How to Add a Different Home Screen Wallpaper on IOS 17 | Digital Trends

If you haven’t used an iPhone in a while or haven’t tried updating your lock screen, you might be excited about some of the new customization features available in iOS 17. Although iOS has made some controversial UI changes, such as: Other changes, such as moving notifications to the bottom of the lock screen, are also more welcome changes to the lock screen customization options.

iOS 16 introduced numerous lock screen customization features that allow you to customize your phone’s lock screen to your liking. The same features are also available in iOS 17. While the lock screen was once just a static image, you can now make it more dynamic with options like cycling through your photo collections so you can showcase your favorite photos of your pets, your family, or beautiful places you love. Have visited.

There are also options for displaying information like weather updates, which is handy for seeing at a glance whether you need an umbrella or a sweater when you go out, and there’s a really fun option for an astronomy-themed lock screen to display You can get views of the Earth, the Moon or the Solar System.

All of these lock screen options can be changed regardless of your home screen wallpaper. So if you want a different look for your home screen, you can do that too. Below we’ll show you how to set a custom home screen wallpaper in several ways so you can update and personalize your iPhone to your liking.

While the new StandBy mode in iOS 17 may mean you see your lock screen less often when your iPhone is charging, it only activates when you turn your phone sideways. So you can still leave it upright on the charger and still enjoy your lock screen, which works particularly well with the rich, full-color always-on display of Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.

Although you can still only set a static photo on your home screen to appear behind your app icons, you can now blur that background or spice it up a bit with some filters. What’s even more fun is that your home screen background is paired with each lock screen you set up, and therefore changes with each individual lock screen. By default you get a blurred version of the corresponding lock screen image, but you can set it to any other image in your photo library as before.

How to set a custom home screen wallpaper when configuring your lock screen

When you create a new lock screen wallpaper or edit an existing one, your iPhone offers a blurred version of the same wallpaper as the background on your home screen. It guides you to select this with a prominent selection Set as wallpaper pair However, you don’t have to accept this by default.

Step 1: Press and hold any empty space on your iPhone’s lock screen to open the lock screen picker.

Step 2: Create a new lock screen by selecting Plus sign in the lower right corner.

Step 3: Customize your new lock screen to your liking. For more information on what you can do here, see our article on customizing your iPhone lock screen in iOS 16.

Step 4: When you’re done, select Add (or Completed when editing an existing lock screen). A preview of your lock screen and home screen wallpapers will appear.

Step 5: Choose Customize the home screen to choose a different wallpaper for your home screen. A new Home screen wallpaper editing view opens.

Step 6: Select “Exit” using the options below. Couple selected (Original on iOS 16.0) to keep the same wallpaper as your lock screen; choose Color or gradient to select a static background, or select photos to select another image from your photo library.

Step 7: The color and gradient options are preset to use a background that matches your lock screen wallpaper. To choose a different color or gradient, select Color or gradient press the button a second time to enter the color selection.

Step 8: Choose Blur to choose whether to blur your home screen wallpaper. This option is only available if you use a matching lock screen wallpaper or custom photo. It is not active when a color or gradient is used, since in this case there is nothing to blur.

Step 9: Once you’ve customized your home screen wallpaper to your liking, select Completed in the upper right corner.

How to change your home screen’s current wallpaper from the lock screen

Apple has made it easier in iOS 16.1 to customize your home screen wallpaper directly from the lock screen, without having to go through the lock screen settings first.

Step 1: Press and hold any empty space on your iPhone’s lock screen to open the lock screen picker.

Step 2: Swipe left or right to find the lock screen you want to edit the corresponding home screen wallpaper for.

Step 3: Choose Adjust Click the button below the lock screen image.

Step 4: Tap the home screen wallpaper on the right. The Home screen wallpaper editing view opens.

Step 5: Choose from the options below Couple (Original on iOS 16.0) to use the same wallpaper as your lock screen, Color or gradient to choose a static background, or photos to select another image from your photo library.

Step 6: If you use Pair/Original or Photos, you can choose Blur to turn on and off the blurring of the image on your home screen.

Step 7: When you’re done, select Completed to return to the lock screen selection.

Step 8: Select the lock screen of your choice to exit the lock screen selection.

How to change your home screen wallpaper from the Settings app

You can also quickly select a new home screen wallpaper for your current lock screen, just like setting wallpapers in previous versions of iOS. This will skip the step of opening the lock screen wallpaper editor and instead take you straight to choosing a home screen wallpaper.

As long as you’re using iOS 16.1 or later (and you really should be by now), you can swipe between your different wallpaper pairs or add a new one by tapping + Add new wallpaper Button.

Step 1: Open the Settings app on your iPhone.

Step 2: Choose background. A preview of your current lock screen and home screen wallpaper will be displayed.

Step 3: Choose Adjust Click the button to the right below the background preview on the home screen. The Home screen wallpaper editing view opens.

Step 4: Choose from the options below Couple (Original on iOS 16.0) to use the same wallpaper as your lock screen, Color or gradient to choose a static background, or photos to select an image from your photo library.

Step 5: Choose Blur to toggle the blurring of a background image on and off.

Step 6: When you are happy with your home screen wallpaper, select Completed in the top right corner to save your selection and return to wallpaper settings.

If you customized your wallpaper to use a color, gradient, or separate photo and later decide you want to go back to using the paired wallpaper on your lock screen, repeat the steps above and select that Couple option (or Original under iOS 16.0).

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