Use Apple TV 4K’s Snoopy Screensavers on Your Mac
The Apple TV 4K has introduced a delightful feature: animated Snoopy screensavers, complementing its stunning landscape and cityscape options. Here’s the guide to adding these charming animations to your Mac.
After securing the rights to classic “Charlie Brown” episodes and creating new content, Apple incorporated Snoopy into not just their streaming service but also into the Apple Watch. With tvOS 18.2, users now have access to four enchanting animated screensaver scenes featuring this beloved character.
While transferring these screensavers from an Apple TV device to your Mac might seem complex at first glance, each step is straightforward. The results are worth it for charming animations such as:
- Snoopy crafting his next literary work
- Snoopy exploring outer space
- Snoopy engaging in a game of football with Woodstock
- Woodstock and Snoopy enjoying a film together in a theater
Essential Steps for Downloading the Screensavers
To download these whimsical animated scenes onto your computer successfully, follow these steps:
- Retrieve the screensaver files.
- Utilize a third-party application for storage.
- Select them through Settings under Screen Saver options.
Step One: Downloading Screensavers using Xcode
The first part can be somewhat intricate due to the requirement of utilizing Apple’s Xcode development application coupled with some Terminal commands. The good news is that Xcode is available for free via the Mac App Store!
You’ll need to set up an environment resembling app development — don’t worry; you won’t need advanced programming skills!
Open Xcode
Select Settings from the File menu
Click on Components
Ensure tvOS 18.2 is marked for download
Once it downloads successfully, close that window
Choose File > New > Project...
In this dialog box select tvOS category from top row
Click App followed by Next
Name your project 'Snoopy'
For Organization Identifier write anything (like your name)
Hit Next
Save everything on Desktop for easy access later
Quit Xcode Navigating Terminal Applications
Now you’ll shift focus towards Apple’s Terminal app located within Applications under Utilities directory—or you can initiate it swiftly via Spotlight search.
Using Terminal Command Line Tools Effectively
The Terminal functions as command-line software requiring manual typing of specific commands; however, online resources often have ready-made commands which you can easily copy-paste instead!
For instance :
Thanks to YouTuber MacProTips: Once you’ve launched Terminal paste this line:
cd '/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Volumes/tvOS_22K154/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/tvOS 18.2.simruntime'Hit Enter—this command will switch directories allowing access where XCode saved those screensaver files.
Next step would involve modifying another part through copying & pasting:
mkdir ~/Desktop/appletv_resources && sudo find . ( -name "*.mov" -o -name "*.heic") -exec cp {} ~/Desktop/appletv_resources ;,
This should generate appletv_resources folder on desktop containing all available files including displays following their respective formats.
Now that everything appears organized closely:
1. Open newly generated folder,
2 Switch view mode by Size noting larger files occupy top positions.
Determining valid Snoppy versions requires previews—use Space bar searching relevant entries while iterating down (at present there exist four distinct movements available).
Once identified collect bunch into one designated folder which equals ultimate concentrating task highlighting exclusive material within newly allocated directory assuring active usage by mac type devices.
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