To continue Apple’s celebration of black culture, the company has released new (and beautiful) “Unity” wallpapers. This addition to Apple’s Black Unity Collection comes on the heels of Apple’s launch of Unity themed watch faces, Apple Watches and Apple Watch bands, available now at any Apple Store.
As a reminder, the Black Unity Collection takes its colors from the Pan-African flag, emphasizing “a symbol that unites people in the African diaspora.” As Apple wrote earlier when launching its new watch faces:
“Red represents the blood that unites the people of the African diaspora and was shed for their liberation. Black is for the people whose lives are confirmed by the flag. And green symbolizes the vibrant, natural wealth of Africa, the motherland. “
The new Unity wallpapers are a little bit buried on Apple’s website. To find them, pull it Apple Watch page, then click the “More Information” link, which appears here:
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That will bring up the following screen:
Scroll down and you will find the links to the Mac, iPad and iPhone wallpapers. Click “Download Wallpaper” to download them all and then transfer them to your device however you want. (As a Windows user, I find it easiest to just upload the wallpaper to the Photos app at icloud.com, but you can use a number of other techniques.)
As a reminder, you can change your macOS wallpaper by clicking the Apple logo in the top left corner and go to System Preferences> Desktop & Screen Saver.
On iOS / iPadOS you have to Settings app and navigate to the appropriate name Wallpaper section. And yes, Apple’s offering is just one Unity wallpaper for each device. Those of you looking for a nicer option like a dynamic wallpaper that changes color depending on the time of day will have to look elsewhere for a background with a similar theme. Or you can also use an online tool to create different color-shifted versions of the Unity wallpaper, then use an app to combine them together into a single dynamic background. That’s a bit of work, but it looks great.