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

Restarting power resets this to selected settings and then it goes back to black shortly thereafter. How do we fix this obvious Bug?


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Posted on May 4, 2023 1:34 PM

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Posted on May 8, 2023 8:21 AM

I spent some time experimenting. There is an interaction between Do Not Disturb and wallpaper. Specifically, you can have a different wallpaper when DND is on. But it works both ways. If you change the wallpaper to the one that is assigned to DND it will turn DND on, and if you turn on DND it will switch to that wallpaper. So what you need to do is have a different wallpaper for DND than for when DND is off. Further, if you don’t have a wallpaper assigned to DND it will revert to a black screen.


What’s interesting is that, thinking back, it has always worked this way in iOS 16; I puzzled over it months ago. I don’t know why it has suddenly become obvious.

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

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