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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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Posted on Sep 27, 2023 3:11 AM

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!!

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Nov 27, 2023 9:30 PM in response to Mlewis321

Same issue and also with my kids, which is especially funny for me because two of my kids are identical twins and the app has a lot of trouble distinguishing them. I ended up telling photos that they are the same person, which seems to have made them disappear entirely from my wallpaper options.


But I’m guessing most people are talking about this for their kids because it’s the most obvious and fulfilling used case. It was actually working for me for a couple months, though it seemed to not show all of the kids evenly, but I can’t be sure if that’s just because some get more photos taken of them than others. 🤣🤣


Anyway, I am merely awaiting a fix for this and will have to go back to a boring old wallpaper until then.

Nov 28, 2023 1:10 PM in response to NMWSeattle

After several years and no real fix by Apple, with some limited fixes posted here -- does anyone know if Apple truly gets this information and ever replies with an update on fixes to bugs? it is such a great feature and doubt it works for the Apple programmers themselves so why won't they provide fix? I can only see some of my "people" and even then it only cycles through about the same 8 photos. So frustrating.

Jan 25, 2024 1:00 PM in response to mccowanae

Same. I did finally get my wife to show up but if I selected only her, there were no photos of her in the shuffle preview. Then after a couple of days, only my 2 kids were showing up again. There's something about this that just doesn't work. Maybe it's the photos that are available? Maybe there are characteristics about the photo such as how the person in the photo is framed in the photo that make it a candidate for showing up as one of the dynamic photos. You would think Apple would publish a document on the attributes of a photo it will use for the dynamic wallpaper, but I haven't seen one.

iPhone Wallpaper Shuffle limits available people selection

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