Want to change the Lock Screen or Home Screen background on your iPhone? You can choose a suggested wallpaper or one of your own photos.
Add a new wallpaper for your Lock Screen or Home Screen
In the Settings app, tap Wallpaper.
Tap Add New Wallpaper.
Tap Photos, People, Photo Shuffle, or Live Photo to choose your own photo. You can also select a wallpaper from a category like Weather & Astronomy, Kaleidoscope, Emoji, Unity, Pride, Collections, or Color.
If you want, you can customize your wallpaper further. Then tap Add.
Tap Set as Wallpaper Pair and your selection will be seen on both the Home Screen and Lock Screen. Tap Customize Home Screen to create a separate Home Screen wallpaper that you can edit.
Change your wallpaper from the Lock Screen
Make sure that you previously set up Face ID on your iPhone. To change your wallpaper from the Lock Screen, Face ID must clearly see your eyes and the areas around them.
On the Lock Screen, touch and hold your Lock Screen to open your wallpaper gallery.
To select a wallpaper you already created, swipe left and right. To add a new wallpaper, tap the Add button.
From the Lock Screen wallpaper options, you can also tap the Focus button to link a Focus to a specific wallpaper, customize existing wallpapers, or swipe up on a wallpaper and tap to delete it.
If you can't use Face ID to change your Lock Screen, touch and hold your Lock Screen until the Customize button appears. If the Customize button doesn’t appear, touch and hold the Lock Screen again, then enter your passcode.
Customize a Lock Screen wallpaper with filters, widgets, and styles
In the Settings app, tap Wallpaper.
Within the preview of your Lock Screen, tap Customize.
Tap the boxes to add favorite widgets and choose a font for the time.
Tap Done to save your customizations.
To choose a font and text color, tap the time.
To add or remove widgets — like Calendar, Clock, Weather, Fitness, or Reminders — tap the boxes above or below the time.
To apply photo styles — like Black & White, Duotone, or Color Wash — swipe left or right.
To crop and move your photo, pinch and drag your photo.
To select wallpaper options, tap the More button. Perspective Zoom moves the wallpaper as you tilt your screen. Depth Effect enables layering with the subject of your photo.*
Rotate multiple photos as your Lock Screen wallpaper
In the Settings app, tap Wallpaper.
Tap Add New Wallpaper.
Select Photo Shuffle from the top row of options.
On the Photo Shuffle screen, set a frequency (On Tap, On Lock, Hourly, or Daily). Then choose a set of photos that will shuffle as you use your iPhone throughout the day.
Make sure that you previously set up Face ID on your iPhone. To change your wallpaper from the Lock Screen, Face ID must clearly see your eyes and the areas around them.
On your phone's Home screen, touch and hold an empty space. Tap Wallpaper & style. If you don't see "Wallpaper & style," tap Wallpapers. Tap Change wallpaper.
Go to Settings > Wallpaper and you will see Wallpapers for Lock screen and Wallpaper. When you tap on, you will also see the options to choose the wallpaper. If Google wallpaper interfers please disable or uninstall Google wallpapers and try to use the System built-in interface to change the Wallpaper.
Swipe to the screen you want to change, tap Customize, then tap Lock Screen. Tap the time to change the font, color, and style. To add widgets that include information such as today's headlines, the weather, and calendar events, tap Add Widgets, the date, or the field below the time.
Wallpaper automation is possible via Apple's Shortcuts app.
With the latest iOS update, i.e. iOS 14.3, the Shortcuts app now gets wallpaper automation that allows you to change your iPhone's wallpaper automatically. Follow this guide as we tell you how to automate setting up wallpaper on your iPhone.
Press and hold on the lock screen, tap the Customize button that appears at the bottom, then tap Add New (you can't customize your existing wallpaper).
In iOS 16, one can also change the two wallpapers from the lock screen. All users have to do is press and hold on the iPhone's lock screen, swipe left or right to browse the available options, and tap to choose one.
You can create multiple custom Lock Screens and switch between them throughout the day. Touch and hold the Lock Screen until the Customize button appears at the bottom of the screen. Swipe to the Lock Screen you want to use, then tap it.
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