How to disable change Wallpaper from Lock Screen

aLertz wrote:

First time iPhone user here(15 Pro Max) and I 100% agree that this "Feature" is really annoying. Already submitted the product feedback.

I do hope they will include an option to disable this.

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

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.

ronak220 wrote:

First you go the setting option and go the walpaper option and tap on the walpaper and and choose from gallery any photo you want and select the photo and you can customise the photo and you can change the walpaper easylily

That is correct, but is irrelevant because it doesn’t answer the question in the original post, which is how you can set it to NOT change the wallpaper.

This Feature is cool but EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING!!! My phone will be locked. I pick it up and while I’m carrying it if I happen to press on the locked screen for a few seconds while holding it, it will open the new change home screen. I need to disable it ASAP! But can’t find a way to. Because of my job I’m needing to carry a bunch of things along with my phone through the work day. And I deal with this multiple times a day. It’s SUPER annoying!

That's just the problem: it's a "cool" feature. The need to constantly provide "cool" new features and "better" models of phones is more important than making them simply usable. The market is not 100% comprised of 25-year old guys.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pwntendo wrote:

I pray with every update. in the hope that they will turn it off or give the choice to disable this function. I hate my iPhone because of this bug.

Praying is unlikely to have any effect on Apple. Submit feedback to them directly:

Product Feedback - Apple

Which device am I navigating? Am I holding an iPhone? Is it one of the primary options in Settings? Is this a feature of iOS 17? Searching on iPhone 16.6 ion "iOS",Advanced", "Restrictions" comes up with nada.

skipper worse wrote:

This "feature" clearly qualifies as a bug. I assume this will addressed in a future update.

But I wonder how it passed QC

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

A bug is something that is unintended. It's pretty clear that Apple intended for people to be able to change the wallpaper this way. Not everything we dislike is a bug.

Pete-in-VA wrote:

This drives me CRAZY! Tell me Apple—How can I **** can this feature! I like my phone just the way it’s been for ten years!

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. Apple does not read here for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

ConnieMcC wrote:

In the meantime, it's evident that "leaving Feedback" isn't working in this case. But since the only feedback from the Feedback would be a fix, there's no way to tell whether our "suggestions" have even been read.

Asking Apple for a change doesn't necessarily mean that Apple will implement that change. Or, if they do, it may take time, sometimes a long time. No one here knows how many other things Apple is working on or what their roadmap for changes looks like. All you can do, other than to submit feedback, is to decide how much emotional energy you're going to expend on this issue.

If your phone is getting woken easily traveling in a bag, it's because you have Tap to Wake turned on. It has nothing to do with the side button. I'd recommend you turn Tap to Wake off. We've seen MANY people come here who carry their phone in a bag or pants pocket with Tap to Wake enabled, and with enough movement have gotten themselves locked out of their iPhone after enough taps are interpreted as passcode attempts.

To turn off Tap to Wake, go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Tap or Swipe to Wake