How to set different wallpapers for homescreen and lockscreen? iPad and iPhone.

You don't need to use workaround screenshots to set your Lock and Home Screen Wallpaper. I believe Katana-San was suggesting how this technique might be employed to capture an on-screen image - and use the captured screenshot image as a Wallpaper. Perhaps KS can confirm or elaborate.

Screenshots aside, in absence of information to the contrary, I'll assume that your iPad has been updated to iPadOS 17.5.1. Lets try to understand where you are having difficulty by working thought the process to create a wallpaper pair...

Method 1 (recommended)

This method is the most flexible, offering the full set of tools to manage your Wallpaper screens.

Start at the Lock Screen. At this stage, your iPad should be locked. Unlock the iPad using FaceID, TouchID or Passcode as appropriate - but do not dismiss the Lock Screen. If you reach the Home Screen, you will not be able to access the next step.

Your iPad Lock Screen should now be unlocked; you may briefly see an unlocked-padlock icon at the top of the screen - and/or see a Swipe up to open message at the bottom of Lock Screen - both indicating that the iPad is unlocked. Do not swipe upwards, as this will dismiss the Lock Screen - which we do not want to do.

From the unlocked Lock Screen, simply touch-and-hold the screen with your finger. This will open the Wallpaper selection/editing screen.

From here you can:

a) choose between Lock/Home screen Wallpaper, already created, by swiping to the left or right on the screen; simply tap the chosen Wallpaper to set.

b) add a new Wallpaper pairing by selecting the blue "+" button.

c) modify an existing Wallpaper pairing by selecting the associated Customise button; having tapped Customise, the page will expand to show both the current Lock and Home Screen Wallpaper image; tap the Wallpaper image that you wish to edit or change.

d) delete a Wallpaper pair by swiping the Wallpaper upward - and tap the red Trash icon.

When creating or editing a Wallpaper pairing, you have access to various tools. You can also add Widgets to the Lock Screen.

Method 2

This method is performed from iPad settings - but does not offer the full suite of tools to manage your Wallpaper images:

Settings > Wallpaper

Here you can add or customise wallpaper for Lock and Home screens...

Use the blue "+" button to add a new Wallpaper. Swipe the Wallpaper thumbnail image to the left or right to see your existing Wallpaper pairs; tap the associated Customise button to access the editing tools.

Wrap Up

Having worked through each method, if you continue to have difficulties, please explain where you are getting stuck. Take a screenshot and post it here if necessary - as this may help you to explain the problem that you have.

Take a screenshot on your iPad - Apple Support

Upload a screenshot here using the image button at the bottom of the message window:

Hello~ That’s exactly what I do and all of my Home Screens and Lock Screens are different. I just created several more for both iPhone and iPad to check. I truly must be missing the point…

~Katana-San~

Having spent considerable time putting this together, evidently I am missing something - as I seem to have no trouble using images for either Wallpaper.

The only other potential issue that comes to mind are "stock" Wallpaper images that are included with iOS/iPadOS. These do regularly change with major system updates, older images being replaced by newer images chosen by Apple.

If you are attempting to use a stock-wallpaper image that has been "retired", you're out of luck - unless you can find the image online.

Katana-San wrote:

Hello once more~ That was the conclusion that I started from thus my horrible workaround.😁😁 Lots of great work on your part and I certainly appreciate it!

~Katana-San~

Thanks for your comments. I evidently missed that retirement of a stock wallpaper image from iPadOS was the perhaps a problem - and not the process being an issue.

That said, the revised Wallpaper management features of iPadOS 17.x will continue to catch-out many... both those that are new and not so new to the Apple ecosystem 🙂

Hello~ Don’t be infuriated or frustrated. Press down on screen and choose Customize…then tap on Homescreen…now do you see the Photo icon at the bottom?? Tap that and I choose All… then picture of my choice. Pinch to Crop and or change by tapping on dots to Swipe between styles and click Done when you or pleased or Cancel. Click on below…

Change your iPhone wallpaper - Apple Support

Post back if necessary and take care.

~Katana-San~

Apple has not removed the ability to set different Lock and Home Screen wallpaper. While the method of managing Wallpaper has changed in recent versions of iPadOS, this feature is still available.

iPad Wallpaper can be set and changed from the iPad lock screen and from iPad settings:

Change the wallpaper on iPad - Apple Support

Create a custom iPad Lock Screen - Apple Support

Hello~ Example…on my iPad (note I edited out date and time)

~Katana-San~

First set your Lock Screen. Then take a screenshot of the wallpaper you want on the Home Screen. After that go to edit and then in Home Screen select picture. ( The ss of wall paper) by going in photo option.

Hello~ Not a simple way to do that but what you can do is find the wallpaper you want online say the unity wallpaper and then add it to your photos …like here. Then you can do this…

Not the conventional way to do things but if you can find the wallpaper and add it to your photos you can have it for your Home Screen. Does that help you? In order to show you this I also edited out date and time on Astronomy Lock Screen. My way is a work around way. The key is finding what you want and adding it to photos. It’s not the easiest way but you can do it. Which wallpaper do you want specifically?

~Katana-San~

I found it online. Thank you. I’ve been really liking dark/black wallpapers on my iPad. It’s a nice contrast

Hello~ You are welcome and enjoy. I also enjoy the contrast and being able to express myself in this area.

~Katana-San~

Yes, I mean by NOT using a screenshot and doing it using the stock wallpapers. Good workaround though.

-CPistol

Hello~ Thank you and take care.

~Katana-San~

Nick Syrett wrote:

Thank you, but you misunderstood the issue. I don’t want to photo on my home screen. I only want photo on my lock screen. I want a wallpaper on my home screen.

To the best of my knowledge, you can no longer choose different things for the Home Screen and Lock Screen. I have one where they are different but that's because it existed before the change.