Dynamic Backgrounds For Mac Os Mojave

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I admit: I'm fascinated by Apple's new Dynamic Desktop feature, which became widely available with the launch of macOS Mojave last week. There's just something magical about a wallpaper that shows a fixed-point view that changes as your day goes by.

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Premium Dynamic Desktops for macOS Catalina & Mojave We’re now offering 32 of our wallpapers for purchase in macOS Dynamic Desktop format. Purchase all of the wallpapers in a bundle for the best value. All wallpapers contain 16 images at full 5K (5120x2880) resolution with no watermarks. Jun 14, 2018 Dynamic wallpapers are a new feature introduced in the newest version of macOS; Mojave. This feature changes the wallpaper throughout the day. The image itself remains the same however there are variations of it available that show a different time of day.

However, Apple only offers two Dynamic Desktop wallpapers by default: One a beautiful photo of the Mojave desert, and the other a somewhat bland, ever-changing color gradient.

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If that's not enough for you, there's a solution: A couple of them, in fact.

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Oct 17, 2018 For creating your custom dynamic wallpapers for macOS Mojave, we will take the help of a third-party app called Dynaper. The app is available on the Mac App Store, you can click on the link to install it on your device. Once you have installed the app, follow the steps to create your own dynamic wallpaper. Oct 15, 2018  Dynamic Backgrounds MacOS Mojave also offers two new dynamic background images, which change considerably during the day and can be configured in System Preferences. One of the backgrounds is represented by a dune in the Mojave Desert, while the other visualizes color during different times of day.

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Back in June, developer Marcin Czachurski discovered that Apple's dynamic wallpapers are a bunch of images and a short text file describing certain properties of the image, such as altitude and azimuth (which pinpoint the position of the Sun when the image was taken).

With this knowledge, you can create a dynamic wallpaper yourself. The technical aspects of it, described here, aren't too complicated, and Czachurski even created a small command line app that makes it easier. But taking a bunch of high-quality photographs — especially if you want to do a fixed view of the same place at different times in the day — will likely be a bit much for most people.

Luckily, some crafty folks have already created dynamic wallpapers using this method. Czachurski himself shared a beautiful Google Earth-based wallpaper — you can find it here. And people on Reddit have shared their creations or findings here.

Dynamic wallpapers aren't simple images; they come in the form of .heic files. To install them, first set your wallpaper to any dynamic wallpaper in Mojave. Then just right click on the .heic file and choose 'Set Desktop Picture.' The wallpaper should show up and continue to dynamically change as your day goes on. To make things a little easier, you can also move the .heic files to the /Library/Desktop Pictures folders, and Mojave will then list them as options when you go to Settings — Destkop & Screen Saver. Beware, though, that if the files aren't properly constructed, things can get messy; for example, Apple might not show the correct icons for these new dynamic backgrounds.

There's an even easier solution. An app called 24 Hour Wallpaper, available on Apple's App Store offers a total of 58 wallpapers. Some of these have a fixed view, while some are simply a mix of different images related to the same topic, but they all look pretty good. The app is compatible with macOS Mojave but it also works on older macOS versions, down to macOS 11.11. The catch is that the app is not free; it costs $6.99.

I've tested the app and it has a surprising amount of options, including the ability to choose any location in the world, customize sunrise and sunset times and set a 'playlist' that continuously changes your dynamic wallpaper to a different set of images at an interval of your choosing. You can set different wallpapers on different displays as well — though I haven't found an option to set a different wallpaper for each virtual desktop.

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There's even an option to let macOS do the work, which disables most of the extra features and essentially just sets a new dynamic wallpaper while the app resides in the background as a simple wallpaper gallery.

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Hopefully, someone will create a repository of dynamic wallpapers down the road and finding these will be as easy as finding a regular wallpaper. For now, though, any of the methods described above should quench your thirst for dynamic desktop goodness.