Restore lock screen theme

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Restore lock screen theme

Someone who shall not be named, was playing around with my iPhone (running iOS 16), and deleted my Wallpaper schemes; including the default Apple. I am backing up my iPhone to the iCloud.

How would I restore the themes? I was attempting to restore, just the settings, from the backup from the iPhone. Since I have not performed a restore in quite some years, 1. I can't seem to find how to do that; 2. will the themes be restored if I restore just the settings?

As I recall from a few years ago, I was able to start the restore process, and select full restore or just the settings, contacts, calendar, notes, etc.

Thanks for helping.

iPhone 12 Pro

Posted on May 11, 2023 9:10 AM

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Axel Foley

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May 11, 2023 9:16 AM in response to ansrguy

You cannot restore just the settings. You will have to restore the entire iPhone from a backup. You will need to find a backup file that you may have created when you had the background themes working on your iPhone.

You have stated that you are backing up the iPhone on iCloud at present and that backup will not have the background themes because the themes are not present on your iPhone. This current backup will not restore the themes. You will need an older backup that you may have created on a computer at this point.

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Axel Foley

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May 11, 2023 1:43 PM in response to ansrguy

That is not correct. Your iPhone is backed up to iCloud and that includes data and your settings. The thing is that you just cannot pick and choose what to restore. You have to restore the entire backup file to the iPhone which includes the settings and all of the data that was backed up at the time.

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ansrguy Author

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May 11, 2023 9:29 AM in response to Axel Foley

Thanks. Just for clarification, iCloud now only backs up the data and not the settings for an iPhone/iPad. Is that correct?

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