How to fix iOS 18 Dynamic Wallpaper Issue?

Neither my Lock Screen nor my Home Screen change colour using the dynamic wallpaper in iOS 18 on my iPhone 15. Pro plus and iPads. I have them all set to Dynamic. When I customize, the colours move but once I return to lock and Home Screen, nothing moves!

Disabling the home screen blur fixed mine (at least for now). Cheers!

Same here. I have both Lock Screen & Home Screen set to dynamic ios 18 wallpaper. When I swipe up to unlock, I get the lovely transition to blur the wallpaper but the Home Screen wallpaper doesn’t match the Lock Screen so there’s a horrible ‘pop’ when it switches colours.

I just upgraded my iPhone 13 Pro to 16 Pro and the same issue is on both.

I have the same set up on my iPad with ipadOS 18 but it works fine there.

This must be a bug. Hopefully already fixed for the next update. It’s a minor gripe but still…

Same issue on 18.2

Yep same here.

my 15 pro max changes the wallpaper throughout the day both lock screen and home screen. but when home screen is set to blur it doesn't. gets stuck at about 10 a.m. (the light coral colored one) 😶‍🌫️😶

As of today, I think I have found a way to “solve” the bug. It is indeed a problem where in my case, even without using dynamic lock, just having an image from a wallpaper I created on a previous iOS to 18, got dimmed/darkened and it was barely visible. Instead of trying to reassign a previous image and selecting an already created wallpaper these are the steps that have helped me to “fix” or skip the bug:

• Delete the Focus Profile which has X wallpaper assigned. There is no current way to delete a wallpaper.
• Start from scratch. Create a new focus profile and create a brand new wallpaper. Follow all the steps to create a new wallpaper.
• Once done, you should see the lock image or dynamic lock working.

note: It doesn’t matter if blur is active for Home Screen and after testing multiple times, it seems to work seamlessly with a brand new created focus profile and wallpaper.

As a developer (not for Apple) I think this may be a versioning issue of wallpapers and focus profiles created before iOS 18.

If this worked for you, vote up so others can “fix” the problem while we wait for a real bug fix.

Same thing happening. I have set the dynamic wallpaper so it should change the color but it gets stuck on purple color once i lock the screen and stays in purple color.

My wallpaper keeps changing and I can’t find the place where I am to enable scrabble mode, which is off, I never turn it on. Also, I can’t turn off my “DO NOT DISTURB”. There is no toggle on the page! Where I do find it it is blurred out so that I can’t enable it.

Ios 18 has no place for live wallpapers which is a real let down as many of us loved being able to have live wallpapers. Also don’t be fooled by people telling to buy certain apps that will allow live wallpapers. For now they are GONE ! Hopefully Apple will listen to the complaints and bring them back as they were a great app that was fun to toy with.

Same issue. Home screen not changing