Apple unveiled macOS Mojave on Monday, and included in the new desert-themed OS update are three new wallpapers. Mojave Day for light mode, Mojave Night for the brand new dark mode, and a special dynamic version… You can download both Mojave Day and Mojave Night below and use them your on Mac (or other device) without updating your machine to the first developer beta release of macOS 10.14. macOS Mojave also introduces a new dynamic wallpaper format that uses Location Services to update your wallpaper based on time of day. See it in action using the slider here. While macOS typically uses JPEG images for the files that make desktop wallpapers, the new dynamic wallpaper relies on the relatively new HEIC format. The wallpaper then updates based on local sunrise and sunset times — but you’ll need macOS Mojave to use it. macOS does have a ‘Change Every:’ option that lets you cycle through multiple wallpapers in a collection, but the time intervals are not ideal for day and night switching. For now, you can download and start using both Mojave Day and Mojave Night below: Also check out the new iOS 12 wallpaper for iPhone and iPad, and our full coverage of WWDC 2018 here. Subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more Apple news: FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More. Check out 9to5Mac on YouTube for more Apple news:<doc-sep>Dynamic wallpapers are about to change the look of your Mac once Mojave launches to the public, but you don’t have to wait until this fall to get that new new right now. Mojave includes 16 variations of the same majestic sand dune Apple showed off at WWDC 2018. If you can’t install Mojave on your Mac, you can download the Mojave dynamic wallpapers below. Mojave dynamic wallpapers A helpful Redditor uploaded a .zip file with high-quality versions of the new wallpapers. The images were extracted from the compressed HEIC image container format included in macOS. macOS Mojave also brings the long-awaited dark mode to the Mac, giving users an inverted color scheme. Black and dark grey windows replace white ones which should be good for photographers and creatives since it allows images and files to stand out more. Apple also added a number of new UI changes and features as part of the huge update. The official launch of macOS Mojave was on September 24 2018.<doc-sep>Here’s an easy way to get macOS Mojave’s constantly-changing Dynamic Desktop on any Mac. Dynamic Desktop wallpapers slowly fade through a set of photos throughout the day. The default set of images is of a pile of sand, presumably in the Mojave desert, showing the same view as the light changes throughout the day. We already showed you where to download those wallpapers. Now we’re going to see that your Mac can already turn these images into a Mojave-style Dynamic Desktop slideshow. Dynamic Desktop You’re going to love this tip. First, go and download the Dynamic Desktop wallpapers. Unzip the download, and drag the entire folder to somewhere permanent. You might create a Wallpapers folder inside your Photos folder, for example. Anywhere is fine. Then, open up the Desktop & Screen Saver panel in the System Preferences app. Click on the Desktop tab, and you’ll see something like this: Next, drag the folder of Mojave desert wallpapers into the side panel of this window, into the section marked Folders. Click on that folder to make sure it’s selected. You’ll see all the differently-lit pictures of sand in the main panel. Ever-changing Then, and here’s the clever bit, check the box marked Change picture, and then set the drop-down picker to Every hour. This will cycle through all the images in that Mojave sand-heap folder, changing once per hour. To get a fast-forward preview of how this will work, you can set the time period to Every 5 seconds. Mojave’s Dynamic Desktop is smart than this, changing the view to match the time of day, but this is a pretty good alternative. Try it now.<doc-sep>The next version of macOS will be called Mojave and will come with a bunch of new features including a dark mode, more organizational options, and desktop versions of several iOS apps. Apple CEO Tim Cook said Mojave’s new features are “inspired by pro users, but designed for everyone.” The new version was announced today at WWDC, Apple’s annual developer conference. A public beta will likely start this summer, with a final release coming in the fall. Here’s what’s new: Dark mode At long last, Apple is adding a dark mode to macOS. It turns the dock, taskbar, and the chrome around your apps into a dark gray. Does this add any real functionality? No. Does it look great? Yes. And that’s all dark modes have ever been about. Mac App Store redesign The Mac App Store is getting a long-overdue redesign. The new store takes a lot of cues from the iOS store, which was redesigned last year. It now has more big billboards calling out new apps and collections, as well as some of the editorial content that Apple has been putting together about different apps. Will this reinvigorate the slowly dying store? It’ll likely take more than the redesign alone. But Apple has two big partners coming on board with an app each: Microsoft will launch Office 365 and Adobe will launch Lightroom CC through the store. Apple News, Voice