macOS Tahoe Adds These 15 New Screen Savers to Your Mac

Saturday August 9, 2025 1:28 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol

macOS Tahoe includes 15 new aerial screen savers for the Mac, each panning over natural landscapes around the world.

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The new screen saver options were highlighted by Dylan McDonald, and we have provided still previews of all of them below.

The new screen savers can also be set as wallpapers.

To browse through all screen savers on macOS Tahoe, open the System Settings app, click Wallpaper, and click the "Screen Saver…" button.

How to Install macOS Tahoe Beta

macOS Tahoe will likely be released in September, but anyone can sign up to try the public beta now for free via beta.apple.com.

How to Install macOS Tahoe Public Beta

New Screen Savers

Tahoe Day (Lake Tahoe, California) ↓

Tahoe Evening (Lake Tahoe, California) ↓

Tahoe Morning (Lake Tahoe, California) ↓

Tahoe Night (Lake Tahoe, California) ↓

Himalayan Peaks (Himalayas) ↓

Himalayas Day (Himalayas) ↓

Through Himalayas (Himalayas) ↓

Goa Beaches (Goa, India) ↓

Goa Coast (Goa, India) ↓

Reservoir Day (Kerala, India) ↓

Tea Gardens Day (Kerala, India) ↓

Tea Gardens Mist (Kerala, India) ↓

Tea Gardens from Above (Kerala, India) ↓

Ghansali from Above (Uttarakhand, India) ↓

The Ganges (Uttarakhand, India) ↓

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Top Rated Comments

Mac Fly (film)

10 weeks ago

Update: I should mention these are dynamic wallpapers that will change throughout the day, not merely still ones. If you set them from the Screen Saver section in System Settings both wallpaper and screen saver will change to this, and will function very much like Apple's aerial screen savers, animating as screen saver, and slowing to a freeze-frame as you unlock to your desktop. If you set them from the Wallpaper section in System Settings they will change only the wallpaper and won't animate, but will dynamically adapt in darkness and brightness for your time of day. What had me confused was that they are used as the still marketing wallpaper image for each macOS release for six years—which to my eyes they shouldn't be as they feel outdated.

How does Apple have the best aerials in the business and the least creative default wallpapers.

Tahoe:

Sequoia:

Sonoma:

Ventura:

Monterey:

Big Sur:

Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)

JohnC1959

10 weeks ago

How does Apple have the best aerials in the business and the least creative default wallpapers.

I think their reasoning is that such a simple wallpaper makes transparent controls look better. The new liquid glass doesn't work well with 'busy' wallpaper.

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

fullauto

10 weeks ago

These are beautiful. Video to still image on log-in is such a great effect. Awesome to have some new beach scenes.

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

con2apple

10 weeks ago

How does Apple have the best aerials in the business and the least creative default wallpapers.††

Matter of taste.

Each one shows a special scene from the environment in a minimalist style. Playing with colors, shades even "light".

Personally, I think these wallpapers are much more creative than a video loop. The designers had to put a lot of thought into the wallpapers. The beauty of the screensavers has already been created by nature.

Here is a typical photo from Sequoia and what Apple has made of it.