Location of Apple Desktop Pictures in macOS Monterey

If you are wondering where the image files of your Apple Desktop backgrounds are, you can simply navigate to the following folder.

/System/Library/Desktop Pictures

To get to this folder, in case you don't want to remember the path, you can also do this.

• Right-click on the Desktop
• Change Desktop Background
• Double-click on "Desktop Pictures"

To navigate to the folder with Terminal.

open "/System/Library/Desktop Pictures"

To navigate to the folder with Finder.

• Menu bar › Go › Go to Folder..
• /System/Library/Desktop Pictures
• Go