(Check Tech AI’s full post for setting up specific times.)Īlso, if you want to stop seeing notifications when your wallpaper refreshes, head to Settings > Screen Time > See All Activity, then scroll down to the Notifications section. This works especially well with the Dynamic Wallpapers Shortcut, which offers different scenes for sunrise, morning, sunset, and nighttime. If you want your wallpaper to change more than once per day, just repeat the steps above to create additional scheduling rules.
To install a Shortcut, just tap any of the links below while using your iPhone, scroll to the bottom of the Shortcut description, then select “Allow Untrusted Shortcut.” You can then choose whether the Shortcut will set your home screen, lock screen, or both.
Now comes the fun part: By adding various Shortcuts to your phone, you can choose which wallpapers to use.
Head to Settings > General > Software Update and make sure you’re running iOS 14.3, or select “Download and Install” if you aren’t.But first, you’ll need to prepare your iPhone with a couple of setup steps: We’ll discuss some specific Shortcuts to try and how to automate them below. By running these Shortcuts on a schedule, your backgrounds can update on their own. Starting with iOS 14.3, Shortcuts includes the ability to set a wallpaper, on the home screen, the lock screen, or both. The key to automatically changing your iPhone wallpaper is Apple’s Shortcuts app, which can trigger all kinds of custom actions and events on your phone. To exit the screen saver, just press the Escape key, or click the small Exit button at the bottom right of the screen.Setting up Shortcuts to auto-refresh your wallpaper This screen saver is a good way to view a random selection of your albums and choose one to play. Note that I’ve placed my cursor over an album near the center of the image there’s a play button, and if you click this, you can start playing that album. For this screen saver isn’t static the artwork changes, one at a time, every couple of seconds. If you click Screen Saver Options, you can choose how many rows display, and the delay before one of the graphics changes. To use this, select it in the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane. This displays your album artwork at random. This can be very nice, but if you have a big music collection, you can also use the iTunes Artwork screen saver. If you use a screen saver on your Mac, you may have chosen to have some photos display, in one of the many options available from OS X’s Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane.