Skip to main content
X

Send us a Topic or Tip

Have a suggestion for the blog? Perhaps a topic you'd like us to write about? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Fancy yourself a writer and have a tech tip, handy computer trick, or "how to" to share? Let us know what you'd like to contribute!

Thanks for reaching out!

How to Setup Cinematic Screensavers in macOS

When Apple launched macOS Sonoma it added “new slow-motion screen savers of breathtaking locations from around the world” that “look beautiful on your large Mac display.” These new screensavers replicate the awesome screensavers found on the Apple TV.

Plus, when you login to your Mac, they seamlessly become your desktop wallpaper. Here’s how to enable one of these awesome new screensavers.

° Go to the Apple Menu at the top right of your Mac’s screen.

° Open System Settings.

° Look down the left panel and select the Lock Screen settings.

System Settings > Lock Screen
System Settings > Lock Screen

° Click the drop-down menu next to Start Screen Saver when inactive.

° Choose the time duration of the screensaver. If you choose, for instance, five minutes, the screensaver will start after, well, five minutes of inactivity on your Mac. 

Screen Saver options
Screen Saver options

° If you’re using a laptop that’s running on battery power, you can enable the Turn display off on battery when inactive and set a time value as low as one minute.

° Click on the Screen Saver option in System Settings. There are four available: landscape, cityscape, underwater, landscape, and Earth. You can also choose Shuffle Aerials to have the landscapes, well, shuffle.

Screen Saver
Screen Saver 

° Select the one you want to use, and macOS will download and apply the screensaver.

° To enable a seamless transition from the screensaver into your Mac’s desktop wallpaper hit the toggle for Show as wallpaper.

Dennis Sellers
the authorDennis Sellers
Contributing Author
Dennis has over 40 years of journalism experience and has written hundreds of articles. For the past 20-plus years, he's been an online journalist, covering mainly Apple Inc. He's written for MacCentral, MacWorld, MacMinute, Macsimum News, Apple Daily Report, and is now contributing editor at Apple World Today.
Be Sociable, Share This Post!

Leave a Reply