How To Change Background On Mac From Internet

You lot can alter the picture that's displayed on your desktop. Choose from a variety of pictures or colors provided past Apple, or use your ain photos.

Tip: You can drag an paradigm from your desktop or a binder onto the thumbnail at the acme of the pane to use the paradigm every bit your desktop picture.

On your Mac, cull Apple menu > System Preferences, click Desktop & Screen Saver , then click Desktop.

Open up the Desktop pane for me
On the left, browse available pictures and colors:
- Pictures and colors from Apple: Click the arrow next to Apple, so select a folder. To download a moving-picture show (indicated past the download icon ), you must be connected to the internet.
  
  Dynamic and Light and Nighttime desktop pictures automatically alter throughout the course of the day based on your current location. If Location Services is turned off in Privacy preferences, the film changes based on the fourth dimension zone specified in Date & Time preferences.
  
  Some pictures provide still images then the picture doesn't distract from the desktop appearance. For example, if you lot chose the dark appearance during macOS setup, the desktop picture is set to a dark yet paradigm. To utilise or stop using a however prototype (if available), click the pop-up carte next to the thumbnail at the top of the pane, and then choose an selection.
- Your photos: Click the pointer next to Photos. If your photos are in the Pictures or some other folder, click the arrow side by side to Folders, then select a folder.
  
  To add a folder, click the Add push button , navigate to and select the folder, then click Cull.
  
  If your photos aren't shown, they might not exist in the expected file format—JPEG, PICT, TIFF, PNG, or HEIC. Use Preview to open your photos and salve them in one of the formats. If your photos are shown but look fuzzy, try using larger ones, such as 1024 x 768 pixels.
On the right, click a picture (if the picture has a download icon, click the icon) or photo to use information technology as your desktop picture. Effort unlike ones until y'all find the ane you like all-time.

If you decide not to use a downloaded picture show and want to delete information technology from your Mac, Control-click the picture, then cull Remove Download.

If you employ ane of your photos, you can choose to have it fill up the screen, be centered, or otherwise arranged.

For some folders, you lot tin can testify all of the pictures in the folder. Select "Change moving picture," so cull how ofttimes to modify information technology, such equally every hour. The pictures are shown based on their guild in the folder, or you can choose to evidence them in a random guild.

To quickly use a photo y'all have in the Photos app, open up Photos, select the photo, click the Share button in the Photos toolbar, then cull Set Desktop Picture.

You tin can apply a picture you find on the spider web every bit your desktop movie. Control-click the image in the browser window, and so select Use Image every bit Desktop Picture.