MacBook Air M1 Desktop Background

Hi everyone.

My MacBook Air M1 is not allowing me to put up any of the images I have in my photos as a Desktop background image.

I'm allowed to have only those pre-installed.

Funny thing, if I go to my photos and and choose an image to be my desktop bg, it shows up, but the moment I hit "System Preferences", poof... disappears..

Anyone else ?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Oct 5, 2021 4:16 AM

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Posted on Oct 5, 2021 6:40 AM

Works fine on my MacBook Pro.

Try doing it in safe mode:

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support


Where is your library stored?

Are you using iCloud?

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