3 Easy Ways to Change Mac Wallpaper

While MacBook does not offer as many customizations as its windows counterparts, users can still tweak their Mac’s overall look and feel. And one of the best ways to do so is to change the Mac wallpaper.

For many people, their Mac desktop background image reflects their personality and helps them stay motivated when working on their Mac. Moreover, if you are an artist, keeping your art as wallpaper is the best feeling ever.

So what are you waiting for? Let us have a detailed look at how you can change Mac wallpaper seamlessly.

How to change Mac Wallpaper

1. Drag the cursor towards the Apple logo in the top-left corner on the menu bar and select System Preferences from the drop-down menu.
   
2. Here, click on the Desktop and Screen Saver option.
   
3. Apple provides you with some stunning desktop images by default, and you can easily pick one based on your preferences.
   
4. If you are a minimalistic guy and prefer plain solid desktop backgrounds, click on the colours option in the left pane, right below the Desktop pictures option.
   
5. Additionally, if you wish to set a custom photo/image as a desktop picture, select the Photos option from the left pane. However, if you cannot find your image under the Photos section, click on the + icon and add your custom background.
6. Boom, using these steps, you can easily change Mac wallpaper.

Bonus Method to change Mac wallpaper

1. Navigate to the desktop on your Mac.
2. Here right-click on any blank space on the desktop and select Change Desktop Background option from the drop-down menu.
3. Once done, simply pick your image and set it as your preferred wallpaper.

How to Cycle through images automatically

Are you someone who gets bored of glaring at the same default every day and likes to change Mac wallpaper every now and then? If yes, you are in for a treat. Just like in Windows, you can cycle through various desktop wallpaper on Mac automatically, saving you the precious time of manually going through the settings app every single time.

1. Drag the cursor towards the Apple logo in the taskbar and select System Preferences from the drop-down list.
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2. Here, you will have two options- Desktop Backgrounds and Colours. What is the difference between them? Well, desktop backgrounds are basically stock wallpapers from Apple, and Colours are plain solid colors.
3. Now, let us focus back on cycling through them. Pick any one out of these two and enable the change picture option below all the images. In addition, you can also select the duration after which you want to change Mac wallpaper automatically.
   
4. Further, you can also enable the random order option if you wish to cycle through images randomly.

Left Mac on Idle? Set a Dope Screensaver using this method

Do you often leave your Mac idle in the office? If yes, why leave it on a plain blank screen when you can set a dope screen saver? Let us have a look.

1. Drag the cursor towards the Apple logo in the taskbar and select System Preferences from the drop-down list.
   
2. Here, click on the Desktop and Screen Saver option.
   
3. Now choose the Screen Saver option.
   
4. Once done, you will find a plethora of stunning screen saver options to choose from. On top of that, you get a host of customization options like showing screen saver with clock, adjusting the screensaver speed, its thickness and much more. You can also preview the screen saver once before finalizing it.

Change Mac Wallpaper with no trouble

Apple has kept the process to change desktop background on Mac pretty straightforward, and you can easily follow the steps we shared above and change Mac wallpaper with no trouble.

Let us know in the comments below if you found this article helpful and successfully changed the desktop background on Mac.

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