How to disable change Wallpaper from Lock Screen

I just thought of the easiest way to solve this (for Apple) you could allow us the option for “hold to customize” Lock Screen as an attention aware. Meaning you would need to be looking at the device to change your Lock Screen so it doesn’t accidentally change. Or you could just simply give us the option to turn off “hold to customize”. Please do one of these I beg you

Well, and why not? Seems like trawling comments on the support community would be a great way to determine which "features" might need some tweaking. But parsing our words is only lucrative if it's used to serve up ads. Alas, a new iOS version with "Finally! Annoying wallpaper lock screen fixed!" is probably not going to sell any iPhones. It would only clean up some bad UX design, but no, we must always go forward.

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.

This “feature” is insanely infuriating. I put my LOCKED phone in my pocket, and when I pull it from my pocket the wallpaper has changed. Nearly every time. Makes me want to smash my phone. I am +1 for a fix, a toggle to disable this”feature”. Anything. It is beyond stupid behavior.

I don’t have an Apple Watch so that is not interfering. I simply want my phone to stay on the wallpaper I’ve chosen. At this point, the only option I see is to delete any and all wallpaper from the phone.

At this point the thread is more a source of amusement. Looks like there are other threads on the topic that might have some useful workarounds. (As I've said before, I appreciate the work of those who help us out when solutions are possible .)

The reply above that says you can't do this from your lockscreen is plain wrong. You can start Lockscreen Customizing when the screen is locked. That's why it's so annoying. Happens to me all the time and it's driving me mad. Apple please make this an option.

Thank you for the link. I have submitted another report for this feature. Should be a simple option to turn off in the settings app. Anyone reading this please follow along and submit a bug report using the link above.

Apple must have needed this ‘skin’ or feature for something important to them to put something so ridiculous in and totally ignore the feedback on it. I noticed that the other feature that’s changed is the phone doesn’t ‘wake’ immediately with the side button from ‘rest’ but meanwhile if in my bag gets activated easily - all totally counter intuitive to usage. Meanwhile 1000s post about this and hundreds thousands put up and Apple doesn’t seem to take note.

True- the reason I have it on is so I can start using it easily when it’s lying flat and for eg. I can only use one hand but infact tapping it doesn’t really work ( previous iPhones it did) and requires much more of a thumb contact not just a tap. But in the bag it’s quite easily dialing someone so overall I did decide to turn it off, thanks

I did prefer previous versions ( going back to iPhone 5 maybe even before) where I could access easily beyond the Home Screen without swiping the home screen away - there should be an option to use the phone without a home screen as it’s just an added layer in the way and now it’s got this ridiculous second skin option which seems not at all useful. What I don’t get is how is it supposed to benefit the user?

I get the Home Screen is a privacy layer but if I’m at home it would be helpful to have the option to turn it off .

Dear Apple. What part of LOCKED do you not understand? Seriously. For the love of all that is holy, STOP PUTTING INTERACTIVE THINGS ON THE **LOCK** SCREEN. If I wanted to change the wall paper of cancel a timer I’d UNLOCK the phone. Derp.

louschweiz wrote:

True- the reason I have it on is so I can start using it easily when it’s lying flat and for eg. I can only use one hand but infact tapping it doesn’t really work ( previous iPhones it did) and requires much more of a thumb contact not just a tap. But in the bag it’s quite easily dialing someone so overall I did decide to turn it off, thanks

I did prefer previous versions ( going back to iPhone 5 maybe even before) where I could access easily beyond the Home Screen without swiping the home screen away - there should be an option to use the phone without a home screen as it’s just an added layer in the way and now it’s got this ridiculous second skin option which seems not at all useful. What I don’t get is how is it supposed to benefit the user?

I get the Home Screen is a privacy layer but if I’m at home it would be helpful to have the option to turn it off .

If you turn off Tap to Wake, instead of tapping the screen to wake your iPhone, you just press the side power button to wake it, instead. Give it a try and see.

You can only tap to close it if you actually looking onto the screen!

But this annoying „inconvenience“ happens every time when I use the flashlight from the lock screen and while lighting on something if any part of my hand makes contact with the screen it switches my backgrounds around or doing other stuff.

The Lock Screen has a right to exist for obvious reasons, but the way to access this feature is completely contradictory to the design philosophy of a LOCK screen.

IMHO: The possibility to leaving the lock screen by simply laying your hand on the screen is bad practice…

It's not a bug if it's a feature that is working as designed, and this is how Apple decided it should work.

You are, of course, free to disagree and if you do disagree, let them know at the link below:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

In these days of AI, it seems "odd" that a website that has "apple.com" in its address wouldn't be monitored by apple employees. Where is there a better source of feedback about user interfaces? Maybe AI algorithms could also tackle the problem of software just being too complex for anyone to understand it, let alone fix bugs.

If they haven't done anything about this you can be sure it was introduced for a reason which is far outweighs our frustrations- what that is for people who know the reason can't say and certainly not on this forum and those who don't know never will be able to.

the amount of nonsense apple put on the lock is crazy every time I take my phone out of my pocket something has activated without me doing anything, it’s like this billion dollar company don’t listen to customers anymore