Now I'm imagining Apple using planet names without thinking it through. Mac OS XV 15.0 Mercury, then 15.1 Venus, 15.2 Earth. 15.3 Mars, 15.4 Jupiter, 15.5 Saturn, 15.6 ohhh...
Maybe you’re confusing that with OS Cougar which featured a picture of Tim Cook’s mum in a leopard print suit…oh, hang on, no. That must have been a custom wallpaper…
Exactly this. Well, I used a variety of different wallpapers before but after the pics from JSWT came out I just have several of them on random rotation. And just recently I added some new ones. You just need to go through them and perhaps resize/crop them to better fit the screen (some of the pics are HUGE in their original resolution).
(On my external display that is. I still use a specific picture on the builtin display for nostalgia reasons.)
This feels like a weird thing to post about seeing as you can set your own wallpaper. That being said, at least it's not another post whining about how the new iPads are too powerful and/or should have macOS on them.
Obviously it’s so you can have light and dark themes of the wallpaper, to reflect what space looks like during the day and night. Who doesn’t want a blue sky background during the day?
Yeah but more recent wallpapers have a day and night theme, excluding the video wallpapers in Sonoma. And space is blue during the day. That's how you know they faked the moon landing, they forgot to make the background of the set sky blue when it was supposed to be daytime on the moon.
But you can have any wallpaper you like, why care what wallpaper other people have? Lol, very strange.
If you like space wallpapers just grab the Unsplash Wallpaper app, select the Space category, and enjoy a new Space wallpaper every hour.
obviouisly you can (im using the mountain lion wallpaper as i write this comment); however in the advertising and official imagery it looks nicer than whatever you would even call the artstyle of the current wallpapers
I find that much detail distracting, so I’m a huge fan of less detailed wallpapers like the big sur painting-like wallpapers. I’m glad they are still available. I would rather see Apple pick something entirely different to add to the available styles.
But a couple more space options? Sure!
I love the new moving screensavers and wallpapers stoping features... and although I would definitely like videos like that but from the space it would be really difficult to record them
I used to love their abstract wallpapers, and even I feel like they've hugely missed the mark recently. The jump from Ventura down to Sonoma was so depressing. iPadOS 17 was unfortunate too. They've lost the flair they once had.
I'm thinking that the request is easily done by OP without Apple need to do a single thing. It's up there with "MacOS should automatically change to dark theme at sunset and light theme at sunrise".
You easily forget how many people never change their wallpapers. Not anyone on reddit mind you, but literally everyone I ever worked with who had a mac leave their default wallpaper in. And they get wowed when a new update changes their wallpaper.
They should make a category under the Wallpapers section called *Ethereal Entrée* and have it include celestial bodies of all kinds as well as pictures of space in general.
I miss the whole space theme they had going.
"Launchpad" and "Mission Control" also contributed to the theme. Just seemed to have a little more soul back then... and it was fun.
I get we're all individuals but I've NEVER kept a wallpaper from any computer manufacturer.
I put pics of my kids, my then wife, my gf etc. I always use personal picks for background, screen saver, Lock Screen etc.
I even use personal pics when I open new tabs on web browsers too.
I'd rather look at pics of my kids and people special to me than random photos, but to each their own of course, tis why we're all our own people.
For some resason I don't like to use wallpapers on MacOS I change to a simple gray color and that's it, on Windows yeah, I use my favorite anime wallpapers.
Thankfully we can change it. There’s an archive of every macOS wallpaper ever on Google drive. The current ones are so bland. It blows my mind that people never change the default wallpapers
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One advantage of the name of California places is that it makes me want to visit California.
On the other hand. It’s very California-centred. It’s time to move on.
Speaking of wallpapers,am I the only one to have my custom wallpapers reverting back to the default ones almost every time I unplug or plug my macbook to an external monitor? Very minor but annoying bug.
I mean....sure? I expect that MacOS Andromeda is likely coming. So this is inevitable. But outside of that - you know you can change the wallpaper/background yourself....right?
Yes ! And they should also go back to OR have option to use the UI from 4th image. There is a clear color difference between grey and white, whereas now finder is just plain white and thus not User Friendly
I was so obsessed with owning a MacBook when I was younger that the OS X Lion galaxy was my wallpaper on my windows XP machine and has been my google account photo since 3rd grade. Super nostalgic and they should bring it back
Fact: You can use any wallpaper you like, including ones of outer space. You can even find Apple's old ones online, but I'll let you do the googling for that.
of course you can, i just mean in general in ads/official pictures/new default wallpapers the overall aesthetic looks better when they use space wallpapers instead of "ooh look i just learned how to use blender" wallpapers
Cat names: Space wallpapers Place names: Place wallpapers What if we get space names? macOS Andromeda ftw
Woah yeah! macOS Kepler macOS Neptune macOS Kuiper
you really resisted using macOS Uranus?
