Macbook: How to CHANGE desktop background picture!

Change MACBOOK wallpaper background: how to get different desktop picture!

Whether you're on a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or Mac Studio, I’ll show you the two easiest ways to change your desktop wallpaper. 

Especially if a macOS update replaced your beautiful desktop picture  with a "depressing forest"! 

We’ll explore Apple’s stunning Dynamic Wallpapers and Moving Aerials (including how to find that sneaky download button!), and I’ll demonstrate the lightning-fast way to set any personal photo as your desktop background with just two clicks. Perfect for beginners or anyone switching from Windows to Mac. Also how to have the same background image on multiple displays.

Macbook: How to CHANGE desktop background picture!



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How do you change the desktop background wallpaper of your Apple Mac, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air or Studio? I've just had a software update and it's changed my desktop background to this monstrosity. It used to look gorgeous with gentle rolling fields, which I loved. But now it's this depressing forest where bad things happen. What's behind that trunk? I'm more used to using PC Windows, so this is new to me. But there are a couple of ways to change the MacBook background. Stick with it because there are a few tips coming up that helped me. To change your MacBook desktop, first go to system settings, this cog icon here, or it's in Launchpad. Look for system settings. Or we can right click or double tap anywhere on the blank desktop and choose this option here, change wallpaper. This method is the longest way to do this, but it does show all our options. On the left hand sidebar, scroll down to wallpaper. Click on that tab. And here is the main control center for how our desktop looks. At the top, we have add photo or add folder or album. This is great if you want to use your own photos. For the backgrounds made by Apple, we can use these shelves below. We've got dynamic wallpapers that change light throughout the day, light in the morning, dark at night, and the moving backgrounds, landscape, city, underwater, and earth. By the way, if you see a little down arrow next to the title, you need to click it once to download the video. So, if I click on it here, you can see the download button. All the other backgrounds start instantly when you click on them. If you want to shake things up on your Mac, use shuffle aerials. That shows us something new each time. And at the bottom here, we can have a solid color for our background. Let's try pink. That's probably too much even for me. I'll show you the quick way to do this. But by the way, let's go back to the top. The toggle that says show on all spaces means you can have your desktop picture everywhere if you use multiple desktops or spaces. The second method to do this easily without digging through all your settings. Find any image file on your MacBook. I've got a folder and a picture right here. Click on it or two finger tap on the trackpad of your MacBook. Then go down to the bottom of the menu and choose set desktop picture. Whoa. I definitely do not want this one. So, let's go back to wallpaper for the picture I actually really want that shows the hills... Sonoma horizon. And I'll click on show as screen saver and all spaces. Congratulations, no more depressing forest. Thanks for hitting the thumbs up button and tell me in the comments if you prefer the moving landscapes or your own photos. And right here are all my other MacBook tips and tricks for YouTube creators.

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