This can be a fun use for your Live Photos converted to GIFs, which is what I have done in this piece with a fireplace gif that was created from a Live Photo. Here’s an example of the Mac desktop with a fireplace GIF in use as the wallpaper background image:Īnd here’s another Mac desktop example with animated GIF as wallpaper via Lifehacker: The animated GIF should load as wallpaper immediately, but if it doesn’t try manually launching the Gifpaper.app to load the gif as the desktop background picture.

Install the preference panel and use the Browse option to select your animated GIF, then adjust the settings as desired.Get GIFPaper from this Dropbox link*, it’s free from the developer but unsupported.How to Set Animated GIF as Desktop Wallpaper in Mac OS X If you don’t mind those caveats, here’s how you can use GIFPaper to set an animated GIF as the desktop picture on a Mac.

If you aren’t comfortable with any of that, don’t use the GifPaper app for now. Because of all that, using GifPaper is likely better used exclusively by more advanced Mac users, as it’s totally unsupported by the developer (or anyone else). GIFPaper is somewhat experimental at this point, requires skipping Gatekeeper, uses about 15% of CPU to display the animation, requires manually installing a preference panel, and if you want to get rid of it, you have to force quit the associated process through Activity Monitor.

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