South Africa
Traveling northeast over the Ethiopian Highlands. A 4K Aerial film built into macOS — Skywall plays it as your wallpaper, on every display, without re-encoding a frame.
- Collection
- Earth from space
- Pass
- South Africa to North Asia
- Source
- 4K SDR master, built into macOS
- File
- 512 MB
- In System Settings
- Not listed
- Plays on
- The desktop, every display
What the camera passes.
- Traveling northeast over the Ethiopian Highlands
- Traveling over the Red Sea into the Arabian Peninsula
- Heading northeast over the Arabian Peninsula
- Over the Arabian Peninsula moving toward Iran
- Over the Arabian Peninsula approaching Iran
- Approaching the coast of Iran with the Zagros Mountains beyond
- Over the Zagros Mountains in Iran
- Over the Dasht-e Lut desert in Iran
- Moving toward Turkmenistan and the Garagum desert
- The Amu Darya River and the Pamir-Alay Mountains in central Asia
- The Pamir-Alay Mountains and the Fergana Valley in central Asia
- Heading into southeastern Kazakhstan from Kyrgyzstan
- Traveling north over Kazakhstan
- Over the Altai Mountains moving into Mongolia
Why the Wallpaper pane hides it.
The Wallpaper pane in System Settings never offers this one, though the system catalogue lists it and the 512 MB master sits on the same servers as the rest. Skywall lists it like any other.
How to set South Africa as your wallpaper.
- Install Skywall and open it from the menu bar.
- Find it under Earth from space.
- 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.
- 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.
