Use An Unblurred Picture For Your Login Screen: The login screen, however, is now set as a blurred version of your preferred image. Instead, the lock screen will always show a version of your current wallpaper. Note: in the case of a rotating wallpaper, this change will not affect your lock screen. Now, you can log out of your account or restart your Mac to check your new login screen. This will take a minute or two sometimes, so wait until it happens.Īfter seeing your image, go ahead and turn ON your rotating wallpaper, if you want.

If your changes took hold, this image will be a blurred version of the image that you set as your wallpaper. Find an image named “.png” in this folder. Open the finder, then tap on Go, and then Go To Folder. But, first, make sure that MacOS has set your new image as the background for your login screen.

You can switch back to the rotating folder you had before if you want it. If you want to use one of your own images, you can do that without disturbing the rotating folder of images.įirst, right-click your desktop, then click “Change Desktop Background.” Now change the desktop background to whatever image you would like to have your login screen to be.

Suppose that your wallpaper is in a rotating folder of images, but MacOS uses the default Sierra wallpaper. Change Your Desktop Wallpaper:Īs previously said, changing the blurred image behind your login screen is as simple as changing your desktop wallpaper. This method works in Sierra, Yosemite, and El Capitan MacOS. Here is how to configure the way exactly in the way you wish to have.

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