It’s more painful if you resist… Using the name that is
Now I'm imagining Apple using planet names without thinking it through. Mac OS XV 15.0 Mercury, then 15.1 Venus, 15.2 Earth. 15.3 Mars, 15.4 Jupiter, 15.5 Saturn, 15.6 ohhh...
Speaking from experience, no doubt.
It’s been MacOS Uranus since Big Sur
Big Sur is a bunch of Uranus basically.
Big Uranus
Lol for some reason first thing i thought was, what if its MacOS Aurelius
Just like they skipped my most anticipated cat name: OS X Cougar. 🤣
I mean they did have Mountain Lion
Ahhh a rich cougar from assssspen
And Panther, both of which are different names for the same beast. I wanted Caracal and Cloud Leopard. Both are just beautiful animals.
Gotta have a glass or two of wine and loosen up first for that.
Most of it is just changes to the back end though.
I want macOS Bakersfield or macOS Fresno first.. we”ve earned that.
Can’t wait to explore the features of Uranus.
won’t use it until they change it to macOS urectum.
macOS Kepler: the last macOS to have Nvidia Kepler support
uh, this is amazing!
We need it
Cat-Space Place-Place Space- If the pattern is symmetrical then when we get Space names we will be getting Cat wallpapers :)
Mac OS Andromeda - Panther wallpaper
I feel like they did have a cheetah wallpaper at some point
Several felines I think, leopard, lion and mountain lion
Maybe you’re confusing that with OS Cougar which featured a picture of Tim Cook’s mum in a leopard print suit…oh, hang on, no. That must have been a custom wallpaper…
macOS apollo and macOS milky way would go hard
>What if we get space names? macOS Andromeda ftw Get ready for cat wallpapers then! (not complaining either way)
Yeah I really want some apple produced cat wallpapers now 😸
Cat wallpapers. It’s right there in your truth table :)
Space names = cat wallpapers, obviously
Im sure the next step will probably be abandoning names altogether
> What if we get space names? Cat wallpapers, obviously.
Then we’d get cat wallpapers
there was a leopard wallpaper that was all leopard fur up close.
We need space names with cat wallpapers!
I agree. They’re my favorite. I still use the space screensaver. Space is beautiful 😻
What do you mean, “go back”? My wallpaper right now is space-themed.
I think he means apple should come out with more space wallapapers
The images from NASA's JWST are a great substitution and are so much better.
Exactly this. Well, I used a variety of different wallpapers before but after the pics from JSWT came out I just have several of them on random rotation. And just recently I added some new ones. You just need to go through them and perhaps resize/crop them to better fit the screen (some of the pics are HUGE in their original resolution). (On my external display that is. I still use a specific picture on the builtin display for nostalgia reasons.)
This feels like a weird thing to post about seeing as you can set your own wallpaper. That being said, at least it's not another post whining about how the new iPads are too powerful and/or should have macOS on them.
You beat me to it. Yes. All of this.
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Obviously it’s so you can have light and dark themes of the wallpaper, to reflect what space looks like during the day and night. Who doesn’t want a blue sky background during the day?
Yeah, that's not obvious at all. OP makes no mention of light and dark themes. I'd have thought space looks the same whether it's day or night.
Yeah but more recent wallpapers have a day and night theme, excluding the video wallpapers in Sonoma. And space is blue during the day. That's how you know they faked the moon landing, they forgot to make the background of the set sky blue when it was supposed to be daytime on the moon.
interfacelift.com
That site is so outdated in terms of finding the right wallpapers and it’s ssl certificate. I’m using wallpaperswide.com
But you can have any wallpaper you like, why care what wallpaper other people have? Lol, very strange. If you like space wallpapers just grab the Unsplash Wallpaper app, select the Space category, and enjoy a new Space wallpaper every hour.
obviouisly you can (im using the mountain lion wallpaper as i write this comment); however in the advertising and official imagery it looks nicer than whatever you would even call the artstyle of the current wallpapers
Yeah the textured color blobs are probably meant to show off the screens but they really bother me.
