However, the standard approach to changing wallpapers, which involves finding an image and setting it as wallpaper, can be quite tedious for some users and may discourage them from changing wallpapers frequently. Fortunately, thanks to the built-in Shortcuts app on iPhones, it’s much easier to change wallpapers (even live wallpapers), and there are many ways you can choose to do this. In fact, you may have probably already seen many shortcuts that automatically change your iPhone’s background. We aim to one-up this by helping you create a shortcut that can find wallpapers from your favorite wallpaper resource on the internet and apply them at your will. Follow along as we list the instructions to help you set up this shortcut on your iPhone.
How to Create a Shortcut to Change the Wallpaper on Your iPhone
First, make sure your iPhone is running iOS 14.3 or higher and that the Shortcuts app on your iPhone is updated to the latest version. Then, open Shortcuts and follow the instructions below to create a new shortcut: Once you’ve created the shortcut workflow, hit the play icon at the bottom of the screen to run it. You’ll now be prompted to allow the shortcut to connect to Unsplash Source. Hit Allow to proceed. If you added all the actions correctly, you should have a new wallpaper on your iPhone.
How to Change Your iPhone Wallpaper Using Back Tap
Back Tap is another useful iPhone feature released with iOS 14. It’s essentially an accessibility feature that lets you double-tap or triple-tap on the back of your iPhone to trigger a range of actions. Plus, you can also use it to trigger shortcuts, which is what we’ll be doing to run our shortcut whenever we want new wallpaper for our iPhone. Here are the steps to trigger a shortcut using Back Tap: Now, depending on whether you set the shortcut to Double or Triple Tap, perform that gesture on the back of your iPhone, and it should run the shortcut and change your iPhone’s wallpaper.
Change iPhone Wallpaper At a Particular Time of Day
While setting the wallpaper changing shortcut to Back Tap lets you change your iPhone’s wallpaper at will, you can also automate the shortcut to run automatically at a specific time of the day. Follow these steps to do this: Now, your wallpaper-changing shortcut should run based on your time and frequency and, in turn, change your phone’s wallpaper.
Easily Change Your iPhone’s Wallpaper at Will
Using the Shortcuts app with the Back Tap feature gives you the ability to change your iPhone’s wallpaper at your will easily and eliminates the need to go over the entire process manually. Thus, making the wallpaper changing process much more convenient and efficient.
