Custom wallpaper color shows as white and unable to change after macOS 15.4 update on Mac mini

I upgraded to 15.4 and now my Wallpaper is white and I am unable to select a custom color. Why is that?




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Mac mini (M2 Pro, 2023)

Posted on Mar 31, 2025 4:18 PM

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Posted on Apr 1, 2025 4:22 PM

This problem is on all my Macs. Since I'm visually-impaired, I use some pretty specific background colors to let me know which of my workspaces I'm on. This really broke things for me, I was able to come up with some colors from the "stock" color pallet, but they are nowhere near as useful to me as the custom ones I created. I guess I could go the "small RGB image" route, but it'd be better if Apple just fixed this.

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Apr 5, 2025 9:27 AM in response to Peter Wargo

You can create such a tiny file for this, it's just as easy to email it/them to the other Macs.

Of course, I'm not sure why this was missed, unless everyone at Apple uses pictures for wallpaper.

Apple will never say, but if anyone checked at all, they had to have only clicked on the 19 default colors, saw that they worked and declared it good.

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Apr 6, 2025 2:11 PM in response to mrc3

I'm not sure what you mean by uploaded. After using GraphicConverter to create 16x16 images with the color swatches I wanted saved out in PNG format, I stuck them into my ~/Pictures folder and named them in a way that put them at the head of the list. That worked fine; when I changed background and scrolled down to the "Pictures" section near the bottom, there they were. All worked fine, and now as a bonus I've used it on all my other mMacs to make the colors consistent.


(Pretty much the only part of my vision that works is the peripheral, so it allows me to see what desktop I'm on out of the "corner of my eye" while switching. I've used the same colors pretty much since Apple introduced multiple desktops; it works well for me.)

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Apr 9, 2025 6:11 PM in response to pjglad

This is incredibly, deeply embarrassing and stupid. My eyes are sensitive to bright white so I minimize my exposure on many web browsers and often have very specific accessibility settings and accent/desktop colors chosen and spend the last few minutes figuring out why I could choose a specific dark gray color that's available by default but why I couldn't darken this via a slider in the color picker. LOL

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Apr 10, 2025 7:55 PM in response to Kurt Lang

I have the same bug, no idea how to fix it. I went to Displays > Color profile but all I see is HP27er (my monitor), which is in a drop-down menu with what I suppose are other displays listed. I don't see any colours, even Apple preset colours, in this menu. I can't read any of the document/file names on my monitor now and I'm desperate and non-techy). Please help!

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Custom wallpaper color shows as white and unable to change after macOS 15.4 update on Mac mini

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