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.
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.
To change the wallpaper for just the Home Screen on your iPhone, navigate to Settings > Wallpaper and then choose 'Customize' under the wallpaper you would like to change.
With iOS 16, iPhone users can easily set different home screen and lock screen wallpapers. Apple's latest mobile operating system adds more customization options to the iPhone than ever. For instance, users can customize their lock screen font color and widgets.
Bottom line: wallpaper refers to the image, background refers to a concept in a multi-windowed environment. It would be more appropriate to use "background". Windows declared that it was wallpaper a long time ago, but I hesitate to use that term. It is a background (before anything else) and can be referred to as such.
Here's how it works. To remove the background from a photo in iOS 16, long-press your finger on the photo's subject. When the outer edges of the subject start swirling, tap the Copy button that pops up. If you now go into another app, and tap Paste, the photo's subject will be put there, minus the background.
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.
To change these settings, choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Screen Saver in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) The screen saver currently used on your Mac.
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