Change wallpaper on your Pixel phone (2024)

Important:

• Some of these steps work only on Android 10 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
• Some of these steps require you to touch the screen.

1. On your phone's home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
2. Tap Wallpaper My photos.
3. Select a photo.
4. Tap Effects .
5. Turn on Create Cinematic wallpaper.
6. To preview your wallpaper, tap Home screen Lock screen.
7. To select a wallpaper location, tap Home screen, Lock screen or Home and lock screens.

1. Choose an emoji or get a random assortment:
   1. On your phone's home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
   2. Tap Wallpaper and style Change wallpaper Emoji Workshop.
   3. At the bottom right, tap Edit emoji Done .
   4. Choose your emoji.
      • For a particular emoji: Select from the keyboard. You can choose up to 14 emojis to decorate your wallpaper.
      • For a random assortment: Tap Randomise.
2. Select a pattern and size:
   1. On the bottom panel, tap Patterns.
   2. Select a pattern style.
   3. To change emoji size on the pattern, use the slider.
3. Select a colour:
   1. On the bottom panel, tap Colours.
   2. Select a wallpaper colour.
4. Preview and set your wallpaper:
   1. To preview your emoji wallpaper, tap Lock screen Home screen.
   2. When your preview looks right, tap Set wallpaper.
   3. To select a wallpaper location, tap Home screen or Home and lock screens.

Important: AI wallpapers may not be available for certain account types, such as Family Link accounts.

You can use generative AI to create custom and unique wallpapers based on your own prompts. You can:

• Access the new wallpaper through the current wallpaper options.
• Fill in the blanks to create a prompt in a pre-written template.
• Choose different options to fine-tune the final result.
• Save created wallpapers for reuse later.

To generate an AI wallpaper:

1. On your phone's home screen, tap and hold an empty space.
2. Tap Wallpaper and style More wallpapers AI wallpaper.
3. Choose a theme to create your AI-generated wallpaper.
4. Tap Inspire me to get a random wallpaper for your chosen prompt.
5. Tap any underlined word in the prompt to explore specific options.
6. To generate a wallpaper, tap Create wallpaper.
7. Choose between several AI-generated wallpapers by swiping left or right.
8. To set the wallpaper, tap Done and select Lock screen or Home screen Set wallpaper.

Tip: Once used, the wallpaper is saved so you can reuse it again later.

1. On your phone's home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
2. Tap Wallpaper and style Lock screen.
3. Above the caption ' Clock colour and size', swipe left or right to see style options.
4. Tap Colour and select the colour that you want.
   Tip: To make the colour lighter or darker, use the slider.
5. Tap Size and select the size that you want.
   • Dynamic: Clock size changes according to lock screen content
   • Small
6. To save your style changes, tap the left arrow .

To pick your home screen's fonts, icons, shapes and colours:

1. On your phone’s home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
2. Tap Wallpaper and style.
3. Tap Wallpaper colours or Basic colours.
4. Choose a style.
5. Tap Apply or Done .

To pick the grid size on your Home screen:

1. On your phone’s home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
2. Tap Wallpaper and style.
3. At the bottom, tap App grid.
4. Choose a grid size.
5. Tap Done .

1. On your phone's home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
2. Tap Wallpaper and style.
3. Tap Change wallpaper.
   • Daily wallpaper doesn't work with your personal photos or live wallpapers.
4. Choose a wallpaper category.
5. At the top right, tap Daily wallpaper .
6. Tap OK.

To change supported app icons to match your phone’s colour scheme:

1. On your phone’s home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
2. Tap Wallpaper and style.
3. At the bottom, tap Themed icons to turn it on or off.