Custom color wallpaper Panel Sequoia 15.4 Mac not working

Here 😆 worked fine 20+ years until 15.4. Its 2025 with a $10k Mac Silicon and now surprise. Genius

Same here! It's really annoying! I want my custom colored desktops back.

Looking at the user discussions this has been FUBAR since 15.1.

It hasn't. I always use a custom tint and it worked just fine up through 15.3.2. Or whatever the last 15.3.x release was.

One workaround is to create a solid block of color in Word (or any similar program), take a screenshot, and then use the Add Photo option in the Wallpaper system preferences to set it. Worked perfectly for me!

It's a known problem with Sequoia 15.4.

See: Custom wallpaper color shows as white and… - Apple Community

yea its broken - had to make up a image in photoshop to get my 50% grey back

Casey 5ense wrote:

Should have been solved decades ago.

It worked for decades before Sequoia 15.4

Yes you can screenshot a solid color but that's not a permanent solution.

It is if you don't change it.

Further proof that no one reads, or only read what they want.

The solution is in this topic more than once, and in at least a few other similar topics. Yet each day, sometimes more than once a day, this topic jump to the top of my subscription list, even through there is no new content.

What changed? People who only want to gripe upvote one of, or both of these replies:

Same here! It's really annoying! I want my custom colored desktops back.

Here 😆 worked fine 20+ years until 15.4. Its 2025 with a $10k Mac Silicon and now surprise. Genius

So, they were capable of finding, reading and upvoting replies that do nothing to help, and yet can't find the replies in this same topic that do.

martin from wrote:

And yes, of course I have reported it to Apple, but they have ignored this problem since the release of 15.4 a month ago regardless of many people being affected.

Do you have some personal insight into the fact Apple hasn't already fixed it for the next update?

Rude? You wrote:

After the update macOS Sequoia 15.4 the background colors doesn't work anymore!

Which indicates you hadn't read the other responses, or you would have followed the link to the topic that explains a few ways to create a small image of the tint you want, and how to apply it. Which means you wouldn't have needed to post your reply. Except maybe to say, "Thanks for the link. Just what I needed to know."

If you wonder why long time members get a little snippy at such replies, look at all of the "me too's" in topics like this one, where each person CLEARLY didn't read a single reply in multiple pages stating the same answer to the same question over and over and over …

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255567597?answerId=261249448022&sortBy=oldest_first&page=1#261249448022

J Browne's solution works for me, too. You can set a custom colour only by creating an image which is entirely that colour, and set that image as your wallpaper.

I'm getting the impression this is the worst thing to ever happen in history of computing. 🤔

martin from wrote:

Well, a month later from original update and no apology from Apple, but eventually we are up to date.

Did you apologize to Apple for all your pointless posts?

martin from wrote:

I spend enough time sorting out my Mac to how I want it, and really do not need anyone altering my choices.

FWIW, you never had a choice other than what Apple made available to you. As I already said, no doubt it will be fixed in the next update.

What you're saying is, even though there is incredibly simple solution you can do in under two minutes, you're instead going to uselessly gripe and do nothing.

There is no real solution in jpegs…

Of course there is. You can make your tiny image in any image format the OS will recognize to use as wallpaper. And a screen shot by default is a PNG, not JPEG.

Despite your claim, I'm using a small, gray tint PNG now as my wallpaper. Looks exactly the same as the tint I had set before.

So, you can either create a small image in the flat tint color you want to use as your wallpaper, or you can continue lying to yourself that it can't be done.

I spend enough time sorting out my Mac to how I want it, and really do not need anyone altering my choices.

You actually believe Apple did that on purpose? Wow. Just, wow.