Memos, Home, and Stocks As it’s done frequently over the past several years, Apple is bringing more of its iOS apps to the Mac. The apps don’t appear to be doing much they can’t on the iPhone, but being able to sync your files across devices is always a big help. Desktop stacks Apple is adding a new way to clean up our messy desktops: a feature called “stacks.” These are basically just folders dedicated to specific file types, but they automatically collect files that ought to go in them. So you’ll have stacks dedicated to PDFs, images, movies, and so on. Clicking on them will pop the files open onto the desktop so you can browse through them. Security controls Apple is adding even more pop-ups to let you control what apps have access to your information and hardware. These are all pretty familiar to iOS users, but they’re not as common on the desktop. So now you’ll get asked if an app should have access to your location, photos, contacts, microphone, and so on all across the OS, which is a big deal. Safari privacy Last year, Apple started blocking websites from tracking you in Safari. This year, it’s adding the ability to block social networks like Facebook from tracking you across the web using “like” buttons. It’s also trying to disguise your Mac in other ways so that companies have a harder time tracking you. Finder updates There’s now a new view in finder called “gallery view” that lets you scroll through small previews of your files, while having the selected file appear larger at the top. It looks like a smarter take on Cover Flow, which was always flashier than it was useful. Apple is also adding ways to view metadata inside a finder window and quick actions you can perform on files, like rotating a photo or assembling multiple files into a PDF. Markup and screenshots You’ll be able to mark up documents and make small changes inside of Quick Look, which should make the feature an even quicker way to deal with your files. Taking a screenshot will also automatically present you with a button to mark them up. Dynamic Desktop These seem to be live wallpapers that change occasionally throughout the day. Apple only gave one example: a photo that changed from day to night as time went on. It’s not clear if you’ll be able to add your own backgrounds here or if you have to use Apple’s. Launching this fall As usual, the new version of macOS will launch this fall, likely in September or October. A developer preview will launch today; if it’s anything like prior years, a public beta will likely open up in about a month, so you can try out the changes before they’re widely available. The Mac has felt fairly stagnant in recent years, as Apple puts more and more of its efforts into the much more widely used iOS. In fact, many of macOS’s biggest updates have been features that put the operating system in sync with the iPhone and iPad by porting over some of their apps. Last year’s update, High Sierra, included so few new features that there was hardly a reason to upgrade. At least from this whirlwind list of new features, the Mac feels a little bit less ignored this year. It may be a long list of small updates — and a lot of it comes from iOS — but it’s still a number of helpful and long-awaited features that should get people eager to update this time around. Check out our Apple WWDC storystream for the latest updates!<doc-sep>
WWDC 2021 You'll need to wait until the fall for the updates to iOS 12 and MacOS Mojave to hit, but there's no need to wait for the beautiful wallpapers Apple showed off at WWDC. With each software update, Apple introduces new wallpapers to spiff up iOS devices and Macs, and this year is no different. iOS 12's new wallpaper is a colorful splash of red, aqua and blue. Mojave gives you the choice of a sand dune landscape under the desert sun, or the pale, blue light of the moon -- because the update to MacOS features a changing desktop wallpaper as part of its new Dark Mode. Now playing: Watch this: WWDC 2018: Best new iOS 12 features and more iOS 12 wallpaper You can grab the new iOS 12 wallpaper (image size: 1,125 x2,436 pixels) right here for the iPhone ( ): Enlarge Image Apple To download the image to your Mac or laptop, click to enlarge it, right-click the image and choose Save Image As. Then move it to your iPhone via AirDrop, Dropbox, email or however you usually move files between your computer and phone. To set it as your wallpaper on your iPhone, save the image to your phone, open the image in the Photos app, tap the share button in the lower-left corner and select Use as Wallpaper. Here is the new iOS 12 wallpaper sized (2,934x2,934 pixels) for the iPad ( ): Enlarge Image Apple Follow the same method as detailed above for the iPhone to set the image as your iPad wallpaper. MacOS Mojave wallpaper Here's the daytime Mojave wallpaper: Enlarge Image Apple And here's the evening Mojave wallpaper: Enlarge Image Apple To set one of the above 5,120x2,880-pixel images as your wallpaper on your Mac or laptop, right-click on it and select Save Image As. Next, right-click on the thumbnail of the downloaded image and choose Set Desktop Picture. iOS 12: Siri shortcuts, group FaceTime and "Memoji" -- Animoji of you. WWDC 2018: Everything Apple announced at its annual developer shindig.