What does 'Show on all Spaces' in Wallpaper do on MacBook Pro?

Apple says: If you’ve created additional desktop spaces on your Mac, or you’ve connected more than one display, turn on “Show on all Spaces” to use the same wallpaper on every desktop space and display.

From: Wallpaper settings on Mac - Apple Support

Exactly what it says. It will show the selected wallpaper on all desktop spaces you have including external monitors. Otherwise, you can set each space and display to have its own wallpaper.

click here ➜ Wallpaper settings on Mac - Apple Support

“Show on all Spaces” makes the selected wallpaper appear across all virtual desktops (Spaces) on your MacBook, instead of just one.

1mac4don wrote:

But no, it's not 'exactly what it says' because it doesn't say enough. It doesn't say anything about 'including additional monitors'.

I think you're splitting semantic hairs. "All spaces" means all of them. If it didn't mean all of them, it would say, "except on external monitors."

However, you can certainly let Apple know that you think the wording is imprecise here:

Product Feedback - Apple

1mac4don wrote:

Perhaps as someone in the help department, YOU could be more understanding.

If you want the ‘help department’, you can contact them here:

Official Apple Support

This is a user community, and we are users like you (albeit with more experience using Apple products).

It doesn't need to. Spaces include external monitors.

If the issue is you don't know what "Spaces" is referring to, then that's a different thing altogether.

Ask that question instead.

Otherwise the short blurb explains exactly what the option does.

"you can use Mission Control to create additional desktops, called spaces, to organize the windows. When you work in a space, only the windows that are in that space are shown."

from:

Work in multiple spaces on Mac - Apple Support

So if you use Mission Control, you can create Spaces.

if work with Multiple displays, you extend the concept of Spaces further by using "displays have separate spaces"

<< Perhaps as someone in the help department. >>

The people who are answering your questions here are NOT Apple employees. They are other Users, who Volunteer their time and energy to help you in whatever way they can. Apple provides the forum software and a place to hold the discussion, but most Apple employees are prohibited from posting here.

If important parts of your question did not get answered, just ask a more pointed question and Readers will try again.

or contact Apple Support

Official Apple Support

1mac4don wrote:

I followed the link you supplied, but it did NOT lead me to where I could make a comment toward improving Apple's wording re their wallpaper. If fact there was nothing there dealing with wallpapers and how to set them up, properly.

You can submit feedback here:

Feedback - MacBook Pro - Apple

Re your comment about me splitting hairs... someone new to the Apple way could have no idea what was intended, or not said... we can only go by what IS, right there in writing.

Perhaps as someone in the help department, YOU could be more understanding.

Your reply is addressed to your own post but I assume you mean me. I'm not in anyone's help department.