Guides
Your Mac’s desktop, explained
Each guide starts with what macOS can do on its own, and gets to MacScapes last, if at all. Setting names are checked on a Mac running macOS 27 and against Apple’s own documentation, and every guide says when it was last checked.
Wallpaper
- How to change your Mac wallpaper by time of dayUse the dynamic wallpapers built into macOS to follow the sun, make your own, or change the whole desktop at set times and at sunset.Updated
- Different wallpaper on each Mac display or SpaceGive each monitor, or each Space, its own desktop picture with the Wallpaper settings built into macOS, and keep it from switching back.Updated
- Mac wallpaper keeps resetting or changing? FixesWhy your desktop picture goes back to the default after a restart, or changes on its own, and how to fix each cause.Updated
- How to set a video as your wallpaper on MacWhat macOS can do with moving wallpapers on its own, and how to loop your own movie or a live scene behind your desktop.Updated
Desktop and Finder
- How to make a calm, aesthetic Mac desktopA quieter desktop in five steps: wallpaper, widgets, folder icons, the Dock and the menu bar. Built-in settings first, then a few vibe recipes.Updated
- Folder icon not showing or updating on Mac? FixesWhy Finder keeps showing an old folder icon or drops a custom one, and the fixes that are safe to use, including for folders in iCloud Drive.Updated