Prevent your Mac from automatically changing wallpaper

It’s annoying when your Mac decides “I don’t want this photo anymore” and automatically restores the wallpaper to the system default. Luckily, there are easy ways to prevent your OS from becoming rogue.

Why is macOS reverting my wallpaper?

This issue is due to the way macOS remembers which photo to use as wallpaper. Very annoying. Unless your photos are completely downloaded to your Mac and saved where your OS works, your photos may be lost the next time you restart your computer.

A common problem is As outlined in this Reddit threadis when you select a desktop image from the Photos app while using iCloud Photo Library. By default, iCloud Photo Library optimizes the images you store on your Mac. In other words, avoid saving full-resolution copies to disk when you don’t need them. While this is an effective strategy for freeing up storage space on your Mac, it does mean that photos are not a reliable desktop image option. If photos are lost on Mac, macOS will not jump into iCloud Photo Library to retrieve them. In other words, you should replace your desktop image with the default.

However, this is not the only reason for problems. macOS can lose track of your photos if they are not in the folder where you normally get your desktop images.So right click on the desktop image and[デスクトップ ピクチャの設定]If you select , you may lose your desktop image. If you move the image later or something “short circuits” in macOS, you will not be able to see the image.

How to prevent your Mac wallpaper from automatically changing

The best thing to do for all desktop images is to save selected photos to[ピクチャ]to move to a folder. It’s the Pictures folder in the Finder sidebar, not the Photos app. This is a trusted folder that macOS can track to remember desktop images. If you’re using photos from the Photos app, export them to the Photos app in the highest possible quality.

From there, open System Preferences> Desktop & ScreensaverClick[フォルダ]Expand the dropdown and select the desired image.This method is more reliable than dragging the image to the wallpaper preview and right-clicking the image[壁紙として設定]is better than choosing This is because you are telling macOS exactly where the files are located via System Preferences.

If the problem is simply macOS changing the wallpaper interval, but that’s a different setting.under desktop and screen saver, make sure “Change Image” is not enabled. This setting rotates the desktop image from every 5 minutes to once a day, or upon login or wake from sleep. Disabling this setting will permanently keep the one image of her you have chosen as your wallpaper.