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Daily wallpapers

Wake up to a new photograph on your Mac and phone each day: of anything you name, matched to your day, or from your own Google Photos. Or pick one now, from the web or the Mac's own wallpapers, for every Space or just this one.

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Use itHow it worksLimitsWhere it's kept

Use it

• change wallpaper to mountainswallpaper of tokyo at nightA grid of pictures to pick from: the Mac's own first, then free pictures from the web; ↵ or a double-click puts one up on every Space, ⌥↵ on this Space only
• As you type change wallpaper to, the pictures appear under the field, laid out as Settings › Wallpaper lays them out: Dynamic Wallpapers, Pictures, Landscape, Cityscape, Underwater, Earth and Colors, each with Show All; type words and they become the Mac's matches and a shelf per web source. ⌘J ⌘K move a row down and up, ⌘H ⌘L along the row; ↵ or a double-click puts one up on every Space, ⌥↵ or ⌥ double-click on this Space only
• change wallpaper to https://…Paste the address of a picture, or of a page that has one (a Wikimedia Commons file, Pexels, wallhaven, any page with a preview picture); it shows first, ↵ puts it up. Unsplash's pages refuse programs: paste the picture's own address (Copy Image Address) instead
• change wallpaper to ~/Pictures/beach.heicset ~/Pictures/beach.jpg as my wallpaperA picture on this Mac
• change wallpaper to mountains from unsplash… from nasa… from macOne source only
• mac wallpapersshow wallpapersA grid of every wallpaper the Mac comes with
• daily wallpapers of misty mountainschange my wallpaper to misty mountains every dayOn Mac and phone now, a new one daily
• change wallpaper to sequoiachange wallpaper to imac bluechange wallpaper to sequoia sunriseThe Mac's own wallpaper of that name, kept
• … on all spaces… on this spaceEvery Space (the default, as Show on all Spaces in Settings) or only the Space in front; remembered for the pictures after
• wallpaper ↵Opens Settings › Wallpaper, as any Settings pane typed by its name does
• change wallpaper to blackchange wallpaper to dark blueset my wallpaper to #1e1e2eA plain colour, drawn on the Mac, nothing fetched
• wallpapers by moodMatched to your weather, the hour and the season
• wallpapers from google photosYour own photos, one a day
• next wallpaperchange my wallpaperAnother one now
• keep this wallpaperToday's stays until you say otherwise
• daily wallpapers ondaily wallpapers offStart or stop
• Wallpaper in the phone's All appsToday's picture, its credit, Next, Keep and where pictures come from
• Hold the phone's home screen, then Change wallpaperThe same sheet

How it works

A picture you pick is put up and kept: no daily change until you say let my wallpaper change or name other words. The Mac's own wallpapers are listed from macOS itself, so they are the same ones Settings shows; an aerial macOS has not downloaded yet is downloaded by macOS when you pick it. The phone gets a still of whatever the Mac shows.

On every Space, Jevie writes the picture into the Mac's wallpaper settings for each Space and display, as Settings' Show on all Spaces does, and the desktop redraws within a few seconds.

Each day your Mac picks two matching pictures, a wide one for the desktop and a tall one for the phone, so neither is cropped. They come from reviewed, freely licensed photographs of places and skies, never repeating recent ones.

From Google Photos, Jevie sees only the photos you pick, never your library. The phone gets the picture from your Mac and sets it as home and lock screen, and never replaces a wallpaper you set yourself.

Limits

• Pictures to pick from are searched on Wikimedia Commons and Openverse at once, NASA's image library too when the words are about the sky or space, and Unsplash and Pexels when their keys (UNSPLASH_ACCESS_KEY, PEXELS_API_KEY) are in Jevie's keys; a source that is slow (over 4.5 seconds) is left out that time. Each picture says its source, licence and author.
• Daily pictures are searched on Wikimedia Commons; Google Photos sees only the picks you made, downloaded once to your Mac.
• The web's pictures appear a moment after the Mac's own as you type; the first search for new words takes a second or two.
• A Space you have never set a wallpaper for can't be given one of the Mac's own by on this space; say on all spaces, or pick any picture for it in Settings once.
• Choosing per Space and the Mac's own wallpapers need macOS 14 or later.
• A pasted address is fetched only from the internet: an address on your own network or this Mac is refused.
• The phone follows a paired Mac, keeping the day's picture while the Mac is away.
• On Windows the picture is picked but not yet set on the desktop.

Where it's kept

The pictures in ~/.jevie/wallpapers, the state in ~/.jevie/wallpaper.json. Small pictures for the rows in ~/.jevie/wallpapers/thumbs.

In Jevie, help wallpaper answers from this page as you type.

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Updated 3 November 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us