How To Add a Clock To Your Mac Desktop

You can use a variety of apps to add a live clock to your Mac's desktop wallpaper background. Each app has it own style, features and settings.

Comments: 7 Responses to “How To Add a Clock To Your Mac Desktop”

    nick
    3 years ago

    hey Gary, I miss the dashboard widgets we used to have in Sierra, lots of useful stuff in there and a clock as well. Any idea why they got rid of them? thx

    3 years ago

    nick: I don't know for sure, but I don't think many people used the old Dashboard Widgets, and they wanted to replace them with the current method. There is a clock widget in the Notifications Center if you like that.

    nick
    3 years ago

    Gary: in Mac OS is the Notification Center on the upper right-hand corner?

    3 years ago

    nick: Right. In Catalina when you click that, you get Notifications or Today. Today shows widgets. At the bottom you can go to Edit and add a Clock widget. In Big Sur it is combined into one view and the Clock widget is better.

    Robert
    3 years ago

    Thanks for the tips.

    Gus Soj
    3 years ago

    Hi Gary, do you happen to know a terminal script/tutorial to pin the international clock on desktop for Big Sur? I use it all the time and it is really annoying to have to scroll the widgets down every time.

    3 years ago

    Gus: Widgets work in that space only. You can't have it display elsewhere. I'd look for an app that displays a clock on your desktop or in the menu bar instead.

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