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neikees

macrumors newbie
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Sep 7, 2023
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hi,

Saw a new option in the wallpaper shuffle option.

Attached the screenshot.... anyone know what is continuously means ?

thanks.
 

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chadlavi

macrumors newbie
Sep 8, 2023
1
0
Wondering the same thing. I chose it for the "Shuffle landscape aerials" wallpaper and it hasn't changed my wallpaper in the last couple hours. So either it's some interval that's less than 12h but more than a few, or it's broken currently (or I guess it could be both, yet to see).
 

phoenix-mac-user

macrumors regular
Sep 21, 2016
130
100
I was searching and found this thread on what appears to be a big issue for me. I'm using an LG OLED as my primary monitor and used to rotate through wallpapers every 5 minutes to prevent burn in and it appears this is no longer available to me.

Was hoping "Continuously" would work as the 5 minute (or even 20/30 minutes).

Really frustrating that they appear to have taken away the feature to rotate through desktop backgrounds at anything less than 12 hours (hope 12 hours works!).
 

gmanist1000

macrumors 68030
Sep 22, 2009
2,867
895
It doesn't do a dang thing. Been over 24 hours since I installed Sonoma and installed all the wallpapers... it hasn't changed.... switched to 12 hours for now...
 

Steve Ballmer

macrumors 6502
Oct 2, 2009
405
133
Redmond, WA
It presumably rotates more often than every 12 hours. Whether it's supposed to be every hour, every time you log in, I don't know. Sounds like it's not working at the moment. Will presumably be fixed.
 

SamboSoul

macrumors member
Nov 4, 2020
88
108
What I wonder... do the aerial wallpapers support night mode? So, if I sit down in front of my Mac after sunset, is there a dark/night screensaver playing that then transitions into a dark wallpaper?
 

Steve Ballmer

macrumors 6502
Oct 2, 2009
405
133
Redmond, WA
What I wonder... do the aerial wallpapers support night mode? So, if I sit down in front of my Mac after sunset, is there a dark/night screensaver playing that then transitions into a dark wallpaper?
No, they aren't dynamic. They are videos that play and ignore Light/Dark Mode. Only the dynamic wallpapers will account for Light/Dark Mode.
 

mtwiggins

macrumors member
Sep 9, 2016
63
33
US
Was having this issue, I manually clicked on several of the wallpapers to download them individually and now they will shuffle between the ones that are downloaded.
 

phoenix-mac-user

macrumors regular
Sep 21, 2016
130
100
I have all 135 of them downloaded and it still doesn't work for me. 😥

It seems like 12 hours works because when I woke up it was using another one but Continuously does nothing that I can see.
 

sai_nh

macrumors newbie
Sep 28, 2023
3
1
I found out that the wallpapers are changed when the screensaver is open and changed continuously automatically.
 

phoenix-mac-user

macrumors regular
Sep 21, 2016
130
100
I found out that the wallpapers are changed when the screensaver is open and changed continuously automatically.
Can you elaborate on this? I don't see any change with continuously.

I have it cycling through all the wallpapers it was on the overview of the Grand Canyon and it went to screen saver of that and it has been on that for most of the day.

Do you see something different when using continuously?
 

sai_nh

macrumors newbie
Sep 28, 2023
3
1
Can you elaborate on this? I don't see any change with continuously.

I have it cycling through all the wallpapers it was on the overview of the Grand Canyon and it went to screen saver of that and it has been on that for most of the day.

Do you see something different when using continuously?
I just set the settings for both wallpapers and screensavers to "shuffle all" and "continuously", then it just works properly when the screensaver is on automatically and the lock screen appears.

but I realized that the wallpaper can't change continuously itself, the screensavers only can rotate. When u find out that changing the screensaver, your wallpaper also will be changed because we set the same for both of them.
 
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menchyk

macrumors newbie
Oct 4, 2023
1
0
I was searching and found this thread on what appears to be a big issue for me. I'm using an LG OLED as my primary monitor and used to rotate through wallpapers every 5 minutes to prevent burn in and it appears this is no longer available to me.

Was hoping "Continuously" would work as the 5 minute (or even 20/30 minutes).

Really frustrating that they appear to have taken away the feature to rotate through desktop backgrounds at anything less than 12 hours (hope 12 hours works!).
Similar situation here.

I started using an app called 24 Hour Wallpaper, and it's been fantastic!
 

Limpette

Suspended
Sep 25, 2023
9
24
Anyone actually figured this out yet? It appears to do nothing for me, wallpaper never changes.
 

macuros

macrumors member
Jul 11, 2020
84
56
It is actually working when you log out and then log back in. The wallpaper is changed, but I rarely log out. I always lock.
 

macuros

macrumors member
Jul 11, 2020
84
56
Ok, now it works. Not sure why actually. I am sharing my settings here:

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After that, I set the screen saver like this:

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And I set the screen saver timer to 3 minutes (before I had it on Never):

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With these settings, my continuously Shuffle All works! The wallpaper is changing almost hourly. Or after unlocking. It's too new and I didn't have the time to figure it out completely. But for some reason, it is working now.
 

Jaisah

macrumors member
Jul 29, 2020
47
43
hi,

Saw a new option in the wallpaper shuffle option.

Attached the screenshot.... anyone know what is continuously means ?

thanks.
If you go into the screensaver where the wallpaper is moving, once it gets to the end of that "video" it will move onto the next i.e. it doesn't repeat the same video it goes onto the next one.
 
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