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Changing your iPhone lock screen and home screen wallpaper is probably the most effective way of making your phone look and feel unique. Now you can take your wallpaper to the next level by creating or modifying your own designs in just a few taps—no app required.
Create Your Own iPhone Wallpapers
You can create your own wallpapers using the lock screen gallery. To access the gallery, tap and hold the lock screen to reveal it.
From here, you can tap “Customize” to modify your existing lock screen or tap the plus “+” icon to create a new lock screen.
Creating a new lock screen will take you straight to the wallpaper picker. You’ll then see a few options at the top of the screen that will allow you to create your own wallpaper:
You can create multiple wallpapers and save them to the lock screen gallery, then switch between them as you please by tapping and holding your lock screen at any time.
Probably the most fun you may have here is by creating custom emoji and color wallpapers. Creating wallpapers using your own photos is easier using these tools too. There’s no need to edit or apply filters to your photos inside the Photos app first.
Some photos can even be used to create a depth effect that overlays subjects on top of the clock (thoughgetting this to workis a bit hit-and-miss).
Related:Why Is My iPhone Depth Effect Wallpaper Not Working?
Pick From Existing Designs
you’re able to also use the lock screen gallery to pick from existing or featured designs. Take a look at the “Featured” and “Collections” areas to see some of Apple’s best offerings.
iOS will also put photos in the “Suggested Photos” slider that should work well on a lock screen, many of which are compatible with the depth effect mentioned above.
Remember that if youuse widgets on your lock screen, you lose the ability to use the depth effect.
There’s also a huge range of apps in the App Store for creating or downloading custom wallpapers, including,Vellum,Everpix, andPixs. Unlike those apps, Apple’s built-in options are completely free to use.
Requires iOS 16 or Newer
You can access the new wallpaper creation tools and lock screen gallery using iOS 16. If you don’t see the lock screen gallery when you long-press your lock screen, you might need toupdate your iPhone to iOS 16.
Learn if your device iscompatible with iOS 16andwhat else is worth checking out in the September 2022 update.