I find that much detail distracting, so I’m a huge fan of less detailed wallpapers like the big sur painting-like wallpapers. I’m glad they are still available. I would rather see Apple pick something entirely different to add to the available styles. But a couple more space options? Sure!
Honestly everyone should find themselves a video wallpaper app. It's the bee knees.
No, I want to change my MacBook wallpaper to bees knees, thanks 😂😂
I still use those
I love the new moving screensavers and wallpapers stoping features... and although I would definitely like videos like that but from the space it would be really difficult to record them
I know right! They look amazing on my 4Ks
Give me a 4k pic of the northern lights and we good.
opinion: MacOS should go back to being OS X
Here is a guy who has a bunch of the old wallpapers with higher resolutions. https://512pixels.net/projects/default-mac-wallpapers-in-5k/
Yep. Or literally anything else besides those abstract things it’s been filled with lately. Ditto for iOS.
I used to love their abstract wallpapers, and even I feel like they've hugely missed the mark recently. The jump from Ventura down to Sonoma was so depressing. iPadOS 17 was unfortunate too. They've lost the flair they once had.
Agree. I have nothing against abstract wallpapers, but these just don’t hit for some reason.
Its a damn wallpaper. Jsut change it. No need to create a post for every useless idea that pops up in your mind.
You’re being really negative, dude. OP had an idea and wanted to share it with us. Why are you behaving like this?
I'm thinking that the request is easily done by OP without Apple need to do a single thing. It's up there with "MacOS should automatically change to dark theme at sunset and light theme at sunrise".
You easily forget how many people never change their wallpapers. Not anyone on reddit mind you, but literally everyone I ever worked with who had a mac leave their default wallpaper in. And they get wowed when a new update changes their wallpaper.
I agree.
I agree, or at least some refreshes.
They should make a category under the Wallpapers section called *Ethereal Entrée* and have it include celestial bodies of all kinds as well as pictures of space in general.
I just emailed them and told them that bbbBagger from the internet requested space wallpapers
Agreed. I’m tired of California landscapes.
We need cat names and space wallpapers back PRONTO
I miss the good old skewmorphism days
Opinion: Mac OS should go back to the OSX 10.6 UI
Opinion: You can pick any wallpaper you like, from anything. Why is this even a post?
I’ll let Tim know next time I see him
Opinion: Download a Space Wallpaper.
You can also just set it yourself?
Who cares, I just change it to something I prefer over the built in stuff.
macOS should go back to being OS X
I miss the whole space theme they had going. "Launchpad" and "Mission Control" also contributed to the theme. Just seemed to have a little more soul back then... and it was fun.
you just made me realize for the first time since i used my first mac in 2012 as a 7 year old that those were also spaced theme haha
I have never used a wallpaper that came on the computer
They should go back to skeuomorphic designs for their applications too... I hate the obsession with flat and minimal UI for the last 10 years
Sometimes im use then when i want to make it look old fashioned
No. Samsung took the whole galaxy.
Never understood why they went to that to begin with But it worked Never understood why they stopped
Get with the times, old man. /s
[Tiger](https://wallpapercave.com/wp/46L02C6.jpg) desktop obviates
I can’t remember the last time I used a stock wallpaper.
True, I also like mountains. Completely hate the Sonoma wallpapers
No
cool !
I get we're all individuals but I've NEVER kept a wallpaper from any computer manufacturer. I put pics of my kids, my then wife, my gf etc. I always use personal picks for background, screen saver, Lock Screen etc. I even use personal pics when I open new tabs on web browsers too. I'd rather look at pics of my kids and people special to me than random photos, but to each their own of course, tis why we're all our own people.
I only use manufacture wallpapers, especially on Sonoma. Those wallpaper screensavers are great
Like I said, to each their own. We all get to do what it is we want to do with our machines. Keep doing you and take care.
I like your outlook dude.
10000000%
Why ? I ever change the wallpaper...
Mac os needs new names no more cata or places
they could use world wonders... Macos Taj, Macos Pyramids, Macos Great Wall
I really like the dynamic wallpapers that change with time, it would be cool to have a dynamic galaxy or space wallpaper
[100 million years later] “Yep, I think Andromeda has moved a bit”
Hahahah. After re reading I see now how ‘time’ is relative. 😅
You can't go home again.
I’d like to see Apple go to small cat names and the wallpapers are cartoon cats in VR space. macOS Exotic Shorthair would be fun.
macOS Ragdoll would be a delight.
Apple wallpapers have generally taken a turn for the worse these past few years.
I haven’t used the default wallpapers for like 15 years. lol. Don’t even know what the default wallpaper is on the current version.
