One option to customise your Mac past merely the desktop wallpaper background image is to customise your lock display screen wallpaper, which is what exhibits up while you both sign off and go to log again into the Mac, wake from display screen saver, or restart a Mac.
You will have observed by now that while you change your desktop wallpaper on the Mac, the login display screen wallpaper modifications robotically to replicate that wallpaper too. Some customers could also be thrilled with that degree of customization alone, but it surely seems you may truly set these as two completely different photographs for those who’d wish to.
The process to vary the login display screen wallpaper is completely different in MacOS Ventura, so we’re going to cowl how one can customise your Mac login display screen background picture in Ventura 13 and newer.
How one can Set a Completely different Lock Display screen Wallpaper on MacOS Ventura
Need to have a special wallpaper as your lock display screen wallpaper, out of your desktop wallpaper? That’s fairly straightforward, right here’s what you’ll need to do:
- Find the photograph or picture you need to use because the lock display screen wallpaper on the Mac and open it in Preview
- Pull down the File menu and select “Export”, naming the file “lockscreen.png” and selecting PNG because the file sort, and saving this lockscreen.png file someplace apparent just like the Desktop *
- Now go to the Finder on Mac
- Pull down the “Go” menu and choose Go To Folder, or hit Command+Shift+G to convey up Go To Folder
- Enter the next listing path:
- On this listing you’ll discover a hexadecimal folder UUID title, one thing like “84C3B4814B3CA826140DB1”, open that listing and you must discover a ‘lockscreen.png’ file right here already
- Drag and drop the lockscreen.png file you created in step 2 into this folder, overwriting the prevailing lockscreen.png file within the course of – you might must authenticate with Contact ID or an admin login to do that
- Now while you current to the lock display screen and go to login via Quick Consumer Switching, display screen saver, or the boot display screen, you’ll discover the brand new personalized wallpaper on the lock display screen of the Mac
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This lock display screen customization will persist till you alter the wallpaper on the Mac via System Settings, after which will probably be overwritten once more by that very same picture. You’ll be able to then merely run via the steps above to vary the lock display screen PNG file once more if desired, nonetheless.
You’ll be able to go together with any wallpaper picture you’d like, right here’s one displaying the default wallpaper in MacOS Ventura:
And right here’s a customized lock display screen wallpaper that’s completely different from the desktop image wallpaper:
Going via these steps permits you to have completely different photographs because the lock display screen / login display screen wallpaper, and the desktop wallpaper, on the Mac. That is just like how one can set completely different wallpaper on the iPhone House Display screen and Lock Display screen (and that works the identical on iPad too). It’s a enjoyable sufficient customization that it’s possible that Apple will ultimately introduce a local potential to do that immediately in System Settings the place you alter the wallpaper on the most recent macOS variations.
Earlier variations of MacOS and Mac OS X supplied methods to vary the login display screen wallpaper too, however the file names had been completely different (like com.apple.desktop.admin.png as an alternative of merely ‘lockscreen.png’), as had been the listing paths, and the process itself. When you’re curious, you may see the way it labored up till lately with this text, however that method doesn’t work with macOS Ventura or newer.
* You too can convert the picture to PNG with a Fast Motion, with Preview, or your methodology of alternative. The picture file have to be a PNG, and it ought to be the dimensions of your display screen decision or bigger.
Do you wish to customise your lock display screen wallpaper on the Mac? Do you may have one other method to setting completely different wallpapers for the lock display screen and desktop background on Mac? Tell us your experiences within the feedback.
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