it, and now tried to change it back to the purple. I can change all screens except for the lock screen where my user icon + password shows up.

Why won't my lock screen wallpaper change back to the purple one when I select it?
 
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TurboCoder2022 said:
For a $3,999 computer (with monitor) I expect it to be bug-free. I don't think that's too much to ask...
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what does the price of the hardware have to do with the complexities of the OS? nothing is bug-free, there are always issues. hence the endless betas and official updates.

someone running a refurbed air, for example, shouldn't be penalized with bugs because they didn't buy more expensive hardware... 🤯
 
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fisherking said:
what does the price of the hardware have to do with the complexities of the OS? nothing is bug-free, there are always issues. hence the endless betas and official updates.

someone running a refurbed air, for example, shouldn't be penalized with bugs because they didn't buy more expensive hardware... 🤯
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I understand bugs on certain items. I don't understand bugs on changing my wallpaper on my lockscreen when I'm tired of it.
 
TurboCoder2022 said:
I understand bugs on certain items. I don't understand bugs on changing my wallpaper on my lockscreen when I'm tired of it.
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first, it's such a small thing (look thru this forum for people with serious issues). second, it's a problem you're having, not a bug everyone is having... hence, not a bug...

and which bugs do you understand? i mean, everyone has different needs, finds different things 'urgent'. anyway see if @anshuvorty 's post above helps.
 
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frqunzfltr said:
The definition of a bug is in part, that not everyone is experiencing it.
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the definition of a bug is that, if not everyone, than many people are experiencing it. either way, this does not seem to be common (altho certain mac OS moments locked us into the default wallpaper on boot/wake). and either way, you deserve to get it sorted out.

discuss here! (ie specifics about the OS version, what happens, where you store your desktop images, etc). or you can also... call apple. good luck! 👍
 
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frqunzfltr said:
This is just wrong. But no point arguing with you. A bug is a bug, only one user with a unique scenario is enough to call it a so.
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there's a difference between a bug, and an issue someone is having. it's useful to sort those things out.

either way... start a thread, post details, get help with the 'bug/issue'. or again, call apple, and let them sort it out!
 
The method described in the link above works for me. Note that it's the root level Library. I can't quite remember what I did, maybe I had to create the folder with my UUID?
 
anshuvorty said:
Try this: https://osxdaily.com/2023/02/27/how-to-change-the-lock-screen-wallpaper-on-macos-ventura/
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Um no. End users should NOT have to save a new picture in a different file format, in a different directory for macOS to use it properly. It's good to know where the default ones are but again end users should not have to do this.

These bugs are MORE than ever before and we're all just finding out nuances of macOS 13 and one's from macOS 11 popping up again or changes to previous bugs.

REALLY annoying!

Man I really REALLy wish Bertrand & Ave T was still at Apple.
 
I just realized that it's something a tiny bit different. To be clear: my lock screen (when you do command + control + Q on the keyboard) does change. It's when I first start up that it displays a different lock screen (the orange Ventura one). I want to change that lock screen when it first boots up to the Monterey purple one, which is what needs to be the same everywhere.
 
If you have FileVault enabled it seems to lock down the startup wallpaper to the Ventura default. Turning off FileVault and restarting will display your user selected wallpaper. But if you turn on FileVault again it will revert back.

Doing a bit of looking it seems there isn't a way around this. This might be expected behavior by Apple, but submitting a bug report might get them to change it in the future?

Edit: As an aside, I would not recommend disabling FileVault
 
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DeepIn2U said:
Um no. End users should NOT have to save a new picture in a different file format, in a different directory for macOS to use it properly. It's good to know where the default ones are but again end users should not have to do this.

These bugs are MORE than ever before and we're all just finding out nuances of macOS 13 and one's from macOS 11 popping up again or changes to previous bugs.

REALLY annoying!

Man I really REALLy wish Bertrand & Ave T was still at Apple.
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The OSXDaily article isn't describing a fix for a bug, it's describing how to assign a separate Lock Screen wallpaper from your desktop wallpaper. It's an unsupported feature hence the awkward steps to make this hack work.

You may have noticed by now that when you change your desktop wallpaper on the Mac, the login screen wallpaper changes automatically to reflect that wallpaper too. Some users may be thrilled with that level of customization alone, but it turns out you can actually set these as two different images if you’d like to.
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I find it almost comical how so many people on this forum NEED to push the narrative that macOS is so riddled with bugs they will turn non-bugs into bugs, or turn behavior that in their subjective opinion is "wrong" into massive issues when other people may prefer the behavior.
 
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Rkuda said:
The OSXDaily article isn't describing a fix for a bug, it's describing how to assign a separate Lock Screen wallpaper from your desktop wallpaper. It's an unsupported feature hence the awkward steps to make this hack work.



I find it almost comical how so many people on this forum NEED to push the narrative that macOS is so riddled with bugs they will turn non-bugs into bugs, or turn behavior that in their subjective opinion is "wrong" into massive issues when other people may prefer the behavior.
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I find it unusual when a new feature is introduced, considering how minor but personal aspect for the user that Apple doesn't make this change clear with simple note in the settings for a desktop.

pushing the narrative that macOS is so riddled with bugs could be subjective to the end user. Many threads here on bugs typically start out as the end user's understanding or action is incorrect yet after some time many others discover and thus ends up a a community of users discovering a bug.
 
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