How to Get Live Wallpapers on Mac

Q: How to Get Live Wallpapers on Mac?

Step 1 - Go to System Settings > Wallpaper Step 2 - You will find a large library of backgrounds (landscape, underwater, land...) Those with the play icon are videos. Step 3 - Choose the one you like the most, it will take a few seconds for the video to download Step 4 - Activate the Show as a screensaver option

Would you like to give movement to your Mac desktop? If so, we show you how to put a video as wallpaper on your Mac. It looks simply exquisite!

Customizing the Mac to your liking is something we all love to do. Choose a wallpaper that we like, put useful widgets on the desktop, and put a video as the wallpaper on the Mac.

The Mac allows you to set a short video, also known as live wallpapers for Mac. For performance reasons, continually playing a video in the background would consume many resources you would need to work on your Mac.

How to Set up a Live Wallpaper on Mac

MacOS offers hundreds of videos and screensavers that you can use as wallpaper on your Mac. Here's what you need to do to turn a screensaver into a motion wallpaper, or video, on Mac.

Step 1 - Go to System Settings > Wallpaper
Step 2 - You will find a large library of backgrounds (landscape, underwater, land...) Those with the play icon are videos.
Step 3 - Choose the one you like the most, it will take a few seconds for the video to download
Step 4 - Activate the Show as a screensaver option

How Does a Live Wallpaper Look on Your Mac?

The video as wallpaper will play continuously while you are on the lock screen, and as soon as you unlock it, it will continue playing for a moment. Below, we leave you a screen recording of our own Mac so you can see perfectly how it works.

How to Get Live Wallpapers on Mac

To be able to enjoy this feature and set a video as wallpaper on Mac, you must have your Mac updated to macOS Sonoma. To do this, we leave you here how to do it, all the new features it brings, and if your Mac is compatible. You will love all its features!

And as we mentioned at the beginning, you can also add Widgets to the Mac desktop. It is perfect to always have your meetings in view. Here is an article where we explain it to you in detail.

If you need more tricks or tips for your Mac, we have them all! Check out our wide range of blogs from the world of Apple.