Saving Current Wallpaper as Photo?

My Lock Screen and wallpaper images are old photos that are no longer in my photo library. Since the phone keeps glitching to black background, I want to make sure I have copies of the images as backups. Is there any way to save these images to my photo library?

iPhone 13 Pro Max

Posted on Dec 15, 2022 2:53 PM

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Posted on Dec 16, 2022 10:06 AM

Those files are not stored in a user-accessible place. However, the files should be included in your backups. If you need to restore the phone from a backup, you should see your wallpaper. I've been transferring the same wallpaper from phone to phone for years.


The only other thing I can think of that you can do, if you haven't kept backups of the photos is to clear as much as you can off the screen and take a screenshot and use that.


From now on, make sure that you back up (not just sync to iCloud) important files.

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Dec 16, 2022 10:06 AM in response to cdgraves

Those files are not stored in a user-accessible place. However, the files should be included in your backups. If you need to restore the phone from a backup, you should see your wallpaper. I've been transferring the same wallpaper from phone to phone for years.


The only other thing I can think of that you can do, if you haven't kept backups of the photos is to clear as much as you can off the screen and take a screenshot and use that.


From now on, make sure that you back up (not just sync to iCloud) important files.

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