Can’t set live wallpaper on iPhone SE

Why does it not have live wallpapers, I was really looking forward to finally have it like all my friends.. since I went from the 6 to Se 2020... I was really disappointed and sad when I saw that it didn’t have live wallpaper, it should be possible to add that in the next update. Since almost everybody wants it in the new update why not add it?

Can you please update the iPhone SE 2020 so that we can set live wallpapers. I’ve been trying to set one for ages only to find out that im not able to. The other phones since the iPhone 6 have it so why not the latest iPhone!?!?!?

Apple needs to definitely implement an update that gives the iPhone SE 2020 the ability to use live photos because I upgraded from an iPhone 7 to an iPhone SE 2020 and I tried changing my wallpaper to another live wallpaper yet it didn’t support it so now I lost my live wallpaper. I am very angry!!! Apple please update!!!

Dan1el_wg wrote:

iPhones 6s, Se, 7, 8, all x models and all 11’s support live wallpaper.

Nope. The original iPhone SE does not support it either.

iPhone se 2nd gen is the only iPhone since the 6s came out that doesn’t support it.

And note both iPhone SE models are/were the least expensive of the bunch.

Please, i want a Live Wallpaper on my iPhone SE 2020😭. I spend a lot of money for this phone. I was so excised for Live Wallpapers and they are not here. Please fix it on iOS 14 🥺❤️. Love you Apple. 

Hey so like my old phone was an 6 so I couldn’t get live wallpaper or anything bc it wouldn’t go past IOS 12.4, and so I got so excited to finally have live wallpaper on the SE but to only to find out it doesn’t have live wallpaper •_•

Dude I agree with everyone saying Apple needs to update their wallpaper settings because I was finally able to set a live on my 6s and now I have a new phone (2020) and I was so disappointed when I found out the lives didn’t work since I already had one set.

I am so angry I was looking forward to getting a live wallpaper. I spent ages trying to set one and then found out that it doesn’t support it. I wouldn’t have bought this phone if I had known I thought it was meant to be like iPhone 11 processor!!

Ellr wrote:

I wouldn’t have bought this phone if I had known I thought it was meant to be like iPhone 11 processor!!

You have (had?) fourteen days after purchasing the iPhone to exchange or return it.

Disappointing to be honest, I don’t understand why Apple decided to give live wallpapers to every phone but the new SE, it doesn’t make sense as it is supposed to be an update compared to the last SE. Won’t be buying another phone from Apple any time soon as it was something I was looking forward to.

That answer is not helpful, as you have answered the question with the problem. How about apple updates the iPhone se, because it has both the hardware and software capable of doing it. WE all know apple kept this feature out so it would seem less premium of a phone than it is. I also see that with iOS 14, the press and hold of notifications finally came to the phone, but still no live wallpapers. Yet. We would be happy to have it included in our iPhones. Thank you

thenachojoe wrote:

We would be happy to have it included in our iPhones.

Yeah, and we would all be happy to have our cars include a full self driving capability.

Economic and design decisions are rightly made by the company producing the product. You are shown the features and price, and offered the option to purchase or not.

That is very weird, because I have tried countless times to get my phone to have live wallpaper, yet it will not work in any way. The only reason for why it might work for you, is because you either have a beta iOS 14 version that lets you do it, or you transferred your phone data from an older phone that let you have a live wallpaper. You must have done something different, stinkyRat cuz we rly have tried everything (short of jailbreaking at least).

While looking at wallpaper options discovered this forum, is there a hardware limitation on the iPhone SE 2020 that means it’s unable to support live wallpapers? I’m asking as the SE hardware is mostly copied from the iPhone 8 which supports live wallpapers.

Hello,

I am in possession of an iPhone SE 2020 and I have discovered quite conflicting things, that is, the iPhone SE 2020 at the beginning supported live wallpapers like all current iPhones, but for a while not anymore, I have informed myself well and have found that iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone XR, iPhone SE 1a, iPhone SE 2nd do not support Live Wallpaper. The reason is that they have a technology called Haptic Touch and no longer the old 3D Touch, it is modern and theoretically better, but the question remains 1, why these iPhones that have the Haptic Touch a better technology than the old 3D Touch at first supported Live Wallpaper and now not?

So it means that even the iPhone 12 will not have live wallpapers as they have haptic touch and not 3D Touch.

But a doubt remains why Apple has decided to remove the Live Wallpaper on these iPhones that already had them at the start?

Anyway I wanted to congratulate those who had created the page relating to the Live wallpaper by marking only iPhone SE 1st / 2nd and iPhone XR, they can be a commercial choice, so people don't see the word iPhone 11 and are more drawn to the purchase or is it a typo ... Maybe a big mistake.

All this, however, I took it from the various pages of Apple where certain statements are contrary to others .... Great job anyway.