iPhone Wallpaper Shuffle limits available people selection

I have tried multiple times to setup a wallpaper option that shuffles photos between my 2 children, but only 1 child is available when I go to select people. Teh only options are one child, my spouse and 3 other (seemingly random) people. Why aren't the same people available in Photos available in the Wallpaper shuffle setup? Anyone have a solution to this problem?

iPhone 13 mini

Posted on Aug 17, 2023 4:36 PM

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Please check your People Album to see the faces that are tagged and named. The pic below is self-explanatory



Posted on Aug 18, 2023 5:42 AM

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Sep 4, 2023 7:53 AM in response to NMWSeattle

I’m having the exact same issue. Both my children are tagged and identified in my photo album, I can easily create albums with their photo ID but of the five thumbnail choices of people from the “Photo Shuffle” option for Lock Screen, I have two thumbnails of one kid, one for my husband and two random friends of my kids. I can’t select myself either. Why doesn’t this align with the “people” feature in Photo app? Also same thing when I deselect everyone. Still shows up as one person selected (but photo is just a black screen). This app needs to be fixed. No solution has been provided.

Sep 9, 2023 8:25 AM in response to Mjfphelan

I’m having the same issue. This was working properly until sometime around July-August of this year. My daughter is identified in photos but not available to select in the Lock Screen shuffle section. She’s the only person I really want to show up on the Lock Screen shuffle so hopefully Apple comes out with a fix soon.

Sep 27, 2023 3:11 AM in response to RenCinn

It's almost October coupled with 1 or 2 system updates and this is still a problem! I have hundreds of photos of both my daughters, yet neither are available for selection in photo shuffle. There are people available for selection who are just in 3 or 4 group photos (no individual photos)... so annoying! Please fix this Apple!!

Oct 1, 2023 8:57 AM in response to NMWSeattle

This issue has been so frustrating but I've finally found a fix (at least that worked for my phone)! Going in to my photo albums, I clicked the "People & Places" album and selected all the people I did not want included in the photo shuffle. Then I removed them from the "People" album. When I went back to wallpapers to set up the new Photo Shuffle, the only people shown were those that were left in my "People" album. Hopefully there's a legit fix soon but this works for now!

Oct 5, 2023 9:44 AM in response to NMWSeattle

I am having this same issue. I have been meticulous in setting up people in my photos app. When I updated to iOS 17, most of the people were listed as options for the lock screen photo shuffle. I then spent some time in Photos, connecting the people with contacts. Now, I don't even have the option to select people on my lock screen.


I did just have an insight though- How many people having this issue are using the Shared Library feature? When I view "People & Pets" in Photos on my Mac, everyone is there if I have "Both Libraries" selected, but not "Personal Library" or "Shared Library". Photos even gives a note to say that "Both Libraries" must be selected.


I'm guessing the Photo Shuffle feature is not aware of Shared Libraries and that, originally, some of my people were still linked to my personal library. When I updated and connected People with contacts, they became part of "Both Libraries" and no longer visible to Photo Shuffle.

iPhone Wallpaper Shuffle limits available people selection

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