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
Completely annoying. It gives you the option to “set as current”, but then changes at random on its own. I’ve tried everything to keep it on my CHOSEN wallpaper to no avail. Definitely something that needs fixed.
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.
Does apple read these posts? Do they still think these features should be continued after seeing how many people are so frustrated by them. Do the software coders actually use the products they design? My experience is that with each new layer of sophistication, these devices get more and more goofy and do more and more silly things. I've begun to think trying some non-apple devices might be the way to go, but then I think the other manufacturer's coders probably also make overly sophisticated crazy stuff too. I'm hoping apple develops some common sense and reduces the amount of unwanted frustrating features or I will just have to actually make the jump to see for myself if another company sees the folly that apple evidently doesn't.
Help needed please. Just upgraded to the 15 pro max and I’ve just had it for 2 days and ready to go back to my 13.
Both phones have the current update so I’m good. BUT!!!! Why does the 15 keep changing the home and back ground screen to pictures that I don’t want and have no idea how it got on the phone. Once I go back and change it then put it as “set as current” it goes back to what every the phone wants to do AND IT goes straight to “Do not disturb” I changed all of the devices to not share settings.
Please someone help me to understand why this keeps happening. (I ain’t that old that I can’t fix it)😩
MamaMS wrote:
Help needed please. Just upgraded to the 15 pro max and I’ve just had it for 2 days and ready to go back to my 13.
Both phones have the current update so I’m good. BUT!!!! Why does the 15 keep changing the home and back ground screen to pictures that I don’t want and have no idea how it got on the phone. Once I go back and change it then put it as “set as current” it goes back to what every the phone wants to do AND IT goes straight to “Do not disturb” I changed all of the devices to not share settings.
Please someone help me to understand why this keeps happening. (I ain’t that old that I can’t fix it)😩
Do you have Focus set to change home screens based on the particular focus? Settings>Focus
My observations: Customized wallpapers, associating them with focus modes, was working well until the recent iOS 17.3 update (2024-01-22). Ever since, I too have wallpapers “changing by themselves”. I’ve noticed that unlike before, selecting a wallpaper (in Settings…Wallpaper…Set as Current) ALSO changes to any focus mode assigned to it. I believe that is unlike before, when the opposite occurred - changing focus mode also changed the assigned wallpaper (clearly the intended purpose of the feature).
Also, on my 14 Pro it seems to insist on reverting back to a particular wallpaper no matter what I do - this new bug, changing on its own. I can change any wallpaper associated setting, but it will not “stick”. Even locking the phone then upon next wake, the wallpaper is back to the one IT wants on all of the time.
Having a focus active seems so far to keep it’s assigned wallpaper, though I’m not quite certain of that yet.
In short, this is new, undesirable behavior the way it’s working now.
Have only just joined Apple Communities - have tried to find a concise answer through the past history of this thread - if anyone can help please.. so how do you replicate your ‘normal’ screen/wallpaper setup to carry over to the night mode if you switch to night-time/focus mode?
This whole wallpaper choices things is just technical ‘noise and confusion’
I’m all for updates/enhances/shortcuts but please give the consumer a transparent choice - maybe it was in the super, super, super fine print of an IOS update, but why interfere with a personal setup?
Thanks kindly for any current info anyone can provide
J 🌼
It was indeed irritating to have the wallpaper change and have the dumb filters. Luckily what one of the people said helped, and I realized when you are in the photos you can swipe up and the delete button will appear and you can delete the pictures you don’t want. Still!!! Dumb feature and that is why I don’t like to do the upgrade.
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.
Hello ~ Take a look here…
Change the wallpaper on your iPhone - Apple *
*Rotate multiple photos as your Lock Screen wallpaper
~Katana-San~
The thing is I haven’t done the photo shuffling. The wallpaper changes the minute I plugg it or when I restart it. Thanks though 💪🏻
My wallpaper keeps changing as well. I’ve also had times when I’m not getting my voicemail or notification of text sometimes for 12 hours.
Same issue! I’ve set the wallpaper through the Lock Screen & the settings, as well as a hard reboot. I absolutely HATE that it keeps changing, it’s driving me nuts! PLEASE FIX THIS!!
Have you tried setting wallpaper from the Settings app, rather than from the lock screen?
I’ve just done that and hoping it sticks
I have the same issue with the Lock Screen reverting back to the original after I change it.
Yes. No it doesn’t help.
My iPhone keeps changing the wallpaper