Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. As you can see, I have collected them all here.
- Download macOS Mojave Beautiful Day & Night Wallpaper Ali Nazarii 1 Comment Apple’s macOS Mojave brings the most exciting features including a Dark Mode, Stacks for organizing your desktop files, and a twin of beautiful Dynamic Desktop wallpaper that turns out automatically during the day and night.
- Jul 13, 2018 Night Shift requires macOS Sierra 10.12.4 and one of these Mac computers, using the built-in display or the displays listed: MacBook models from early 2015 or later MacBook Air models from mid 2012 or later.
Bluestacks 4 for el capitan. While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K displays.
Major props to the world-class designer who does all the art of Relay FM, the mysterious @forgottentowel, for upscaling some of these for modern screens.
Jan 03, 2018 How to Fix Night Shift Stuck Enabled in Mac OS. Even with this rare and minor nuisance I personally recommend using and enabling Night Shift on the Mac, setting a custom schedule or using from sunset to sunrise, with the warmest setting possible, seems to have the best results for eye fatigue and theoretical sleep improvement, but you can use it however you’d like. Mar 10, 2019 Day Night for macOS is a desktop app that shows you how much time left in percentage. You can keep track of today, month and year time in percentage. Day Night have awake mode, sleep mode and changes the theme automatically according to the real time.
If you want to see detailed screenshots of every release of OS X, click here.
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10.0 Cheetah & 10.1 Puma
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The first two releases of Mac OS X shared the same wallpaper. The sweeping blue arcs and curves helped set the tone of the new Aqua interface.
10.2 Jaguar
Jaguar took the same Aqua-inspired theme but added some depth and motion to things. In my head, the trails streaking across the screen were from a set of comets.
10.3 Panther
While Panther inflicted Macs everywhere with Brushed Metal, its wallpaper stayed on brand, refreshing the original 10.0 image.
10.4 Tiger
Many consider Tiger to be the best “classic” version of Mac OS X. While that may or may not be true, it has my favorite Aqua-inspired wallpaper.
10.5 Leopard
Complete with a revised, unified user interface and shiny new Dock, 10.5 broke the Aqua mold. As such, Leopard was the first version of OS X to break from the Aqua-themed wallpaper. It ushered in the “space era” of OS X wallpapers, which was used heavily in the new Time Machine interface as well.
10.6 Snow Leopard
The “no new features” mantra for Snow Leopard didn’t ban a new wallpaper, thankfully. This starscape is still one of my favorites.
10.7 Lion
Lion kept up the space theme, this time showing off the Andromeda galaxy. The space nerd in me likes the idea, but the execution of this one leaves dead-last on my list of favorites.
10.8 Mountain Lion
Just like Snow Leopard before it, with Mountain Lion, Apple opted to clean up and revise the existing theme as opposed to changing directions for what would be a less-impactful release of OS X.
10.9 Mavericks
Mavericks marked the beginning of Apple’s “California location” naming scheme for Mac releases. The wave depicted looks as intimidating as the ones in the famous surfing location.
10.10 Yosemite
Yosemite brought another UI refresh to the Mac, making things flatter and more modern. The wallpaper ushered in a new era based on … well … mountains.
10.11 El Capitan
Named after a breathtaking spot in Yosemite National Park, El Capitan was a clean-up year after 10.10.
10.12 Sierra
More mountains.
10.13 High Sierra
Even more mountains.
10.14 Mojave
No more mountains! Mojave brought a new system-wide Dark Mode, and the OS shipped with two versions of its default wallpaper to match. Users could even have macOS slowly fade between the two background images over the course of the day.
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10.15 Catalina
macOS Catalina brought big changes to the Mac, including the ability to run iPad apps natively, opening the platform up to a much larger number of developers than ever before. Catalina shipped with multiple variants of its default wallpaper, and the ability to shift between them as time progresses throughout the day:
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macOS Big Sur
This version of macOS is such a big deal, Apple changed the version number to 11.0. It will be the OS that brings support for Apple Silicon-powered Macs, and features a brand new design.
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macOS’s Night Shift is a feature brought over from iOS starting with macOS High Sierra. It helps you reduce the amount of blue light you’re exposed to during the evening by shifting the display of your Mac to a more yellow tone.
The idea behind Night Shift is that, by making colors warmer, it won’t disrupt your body’s circadian rhythm, or the body clock that controls them, at least to the same degree. This can be useful if you use your Mac right up to bedtime. I imagine most of us don’t, but it’s a nice feature to have. And the iOS/iPadOS version of Night Shift is probably even more useful as those are devices folks are most likely to use right up to bedtime — or even in bed.
To implement Night Shift in macOS, here’s how:
1. Open the System Preferences app.
2. Click Displays.
3. Select Night Shift.
You can turn Night Shift on or off.
You can set it to come on from sunset to sunrise — or you can use the Customize options to implement it for the hours of your choosing.
You can also adjust the color temperature via a slider. Warmer settings may affect the appearance of some onscreen motion. To control Night Shift manually.
Day Night Macos
- If Night Shift is off, select the checkbox to turn Night Shift on until 7 a.m. If you’re using a schedule, Night Shift automatically turns off at the scheduled time.
- If Night Shift is on, deselect the checkbox to turn Night Shift off. If you’re using a schedule, Night Shift turns on again at the scheduled time.
Drag the slider to make the color temperature more or less warm when Night Shift is on. Warmer color temperatures show more yellow and less blue.
Color temperature is a way to describe the light appearance provided by a light source. At the lower end of the scale, from 2000K to 3000K, the light produced is called “warm white” and ranges from orange to yellow-white in appearance.
Color temperatures between 3100K and 4500K are referred to as “cool.”
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