How to disable change Wallpaper from Lock Screen

Drives me INSANE! STILL NO FIX ?!

You can’t fix what isn’t broken. If you accidentally enter Customize mode just tap once on the screen and it will go away.

Tap where? Apparently tapping on the screen is how you proceed with customization.

As for the "feature not a bug" aspect: what it is is nonsensical User Interface, as if Apple has no master UI plan, UI standards, or formal user testing beyond superusers trying out betas. A "setting" like this that appears without any intentional actions should have been evaluated and rejected in the design phase (if such a phase has any rigor at Apple.) All this especially since it's connected to the Focus UI subsystem, already way too complicated and incomprehensible.

I always wonder if sometimes some feature gets implemented because some programmer guy thought it would be "cool" while knowing absolutely nothing about how the rest of the world uses the device.

Tap anywhere except the word Customize.

ConnieMcC wrote:

Tap where? Apparently tapping on the screen is how you proceed with customization.

No, tapping on the screen will not trigger this. You need to press and hold.

I always wonder if sometimes some feature gets implemented because some programmer guy thought it would be "cool" while knowing absolutely nothing about how the rest of the world uses the device.

As every release of iOS goes through extensive alpha and beta testing, this seems highly unlikely.

Customize should only appear if you touch AND HOLD the screen for 2 seconds. And if you just tap it again it will go back to normal. If Customize appears other than when you TOUCH AND HOLD then there is either a defective digitizer in the phone, or you are doing something to trigger it, such as carrying the phone in your pocket with the screen against your body. If that is what you are doing you should make 2 changes in your habits:

• Go to Settings/FaceID & Password and turn off Raise to Wake
• Carry the phone with the screen away from your body

And a 3rd recommendation: put the phone in a slip case or a folio “wallet” case to better protect your $1,000+ investment.

This may seem counterintuitive, but the screen is the more easily replaced component if it breaks; replacing the back is a much bigger deal.

Appreciate the distinctions on where and how. Someone else on a duplicate thread says you have to "tap"on the actual world "customize" in order to get into the customization mode.

Formal user testing would be different from alpha and beta testing: it would involve having naive users attempt to do certain tasks, while observers record their attempts and make note of common missteps and misunderstandings (such as unintentionally bringing up an option and not knowing what to do.) It would cost money, take time, be tedious, and send things back to the design drawing board rather than fixing bugs and crashes. Instead we have this (and Reddit), which kind of works, is apparently inexpensive and seems to result in incomplete or nonexistent feedback to Apple design teams themselves.

ConnieMcC wrote:

Formal user testing would be different from alpha and beta testing: it would involve having naive users attempt to do certain tasks, while observers record their attempts and make note of common missteps and misunderstandings (such as unintentionally bringing up an option and not knowing what to do.) It would cost money, take time, be tedious, and send things back to the design drawing board rather than fixing bugs and crashes.

And how do you know Apple doesn't do that? The fact that you don't like the feature doesn't mean it wasn't carefully considered by Apple. Although I don't usually recommend it, you are free to download and test the public betas and submit all the feedback you want to Apple. They have a special feedback procedure for people who are beta testing.

Instead we have this (and Reddit), which kind of works, is apparently inexpensive and seems to result in incomplete or nonexistent feedback to Apple design teams themselves.

This forum is not intended as a place to submit feedback to Apple. Reddit most certainly isn't. If you want to submit feedback to Apple, go to Apple's dedicated feedback page:

Product Feedback - Apple

ConnieMcC wrote:

Appreciate the distinctions on where and how. Someone else on a duplicate thread says you have to "tap"on the actual world "customize" in order to get into the customization mode.

Formal user testing would be different from alpha and beta testing: it would involve having naive users attempt to do certain tasks, while observers record their attempts and make note of common missteps and misunderstandings (such as unintentionally bringing up an option and not knowing what to do.)

Beta testing is done mostly by naive users, as over a million normally sign up for the public beta for each release. The initial beta is closed until the more serious bugs are identified, but even that is open to all developers and invited “appleseed” users, and there are easily over 100,000 of those. So by the release date there have been 3 to 6 months of testing by over a million users most of them like you. Why don’t you sign up for the current iOS 17 beta, so you can make contributions→Apple Beta — FAQ

I find it very annoying also. When I’m carrying several items, including my phone, it happens often. Once when I discovered it, it was at the “are you sure you want to delete this” point.

there should be an option in settings to lock this feature.

jimwilliams57 wrote:

I find it very annoying also. When I’m carrying several items, including my phone, it happens often. Once when I discovered it, it was at the “are you sure you want to delete this” point.

there should be an option in settings to lock this feature.

Have you let Apple know: the best place to suggest something to Apple is here→Product Feedback - Apple

This is a user-to-user forum, with minimal Apple participation. 

Two things that work for me with this annoying feature is to disable touch to wake. So you have to push the side button and then slide up to open and/ change the haptic rate from fast to slow. This means the press on the screen needs a longer press to activate the change wallpaper.

found in accessibility, touch.

10x a day, I look at my phone and it will have changed the wallpaper!

This is the dumbest idea. Who on earth needs to change wallpaper so often and quickly that they would appreciate this?!

I’ve set my phone to go to camera when I tap the back 3x- why not just do that for wallpaper if you need it so badly? It never happens accidentally.

I guess I should make my screen lock faster? I guess unlocking it another 50x a day could be less irritating…

customise appears every time i pick up my phone every time i pull my phone out of my pocket and anytime i am c carrying my phone. Pretty hard to carry it without touching the screen.

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This is an idiotic design flaw that results in my iphone prompting me to change my wallpaper at least 3-4 times a day. It happens any time I move my finger on the screen the wrong way. I was carrying my phone in my hand during an event and I counted that this happed SEVEN TIMES IN TWO HOURS. No. I don’t want to change my wallpaper. If I did, I’d take the time to do it the classic way.

I understand this is a design flaw related to the Apple Watch. I thought I had adjusted a setting to fix it but it hasn’t worked. This can’t possibly be that hard to fix. FIX IT.