Wallpaper disappearance

My disappearing wallpaper issue persisted for a while. After one of the OS updates (I think 16.0) occurred, the problem vanished. I do change my wallpaper regularly so, I’m unsure if the changing and/or OS updating was the fix. Obviously, there’s still a bug.

I'm thinking it may have to do with the wallpaper that was carried over when I converted from my iphone 6 to my 13. It worked fine for a nearly a year, so it's definitely related to an update. Incredibly frustrating that there are comments here dating back some time before 16.2. I suspect there is no one from the Apple Dev organization that looks at the support community.

This just happened to me turned my phone off and back on and it came back. Used my iphone14s all afternoon and randomly disappeared again. If people were complaining in October and it’s January 8th shouldn’t it be resolved by now?

Mine is still very random. Can go days fine. Then it suddenly disappears. Then it’ll come back again, without restarting my phone. Very frustrating.

I am still using the same photo I used on my previous phone (I transferred everything to new phone using the Apple tool).

I would say the wallpaper is visible more often than it’s invisible but still not good. And as a few have commented, this has been happening for months now, across several iOS updates.

I have iPhone 13 Pro Max. I’ve been experiencing the lock screen & wallpaper problem for too long. Until today I was able to eventually get my 2 pictures back but today it’s just allowing me to use 1 picture for both. Hope my terminology is correct.

My photo of my dear departed dogs got so zoomed in I only see one of my two dog’s nose on my wallpaper. The original photo is nowhere on my phone. Now I have to find the original in a box hopefully!

Horrible! Feel terrible for others that lost a precious photo. Worst update! Hate the new wallpaper settings!

I recently downloaded the updated iOS version to my iPhone XR yesterday and the inner Wallpaper keeps disappearing and after I turn on and off my iPhone it suddenly appears but only a few seconds at a time?!? Sometimes I think I should’ve downloaded the new update thing because it messed up my wallpaper on my phone?!?

This worked for me - hope it helps you too: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254317291

Me, too! Several times and it keeps happening.

The Apple Community Specialist’s (OrigamiFan1) suggestion is not helpful. I’ve tried that process several times but to no avail. The *blip* keeps reoccurring.

Update - since installing 16.1.1 the issue appears to have gone away - fingers crossed that I’m right and don’t see a recurrence of the issue 👍🏻

Mine 13 was updated to 16.1.1 before I left the shop!

Tonight, after a reboot cleared the problem, it returned after about 30 minutes. :(

…well, it was too good to be true. The disappearing wallpaper bug has reappeared in 16.1.1.

The latest IOS update 16.1.1 seems to have cleared up my disappearing wallpaper issue. Strange, but glad the problem has gone away, too.

Now my screen hasn't gone to no wallpaper for about 12 hours now!