Put Apple Park right on your Mac or iPad display [Apple wallpapers]

Designer Basic Apple Guy, purveyor of fine wallpapers for your devices, found a way to blow up a bunch of tiny background shots of Apple Park in Cupertino into fine wallpapers for Mac and iPad displays. The background shots are included in macOS Sequoia for small-scale uses in apps like FaceTime and Photo Booth, so they had to be majorly upscaled. BAG dropped the wallpaper versions online Thursday for your downloading pleasure (see below).

Download Basic Apple Guy’s Apple Park Wallpapers for Mac or iPad

So now you can express your admiration for Apple right on the Mac or iPad you love with wallpapers from Apple Park (best in landscape mode, BAG pointed out). And it wasn’t so easy to make these images happen, by the way. Here’s how BAG describes where the images came from and how he did adjusted them, with the help of some “upscaling severe voodoo”:

In macOS Sonoma, Apple added the systemwide API to add custom backgrounds in apps (FaceTime, Photo Booth, Zoom, etc.) using the camera on the Mac. And in an early beta of macOS Sequoia, nine background images of locations across Apple Park were bundled with this new feature. The images feature several iconic locations around the campus, including the rainbow arch, courtyard fountain, fitness center, and the entranceway of Apple Park.

Thanks to Remo (@remo_Pr0) for finding the directory that stores these images. But at 1920 × 1080, the images were fine as Facetime backgrounds but far too small for anything else. But thanks to some upscaling severe voodoo, I got the files looking pretty remarkable, even after increasing their size by nearly 10x from the original. As someone who has never visited Apple Park, I find these images give a rare glimpse of some of this campus’s beautiful architecture and landscaping.

Apple Park Wallpapershttps://t.co/RPu222osCi pic.twitter.com/FDxbVCOK06

— Basic Apple Guy (@BasicAppleGuy) October 18, 2024

All you have to do is click on an image on BAG’s site at the link below to download images for your Mac or iPad.

Download from: Basic Apple Guy