Browsing Thousands of Mac Wallpapers Without Lag
Browsing stays smooth however many wallpapers there are. The library loads as you scroll instead of making you wait for all of it, and going back up is instant.
The wallpaper library kept growing, and browsing it started to feel like it.
Explore used to get every wallpaper ready before showing you any of them, so the wait got a little worse with every new upload. Now it loads as you scroll, and the first screen appears just as fast whether there are two thousand wallpapers or twenty thousand.
Quick answer: Explore used to make you wait for the whole library before showing you anything. Now it fills in as you scroll, so browsing stays quick no matter how big the collection gets.
Scrolling Back Up Is Instant
Wallpapers you have already scrolled past stay ready, so going back up through a list is immediate rather than a second round of waiting.
Searching, filtering by category and changing the sort order all answer faster too, and moving between tabs is noticeably quicker. If browsing is slow for you on a current version, the slow loading FAQ is the place to start.
Finding Something Without Scrolling At All
Scrolling is the slow way round even when it is fast. A few quicker routes:
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Search by what you want to see. Words like rain, forest, city or neon get you further than trying to remember a title.
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Narrow to a subject first. The gallery is sorted into anime, nature, space, cars, cyberpunk and more, so you are choosing between dozens rather than thousands.
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Sort by what other people liked, which is a surprisingly good filter when you do not know what you are after.
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Start from a shortlist. The 50 free live wallpapers roundup is browsable here on the site without installing anything.
Anything you find on the site can go straight to your Mac in one click, so browsing here and setting a wallpaper there are the same job.
Small Things You Touch Every Day
The menu bar occasionally referred to the wallpaper you were playing by an internal name that meant nothing to anyone. It uses the real title now.
And the close buttons on the licence panel, the wallpaper manager, the share menu and the Set as Wallpaper panel are all honest about their size. The whole button works, not just the small mark in the middle of it, and it lights up as your pointer arrives so you know you are about to hit it.
There is also some quiet groundwork towards putting Wallper on Steam one day. No date, no promises, just the beginning of it.
