iOS 16.4.1 now eliminates my iPhone wallpaper and replaces it with all-black on all screens

It looks like, at least for me, this is straightening itself out. When I returned home after dinner, I got an announcement on my MBP that DND (Focus) is OFF. The cloud seems to have caught up. I know I was a little behind in figuring out exactly what DND (Focus) actually did after they renamed it "focus". After messing with it, it's going to be very helpful providing me with options within the usual DND blanket approach. Now I'll make the first request to have a timer added so I can take a nap, and keep napping, unless someone/something interrupts the nap after a specific time...

😊 Your statement is true, but only because of math…

Oftentimes people ramble on, and on, update this, update that, when only a setting needs to be adjusted. It only math, really. If Apple never released an update, people couldn’t blame the update when things go wrong.

The more times Apple releases an update, the more times people will have an issue after an update, if you follow me. They would've still had the issue, but it just so happens that because of the many updates Apple is releasing, the issue happened after a Software Update. And then, whose to blame? Well, the biggest “change” to their iPhone, of course. A software update.

So this is why people are quick to blame an update. Issues in iOS updates will affect a few million people, don’t forget. You would certainly hear about it.

I hope you understood my POV.

PS: I may have stated some unstable facts.

Have a lovely day, thegame310!

Thanks for that information!

I don’t know how you guys get totally black lock screens with your Focused. First off, what’s the point of picking a wallpaper for a Focus if it turns black?

You also said, Mr. Finch: “Further, if you don’t have a wallpaper assigned to DND it will revert to a black screen.” I don’t have a wallpaper set for any Focus, and with DND, it simply darkens the wallpaper now. (I found the setting to do this in the Options in Settings > Focus > “DND”. Until now DND didn’t change anything, wallpaper-wise.)

So what I’m wondering, is how do you guys get all-black wallpapers?

Thank you!

Lawrence and I get different results and I don't think either of us is wrong (we've both been round the block a few times), so there may be device or country differences.

When my lock screen goes black late at night I know it has gone to my scheduled DND but the Do Not Disturb written at the bottom also helps.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

So what you need to do is have a different wallpaper for DND than for when DND is off.

Thats the bit that doesn't work for me, it still goes black. Country or device variations??

This New iOS update (16.4.1) won’t let me access my wallpapers from the Lock Screen. I have to open my phone and go into the settings now if I want to change my wallpaper but the only issue with that is I can’t delete my old wallpapers now because they only give you the option to delete your wallpaper when you access it from your Lock Screen…

I'm also having a similar problem. I have a wallpaper of my favourite movie character & my iPhone 11 kept on replacing it with the stock Wallpaper that came with it.

(Edit: I have since found out that it was one of my Settings that was the cause of the problem, though I request that Apple repair this bug, to prevent from happening again)

I do not use different focus settings. My phone is always in DND. This is a bug in 16.4.1(a)

Believe that if you want to, but it is a setting that is incorrect that is causing it.

Believe that if you want, but the only thing that was changed was an iOS update.

FWIW

My DND settings have the greeny blue screen assigned to DND

but when DND is active my lock screen is almost black, Been that way since beta

Same problem as OP. There is some sort of bug in this release. Same problem being reported to Reddit.

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I think I’ll just wait for apple to fix the problem lol.

thegame310 wrote:

I think I’ll just wait for apple to fix the problem lol.

You’re going to have a long wait.

Same here.

However, my device only does this with the “Sleep” Focus. Never with the “Do Not Disturb” Focus. The “Sleep” Focus darkens all wallpapers; I haven’t assigned a wallpaper to any Focus.