You can still just select one of the images out of the folder. If you’ve added a folder, it should now be visible in the sidebar of the Desktop & Screen Saver window.

Add your own folder or use your album from Photos.

Click on the plus sign in the bottom-left corner or choose Photos.

Go to System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver.

There’s also another way to add your own group of images, which gives you more flexibility in terms of setting them to automatically rotate later on: Rotate beautiful backgrounds automatically

Click on any image to set it as a background (you might need to click the download button first).

If your Mac runs macOS 13 Ventura, the flow is a bit different:

Click on any of the pictures to set it as your background.

In the sidebar, open Apple > Desktop Pictures.

Open System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver.

If you simply want to switch away from the default Mac desktop wallpaper, you should first try one of the Apple backgrounds already pre-installed on your Mac.

Try free How to change wallpaper on Mac from System Preferences

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