MacOS Sonoma Wallpapers Issues

even with a 1 gigabit internet and a wifi 6 router it takes ages to download the wallpapers. worlds most expensive company in the world should be able to solve this in beta

This fixed it for me: go into Mission Control, add a Space, and delete your default space. got the answer from @peterfreeby on X.

Bro how do wallpapers not work in 2023. That's crazy

fr bro this is ridiculous. common Apple L

Still an issue for me, but I at least found a way to surface the errors that are occurring when the download is interrupted, through the Console app. I wrote the paragraphs below after thinking that I was in the clear, since I could tell that the screen saver was actually downloading for once. But before submitting this post I found that it had stopped 😭, with the following console messages:

default	11:32:52.936999-0700	WallpaperAgent	Downloading (62%): AER-F390FE3B

error	11:32:53.227474-0700	idleassetsd	Task <AE6ADF4D-DFF3-4720-8C8E-9A58A6C57A9B>.<1> finished with error [-1001] Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 UserInfo={_kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-2103, NSURLSessionDownloadTaskResumeData=<private>, _NSURLErrorFailingURLSessionTaskErrorKey=<private>, _NSURLErrorRelatedURLSessionTaskErrorKey=<private>, NSLocalizedDescription=<private>, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=<private>, NSErrorFailingURLKey=<private>, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=4}

default	11:32:53.227725-0700	idleassetsd	nw_connection_report_state_with_handler_on_nw_queue [C2] reporting state cancelled

default	11:32:53.228321-0700	idleassetsd	<TVISHTTPRequester: 0x2364ff8c8> URL response etag ("F65A363ECFD3DE3D3B81EBBF06D87809-12") has been updated for url: (https://sylvan.apple.com/itunes-assets/Aerials116/v4/cb/5b/50/cb5b5035-6701-619f-9065-3d7d0e5fbef4/W014_C018_F01_FRC_sdr_4k_qp29_240p_t2160_grover401_tsa.mov)

error	11:32:53.228380-0700	idleassetsd	-[TVISAerialAssetService _downloadAssetWithID:remoteURL:parentProgress:completion:]_block_invoke - Error downloading asset with id: F390FE3B-FA61-483D-BADC-2447F89951BA, from URL: https://sylvan.apple.com/itunes-assets/Aerials116/v4/cb/5b/50/cb5b5035-6701-619f-9065-3d7d0e5fbef4/W014_C018_F01_FRC_sdr_4k_qp29_240p_t2160_grover401_tsa.mov, error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The request timed out." UserInfo={_kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-2103, NSURLSessionDownloadTaskResumeData=<CFData 0x600001294510 [0x1de7079a0]>{length = 25658, capacity = 65536, bytes = 0x3c3f786d6c2076657273696f6e3d2231 ... 2f706c6973743e0a}, _NSURLErrorFailingURLSessionTaskErrorKey=LocalDownloadTask <AE6ADF4D-DFF3-4720-8C8E-9A58A6C57A9B>.<1>, _NSURLErrorRelatedURLSessionTaskErrorKey=(
    "LocalDownloadTask <AE6ADF4D-DFF3-4720-8C8E-9A58A6C57A9B>.<1>"
), NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out., NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://sylvan.apple.com/itunes-assets/Aerials116/v4/cb/5b/50/cb5b5035-6701-619f-9065-3d7d0e5fbef4/W014_C018_F01_FRC_sdr_4k_qp29_240p_t2

default	11:32:53.228440-0700	idleassetsd	[downloadTask: 1, assetID: F390FE3B-FA61-483D-BADC-2447F89951BA] End

error	11:32:53.228547-0700	idleassetsd	-[TVISScreenSaverService forceDownloadAssetsWithIDs:reply:]_block_invoke - force downloading assets error: Error Domain=TVISAssetServiceManagerErrorDomain Code=-8000 "(null)" UserInfo={FailedAssetIDs={(
    "F390FE3B-FA61-483D-BADC-2447F89951BA"
)}}
default	11:32:53.228918-0700	WallpaperAgent	-[TVISScreenSaverServiceController forceDownloadAssetsWithIDs:completion:]_block_invoke - Force download completed. Error: Error Domain=TVISAssetServiceManagerErrorDomain Code=-8000 "(null)" UserInfo={FailedAssetIDs={(
    "F390FE3B-FA61-483D-BADC-2447F89951BA"
)}}

error	11:32:53.229147-0700	WallpaperAgent	Error downloading representative asset 'F390FE3B-FA61-483D-BADC-2447F89951BA': TVISAssetServiceManagerErrorDomain (-8000) <private>

default	11:32:53.229279-0700	idleassetsd	-[TVISServiceConnection fetchScreenSaverConfigurationWithReply:] - received fetch request for active screensaver config

default	11:32:53.230513-0700	WallpaperAgent	Complete Download: AER-F390FE3B)

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Everything below was written when I thought the problem had been solved by a restart or update:

This issue had been dogging me for ages—specifically, whenever I'd attempt to download a second aerial screen saver, the progress wheel wouldn't progress at all. Even after waiting for several hours. I tried again today and found that it's actually progressing. I don't know if this is due to a system restart or a recent Sonoma update (I updated to 14.2.1 yesterday).

FWIW, since the progress wheel is so tiny that it makes it very difficult to tell whether the download is progressing, I found that you can follow its percentage progress within the Console app:

1. Open the Console app (e.g. press CMD + Space Bar to open the Spotlight search bar, and enter "Console")
2. Within the Console app, find the search bar at the top right corner of the window.
3. In the search bar, type process:WallpaperAgent to filter the log messages. This will limit messages to only those coming from the "WallpaperAgent" process.
4. If messages aren't already streaming, click "Start streaming" in the main area of the console window.
5. If an aerial screensaver is downloading, you should now see a progress message generate once per second (e.g. "Downloading (62%): AER-F390FE3B")

This is still happening on 15.0 Beta (24A5264n) !! Come on APPLE FIX THIS.. I can't use any my iCloud photos as wallpapers or screen savers it just doesn't work correctly !

I'm back to Ventura several months ago just because of it, and still waiting when Apple fix it! According to these comments nothing has changed yet. Apple, is it you?