My iPhone keeps changing the wallpaper

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myquality wrote:

Strong language from me here…. I hate this! I hate that they won’t leave my wallpaper alone on my iPhone nor my Apple Watch! Nobody asked them to do this and there is NO option to make it STOP ! Apple!!!! Stop this now on the next iOS push please and thank you.

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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!

Agree 100%! it’s really annoying

still not fixed Apple?!? It is irritating...that scratch you cannot reach...being put on hold 15 mins...spam...

Thank you for this! I went in to settings and noticed that I had customized lock settings for both my Sleep Focus and Personal Focus. Have removed those and hopefully now won’t have this issue anymore.

Just an Update to My Post- I DID find out How to DELETE Focus Settings (but not Default choices), and I DID go thru Settings and NOT Customize ANY of my Focus Settings with a Wallpaper.

I will see If this will solve my ongoing arbitrary Wallpaper Changing problems. Again, TIA.

Just open the focus in setting and change any focus settings to your preferred wall paper and Lock Screen or even just remove the radio button to deselect any wall paper or lock screen. Then sleep your phone to get to the Lock Screen. Long press the screen and swipe up on the wallpaper you don’t want anymore. Then confirm delete by pressing the trash can symbol. Lastly swipe to the local screen you do want and unlock your phone. This should resolve your wallpaper and lock screen issues.

What kind of wallpaper are you using? Are you using multiple wallpapers? To find out, hold down the lock screen. If it is a photo lock screen, it could be shuffling on a daily basis. What kind of changes happen?

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

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

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.