"You cannot use the Aerial screen saver with this version of OS X." message

[ghost]

"You cannot use the Aerial screen saver with this version of OS X." message

If you get a message saying You cannot use the Aerial screen saver with this version of OS X. Please contact the vendor to get a newer version of the screen saver. that is a known bug with macOS that was reported to Apple in April 2016 as rdar://25569037. As of November 2017 the bug is still not fixed. To work around the bug:

• select the Aerial screensaver in System Preferences
• close System Preferences with Aerial selected
• reopen System Preferences and the preview should work now

Any chance you can get this working in MacOS 10.14? The workaround suggested above doesn't work here anymore (could also be a bug of the OS, but never experienced it with Sierra and High Sierra).

[innrwrld]

I also never experienced any issues with it on Sierra or High Sierra. So far on Mojave it works, but it does take a moment for the screen to actually unlock properly. Maybe it's having some difficulty spinning down the aerial service as the unlock authentication completes.

[ghost]

Does it work in System Preferences screen-saver preview, as well? Cause...that one doesn't work for me.

[innrwrld]

No, in System Preferences preview it shows the alert for me. It works normally as it seems like the service is still running properly, just having some issues stopping as you authenticate. I imagine the project owner could pull a new copy of the service from the upcoming tvOS & do this the same way.

[ghost]

Yep. So it's just the preview (and I suppose the actual screensaver settings) that don't work. But if you apply it, it will work. It's just that it won't stop properly when you try to authenticate.

And yeah, I hope the owner can fix this. Cause, at least to me, it's by far the best screensaver I've used so far.

[alistairmcmillan]

Closing as duplicate of #464