My iPhone keeps changing the wallpaper
My iPhone keeps changing the wallpaper when I charge it or when I reastart it. Is that normal? It happened after updating to iOS 16
iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 16
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My iPhone keeps changing the wallpaper when I charge it or when I reastart it. Is that normal? It happened after updating to iOS 16
iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 16
With my phone I can’t set wallpaper for more than 1 focus.
Its been happening to me too on my iphone 14 did apple told me keeps happening they are running diagnostics and they are supposed to call me back
Ok help here! I think it is a big bug
This is such bs. Been going on for WEEKS. Can’t even delete the photo it keep defaulting to!!! Insane and NO SUGGESTIONS HERE EITHER.
Did they EVER get back to you? Tell us if they did. Can’t find any fix. Nev are had so much garbage going on with my cheap little Android!!!! Ripoff!
This worked! Thanks!
What worked, Waverlyg?
I had added a wallpaper to one of my focus settings (Do Not Disturb). When I deleted the wallpaper custom settings it all went away and began functioning properly again.
Settings < focus then pick the particupfocus and delete any custom
wallpaper settings.
at least that resolved my issues
The issues seams to be adding your preferred wallpaper to a focus. If you add it, it’s going to always trigger that particular focus, being permanently associated to it.
In my case I had added my favorite wallpaper to a focus related to work. That wallpaper became exclusively linked to that focus, so any time I deactivate that focus, instead of maintaining that wallpaper, that should also be my default one, it changed to another wallpaper.
Once you remove the wallpaper from the focus mode, or choose a different one to replace it, the issue stops.
I think Apple could do something other than simply linking them permanently to a focus mode.
more than a year and nothing has been done, i ve sent a customer service help comment months ago and havent received feedback. its crazy thinking that they might have a iphone and they not having the same problem , this problem happens to me at leas 3 times a day everyday for the last year
What was helpful? This sucks!
Ok I think I found a few solutions since it seems we all have similar but different problems:
If you keep getting your old lockscreen as both the lock and home screens, and if it appears as an option in the wallpaper menu, follow this guide (https://www.laptopmag.com/how-to/how-to-delete-wallpaper-on-iphone) to delete that wallpaper pair and you’ll be able to select your custom wallpaper without it defaulting to the old one.
If you use any of the focus modes such as bedtime or do not disturb, go to Focus in settings and make sure there is no wallpaper in those sections. It should be blank, and if not there’s a (-) button that deletes them. The reason this one was buggy was because turning the focus modes off before their set times pass causes the focus modes to turn back on and select their designated wallpapers which gets really annoying.
If you get the exact same lock and Home Screen combination that you used to have before updating your phone, a mix of the two solutions above helped me fix that issue. (For now, not sure if it’ll come back)
If you believe you have one of these issues just restart your phone and see what wallpaper it turns into.
Thank you! I’ve played around a lot with all the solutions. Now it’s only happening when I charge it. Pretty much every time I plug it in it changes when open it back up. It’s still sucks but at least it’s only 1 or 2 times a day. No longer constant.
still no help from any professional apple employee
rikabe wrote:
still no help from any professional apple employee
No, nor should you expect any in these user-to-user forums. If you want to contact Apple, use the Support link at the bottom left of every page of these forums.
My iPhone keeps changing the wallpaper