Ian Leckie
Level 1 (125 points)
Mac OS X

Q: Missing stock wallpapers in iOS 10?

Hallo! I´m running iOS 10.0.2 on an iPhone SE (64GB) here in Germany and wanted to change the home screen wallpaper. I bought my SE in May with iOS 9, and seem to remember having a lot more standard wallpapers. To clarify, I have the following "dynamic" wallpapers in General Settings

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and these "still" wallpapers

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I seem to remember having a lot more "still" wallpapers, like for example these light ones:

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So, before I go to the bother of re-setting my SE to factory settings and restoring everything from an iTunes backup am I imagining things, or is the number and choice of wallpapers correct and standard for an SE running iOS 10? And if not, how on earth did the wallpapers disappear? I don´t, by the way, jail-break my phone!! This isn´t very important, I know, and otherwise everything works just fine! But I´m very curious!! Thanks so much for any help offered! Ian

Posted on Oct 13, 2016 12:43 AM

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  • by Briansyddall,

    Briansyddall Briansyddall Oct 13, 2016 12:50 AM in response to Ian Leckie
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    Oct 13, 2016 12:50 AM in response to Ian Leckie

    Hi

    The wallpaper you have it the same as my iPhone 5S & my iPhone 6s

    Running ios 10

    Cheers

    Brian

  • by Ian Leckie,

    Ian Leckie Ian Leckie Oct 13, 2016 2:52 AM in response to Briansyddall
    Level 1 (125 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 13, 2016 2:52 AM in response to Briansyddall

    Hi Brian! Thanks for replying so fast. I thought this might be the case. I wonder why Apple does this? Anyway, you´ve saved me a lot of useless fiddling about!! It´s easy enough to import wallpaper if I really must. Cheers!

  • by Maryann M.,

    Maryann M. Maryann M. Oct 21, 2016 4:51 PM in response to Ian Leckie
    Level 1 (109 points)
    Oct 21, 2016 4:51 PM in response to Ian Leckie

    I think there is a bug here.   I bought my SE in the spring and just today upgraded to 10.0.02.  After upgrading the OS, I selected one of the flowers wallpaper.   They were ALL there when I first switched on after upgrading.   However, I changed my mind and wanted to try another image and when I returned to the Wallpapers menu, all the wallpaper options had disappeared but the selections you are showing.  Hadn't powered down or done anything else in the interim...

  • by Ian Leckie,

    Ian Leckie Ian Leckie Oct 21, 2016 10:26 PM in response to Maryann M.
    Level 1 (125 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 21, 2016 10:26 PM in response to Maryann M.

    Exactly my experience...I could swear I had more wallpapers before updating to 10.0.2! It´s either a bug or another example of Apple´s sometimes strange and arbitrary behaviour in giving you features and then, for no apparent reason, taking them away again!! I found and installed iOS 9/10 wallpapers by Googling...can´t remember where, but they´re easy to find! Thanks for replying, Ian.