How to get live wallpapers on a Mac
The Aerial films are built in, but the desktop moves only around login and unlock. How to keep one playing, where the films the picker leaves out are, and why your own video is a different job.
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Mac wallpaper guides.
How to change one, what size it needs, and where the built-in films are.
Dynamic wallpapers on a Mac
Three different things get called a dynamic wallpaper and only one of them is built-in video. Which is which, how to switch one on, and what it costs the battery.
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How to change the wallpaper on a Mac
System Settings, your own pictures, one wallpaper per display, and the Aerial films the pane leaves out.
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MacBook wallpaper size
The exact pixel size for every current Mac, why the desktop reports half of it, and what one file has to be to cover a whole desk.
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Aerial screen saver vs Skywall
The open-source screen saver plays the same films. Where the two differ, and when the desktop version makes sense.
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Wallpaper Engine for Mac
It is a Windows app and there has never been a Mac build. What macOS does instead, and why the footage is already built in.
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