Skywall

London Skyline

Approaching Tower Bridge on the River Thames. A 4K Aerial film built into macOS — Skywall plays it as your wallpaper, on every display, without re-encoding a frame.

Collection
Cityscapes
Location
London
Source
4K SDR master, built into macOS
File
392 MB
In System Settings
Not listed
Plays on
The desktop, every display
A still from London Skyline, an Aerial film

What the camera passes.

  1. Approaching Tower Bridge on the River Thames
  2. Following the River Thames
  3. South of the River Thames
  4. Crossing the River Thames

Why the Wallpaper pane hides it.

The Wallpaper pane in System Settings never offers this one, though the system catalogue lists it and the 392 MB master sits on the same servers as the rest. Skywall lists it like any other.

How to set London Skyline as your wallpaper.

  1. Install Skywall and open it from the menu bar.
  2. Find it under Cityscapes.
  3. Click the card. If the film is not on your disk yet, Skywall downloads it from the system’s own content servers into the folder macOS already uses.
  4. It plays on every display until you pick another one.

The film goes into the system’s own Aerials folder and stays there if you remove the app. Skywall has no servers of its own; nothing is uploaded anywhere.

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