How To Change The Background Picture On A Mac

You lot tin change the pic that's displayed on your desktop. Choose from a variety of pictures or colors provided by Apple, or utilise your own photos.

Tip: You can drag an image from your desktop or a folder onto the thumbnail at the elevation of the pane to use the paradigm as your desktop picture.

On your Mac, choose Apple tree menu > Organization Preferences, click Desktop & Screen Saver , then click Desktop.

Open the Desktop pane for me
On the left, scan available pictures and colors:
- Pictures and colors from Apple: Click the arrow next to Apple, and so select a binder. To download a flick (indicated by the download icon ), you must exist connected to the internet.
  
  Dynamic and Light and Dark desktop pictures automatically modify throughout the course of the solar day based on your current location. If Location Services is turned off in Privacy preferences, the motion-picture show changes based on the time zone specified in Date & Time preferences.
  
  Some pictures provide still images so the picture doesn't distract from the desktop appearance. For case, if you chose the dark advent during macOS setup, the desktop picture is set to a dark still image. To use or stop using a still image (if available), click the popular-upwards bill of fare next to the thumbnail at the top of the pane, then choose an selection.
- Your photos: Click the arrow next to Photos. If your photos are in the Pictures or another folder, click the arrow side by side to Folders, then select a binder.
  
  To add a folder, click the Add together button , navigate to and select the folder, then click Choose.
  
  If your photos aren't shown, they might not be in the expected file format—JPEG, PICT, TIFF, PNG, or HEIC. Use Preview to open your photos and save them in one of the formats. If your photos are shown but expect fuzzy, endeavor using larger ones, such as 1024 x 768 pixels.
On the right, click a movie (if the motion-picture show has a download icon, click the icon) or photo to use it as your desktop picture. Attempt dissimilar ones until you detect the ane you like best.

If you decide not to use a downloaded picture and want to delete it from your Mac, Control-click the picture, so choose Remove Download.

If you lot use one of your photos, you can cull to accept it fill up the screen, exist centered, or otherwise bundled.

For some folders, you can evidence all of the pictures in the binder. Select "Change moving-picture show," then choose how often to change it, such as every hour. The pictures are shown based on their order in the folder, or you tin can choose to show them in a random guild.

To quickly use a photo you lot have in the Photos app, open Photos, select the photo, click the Share push in the Photos toolbar, then cull Ready Desktop Moving picture.

You can utilize a picture you detect on the web as your desktop film. Control-click the image in the browser window, and then select Use Image as Desktop Pic.