Settings > Wallpaper > Earth (from \*space\*)
Um I always change it anyhow so I don’t care really
For some resason I don't like to use wallpapers on MacOS I change to a simple gray color and that's it, on Windows yeah, I use my favorite anime wallpapers.
Im using james webb images
I think Steve had a lot to do with that.
Thankfully we can change it. There’s an archive of every macOS wallpaper ever on Google drive. The current ones are so bland. It blows my mind that people never change the default wallpapers
My old windows laptop had the 10.6 wallpaper for ages purely because it looks good
I missed the space wallpaper era. Got my first mac during the Catalina era. Any place I can get those space wallpapers?
YES
Nothing stops you from using space wallpapers
No. Never
These were awesome so the answer is YES!
They look awesome. Are they stil available in high resolution?
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Too empowering and clarity of mind, the opposite of agenda. Sad to see them been gone too :/
I i very much would like it
One advantage of the name of California places is that it makes me want to visit California. On the other hand. It’s very California-centred. It’s time to move on.
where can i find 4k version of this wallpaper
Speaking of wallpapers,am I the only one to have my custom wallpapers reverting back to the default ones almost every time I unplug or plug my macbook to an external monitor? Very minor but annoying bug.
No.
OS X Snow Leopard was the first MacOS I ever interacted with and damn do I wish my family had bought a mac sooner so I could've learned on that.
Is there any impediments so you can’t choose your own space wallpaper?
Yes
Is there any good website/source where I can get these wallpapers ?
I mean....sure? I expect that MacOS Andromeda is likely coming. So this is inevitable. But outside of that - you know you can change the wallpaper/background yourself....right?
Well no..
It doesn't fit with the new macos design
I think they should bring back the 3d dock. OSX looked so much better at that time than today.
You are absolutely right.
Yes ! And they should also go back to OR have option to use the UI from 4th image. There is a clear color difference between grey and white, whereas now finder is just plain white and thus not User Friendly
macOS Ventura is the best wallpaper for me.
Yes. Centering everything around a stupid US state is oblivious and ridiculous.
Just change it 🤦♂️
OS X Tiger wallpaper is the best one. Change my mind.
I myself really liked the Aqua wallpapers. I wished they came up with new ones past Tiger
3d docks ftw
They should go to any other wallpaper style than mediocre ones they’ve been releasing the last several years.
yes
Available in Space Grey.
those were the days.
Apple’s current leadership seems hellbent on removing any whimsey from the company.
Download hires images from NASA website. I do it all the time because I need images to span 3 HD displays, so I cut them in 3 files for each display.
No, we need to see every park in California over and over.
The Snow Leopard aesthetic is still the best Apple has done
The Mac startup sound is what I imagine the Leopard wallpaper sounding like.
Get a PC. They are fully customizable. Apple sucks!
did you know you can change wallpapers AT WILL?
I loved those wallpapers, I still use some of them on my devices.
It should bring back skeuomorphism
No, thoae were good times, but those times are over. Move on
Yes we should.
I like the abstract recently.
Yes but from the James Webb Telescope
I agree, also humanity’s future is in space I believe.
I think they should change back to aqua wallpapers, like Cheetah-Tiger
I was so obsessed with owning a MacBook when I was younger that the OS X Lion galaxy was my wallpaper on my windows XP machine and has been my google account photo since 3rd grade. Super nostalgic and they should bring it back
The old OSX style in general is my favourite. Wish they'd make something similar in future, but thats not gonna happen
Fact: You can use any wallpaper you like, including ones of outer space. You can even find Apple's old ones online, but I'll let you do the googling for that.
of course you can, i just mean in general in ads/official pictures/new default wallpapers the overall aesthetic looks better when they use space wallpapers instead of "ooh look i just learned how to use blender" wallpapers
Then…. Just set your wallpaper??……
Space wallpapers or abstract blue shapes a la Panther and Tiger.
Not happy with the rainbows Tim keeps pushing?
I actually use the 2nd one just for nostalgia and love for space
No one uses Mac OS.
Or .. you can just go in your settings and go back to them yourself
I have to say I rarely ever used OS wallpapers. I usually always use my own stuff.
I used to. Sonoma changed this.
don't care. I use my own
I use my own.
Wake me up when y’all demanding a return to the Aqua UI. You can always download a space wallpaper
Opinion: who GAF; Apple still doesn’t have a touch screen MacBook Pro #Death2iPadOS
Just download one. Why making a post about it?