Wallpaper Weekends is a series that works to bring you stunning, high quality wallpapers for your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple Watch.
This week’s “Sierra” wallpaper collection was first posted online by . iDownloadBlog is a very informative Apple centric website, and we highly suggest checking them out sometime. The wallpapers are created from the beautiful wallpaper shown on the desktop during Monday’s WWDC 2016 demo of macOS Sierra.
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- MacOS Sierra Wallpaper available in various resolutions to suit your computer desktop, iPhone, iPad & Android™ devices, and discover more Nature wallpapers.
- Jul 16, 2018 There’s no shortage of iPhone wallpaper sites out there, but trawling through them to find decent images can be a tedious process. One Reddit user, however, has done the work for you, pulling.
- Jul 16, 2018 There’s no shortage of iPhone wallpaper sites out there, but trawling through them to find decent images can be a tedious process. One Reddit user, however, has done the work for you, pulling.
- Jun 06, 2018 Download: iPhone. If you love new wallpapers for your devices, make sure to check out the full iDB gallery via our Wallpapers of the Week Sunday posts. To stay informed on the latest wallpapers, mid-week downloads, and peaks of upcoming releases, make sure to follow me @jimgresham.It is here that I engage our vibrant wallpaper community and curate new submissions for the collection!
The download link below includes the original Sierra wallpaper in full 5K resolution. The imagery is simply stunning, with options available for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and will definitely bring any mobile or desktop to life if they are used as the wallpaper for the lock screen or the Home screen itself. Mac OS is a proper language. How to change your Windows 10 background to a MAC OS X Wallpaper? It is very easy to do, simply visit the how to change the wallpaper on desktop page How to add a MAC OS X wallpaper for your iPhone? If you own an iPhone mobile phone, please check the how to change the wallpaper on iPhone page. How to set a MAC OS X wallpaper for an Android device?
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Download Directions for iPhone and iPad
From your device, link to the full resolution image by tapping the individual images. When the new window opens, tap the Safari Extensions icon in the bottom area of your browser, (it looks like a box with an up arrow sticking out of it), and tap “Save image” to save the image to your Photo Library.
From your desktop computer, link to the full resolution image by clicking the image. Right-click and save the image to your iTunes photo sync folder.
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Download Directions for Apple Watch
From your iPhone, link to the full resolution image by tapping the individual images. When the new window opens, tap the Safari Extensions icon in the bottom area of your browser, (it looks like a box with an up arrow sticking out of it), and tap “Save image” to save the image to your Photo Library.
After you’ve saved all of the wallpapers you’d like to use, open the Photos app on your iPhone and move the new images to the album you use to share images with you Apple Watch. Now you can go to your Apple Watch, select the new wallpaper as a watch face, and customize it to your heart’s content. If you do download several of the wallpapers and move them to your Watch, you can even set them to rotate between them each time you view your watch face!
Download & Installation Instructions for the Mac
From your Mac, click your mouse pointer on one of the images. When the full-sized image appears in your browser, right-click or CTRL-Click on the image, and click on “Save Image As…” to save the image to your Mac’s hard drive.
Now, right-click or CTRL-click on your desktop, and select “Change DesktopBackground…” In the Desktop & Screen Saver dialog box that appears, click the “+” button at the bottom of the left panel. Navigate to the directory you saved the wallpaper in, and double-click the wallpaper filename.
Or, as reader Biff Bifferson pointed out, you can just right click on the image in the browser and click “Set As Desktop Background.” That both changes the desktop AND saves the image.
On macOS, Messages has several of the fun effects that can be found on its iOS counterpart to help liven up your conversations. However, Messages for Mac isn't quite the same app as Messages for iPhone and iPad, with a number of effects left out of this version that have made their way to the mobile app.
Using this guide, find out what you can do, what you can't do, and how you can work around some of the limitations of Messages for macOS with other apps and tools.
Messages features you can use in macOS
Here's what you currently can do with Messages and macOS.
Rich links
Rather than simply displaying a link when you paste it in an iMessage conversation, now Messages generates a slick preview of the link, including a headline and a photo. Messages also allows you to watch YouTube videos from within your conversation as well.
Big emoji
Emoji are now three times larger than they have previously been. The emoji you send will appear this size when you send three or fewer characters.
Tapbacks
Tapbacks are quick reactions that you can attach to message bubbles. You can select from the following: heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, 'Ha Ha', '!!', or '?'.
What's missing from Messages in macOS
Unfortunately, while Messages on iOS has features like bubble and screen effects to add extra flavor to your messages, these effects have yet to make their way to the Mac.
Also absent from Messages in macOS are stickers and iMessage apps. These features require the iMessage App Store, and as such, it's not surprising to see them excluded — still, their absence is felt, especially when iPhone- and iPad-touting friends send a constant barrage of stickers. That said, you can still take advantage of services, apps, and utilities to bring a little more fun to Messages on the Mac.
GIPHY
Giphy puts thousands of GIFs right at your fingertips that you can easily share with friends and family just as you would any other image. Just bookmark the site, then head there and search to find the right GIF for your conversation.
GIF Keyboard
Just like its counterpart for iPhone and iPad, GIF Keyboard for Mac lets you quickly search for GIFs and add them to any conversation. The app lives in your Mac's Menu bar, and you can just drag and drop your chosen GIF into any message thread in any app you want, including Messages.
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Rocket
This is a useful little utility that makes adding emoji to your messages quick and easy. Just type your trigger character (':' by default), and follow it with the name of the emoji you want to use. You can download it for free, then upgrade for $3.99 for access to custom emoji phrases, GIF support, and more.
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But what about my apps?
If you've been using iMessage apps on your iPhone, you might be wondering what you can do to get those apps on your Mac. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that iMessage apps will be making their way to macOS anytime soon. For now, you'll need to head to the websites for OpenTable, Fandango, and Square Cash, among others, in order to make use of these services on your Mac.
Questions?
If you have any questions about using effects in Messages on macOS, be sure to let us know!
Updated January 2020: Up-to-date for macOS Catalina.
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