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A delightful wallpaper adorning the lockscreen of your iPhone can make your day and inspire you, but finding one that matches your changing mood is a time-consuming chore. Switch your wallpaper on a whim and jazz up your iPhone with some gorgeous images for a fresh look.

Shuffle Your iPhone Wallpapers From the Photos App

This is by far the easiest way to customize your iPhone or iPad’s Lock Screen with your favorite photos in the background and rotate them by tap, lock, hour, or day. You already keep your best shots in the Photos app, so it's simple to rotate your wallpaper from a set of specific images or tagged people, pets, locations, etc.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Go to Settings > Wallpaper, hit “Add New Wallpaper,” and choose “Photo Shuffle” from the top row of options. You can also get to this feature when building a new lockscreen by touching and holding the lockscreen by choosing “Photo Shuffle” when creating your new look.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

You can now choose the “Select Photos Manually” option at the bottom, enabling you to cherry-pick up to 50 images from the Photos app to include in your rotation.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

If you're the type who sorts your favorite photographs into albums, check the “Album” option which allows you to source wallpapers from an album you’ve created in the Photos app.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

If you can't be bothered to manage wallpapers, Apple has a solution. Choose “People,” “Pets,” “Nature,” or “Cities” (multiple items can be selected) and hit “Use Featured Photos” to only use featured people, pets, nature shots, and cityscapes as your wallpapers.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

With the “People” option selected, touch the blue “1 Person” or “People” text next to it to add or remove contacts from the shuffle.

Lastly, decide how your iPhone will shuffle the images as you use it throughout the day by choosing “Shuffle Frequency” and selecting “On Tap,” “On Lock,” “Hourly,” or “Daily.”

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Swapping the wallpaper whenever I touch the lockscreen or lock my iPhone is an excellent way to quickly refresh your wallpaper. Personally, I prefer to wake up to a different lockscreen every morning, so I use the Daily option.

Use Wallpapers From NASA, Google, Bing, Unsplash, and More

Your oiwn photographs will only get you so far, no matter how engaging and emotive. Wouldn’t it be great if the wallpaper could automatically change using beautiful space imagery and snaps taken by expert photographers? With Apple’s Shortcuts app, you can. No longer will you have an excuse for changing your wallpaper, like... once every three years.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

We’ve included Shortcuts scripts created by intrepid users that rotate iPhone wallpapers from NASA, Google Earth, Bing, Chromecast, and Unsplash. As a bonus, we’ve included a solution that sources wallpapers from a folder locally stored on your iPhone or iPad.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Follow the provided link to import each script into the Shortcuts app. Then go to Shortcuts > All Shortcuts and touch the tile to run it. You’ll need to approve some permission prompts the first time you run the script.

If the script returns an error saying the wallpaper couldn’t be applied, point it to a different lockscreen. Hit the ellipsis "..." in the script’s top-right corner, find the line containing the “Set Wallpaper” action, and click the “Wallpaper” part. Now select a different lockscreen and hit “Done” to get back, then touch “Done” again to save the changes.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Wake up to NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

Marvel at the cosmos with a different image of the universe from NASA. A script from Reddit user “Tiduszk” sets the wallpaper to NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, creating moments of profound inspiration every time you glance at your phone.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

I use a Personal Automation to schedule the script at sunrise because I like to wake up to a new “space photo of the day.” Select the “Automation” tab, hit “+” in the top-right corner, choose “Time of Day,” and select “Sunrise.” Next, set the frequency under “Repeat” to “Daily,” and turn on “Run Immediately.” As the last step, touch “Next” and pick the NASA script from the list.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Your automation is saved under Automation> Personal and will run on schedule.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Download this script from iCloud.

How About a Different Bing Wallpaper Every Day?

I don’t search with Bing, I just come for the featured image. Bing wallpapers offer a great variety of nature shots, portraits, cityscapes, and more. Reddit user “avidnumberer” came up with a solution that sets the newest Bing image of the day as your wallpaper.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Explore the world one photo at a time with Bing wallpapers. Feel free to automate this script to run daily by following the instructions in the previous section.

Download this script from iCloud.

Get Wallpaper Images Shot by Expert Photographers via Unsplash

Jazz up your iPhone’s background with eye-candy images shot by expert photographers the world over. There’s no better place for that than Unsplash, the top repository of copyright-free pictures spanning a wide range of themes. There’s truly something for everyone on this site, so kudos to Reddit user “komnaspap” who created a script which sets your Lock and Home Screen backgrounds to different images from the site’s Featured section.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

You can tag specific image themes to use. Touch the ellipsis "..." in the top-right corner of the tile to edit the script, then hit the first line to update the Unsplash URL. Append tags such as “nature” or “gradient” (combine multiple ones with the “+” operator), then hit “Done” to save the changes.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Use portraiture photography of your loved ones for the Lock Screen with “portrait+woman+bokeh” or some such. Colorful gradients are best for the Home Screen, so use tags like “abstract+colorful” or “OLED+HDR+gradient.” For surprises, use the “random” tag.

Download the script from iCloud.

Google Earth Aerials on Your iPhone’s Lock and Home Screens

This script was created by a deleted Reddit account but had an error, so we’ve updated it. It sets your wallpaper to a random satellite shot from the Google Earth website.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

With more than 2500 images captured by geostationary satellites, I suggest boosting the frequency of wallpaper changes by running the script whenever you open a frequently-used app like Instagram. Follow the steps at the start of the NASA section to create a new automation, but select the “App” option from the Personal Automation screen.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Download this script from iCloud.

Shared on RoutineHub, this script will set your Lock and Home Screen backdrop to the current Chromecast image. You don’t need to own Google’s casting device as Chromecast’s Featured Photos section showcases a different user photograph every few seconds.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Download the script from iCloud.

Use Your Favorite Wallpapers From the Files App

Have you painstakingly built a personal library of high-quality wallpapers over the years using sources such as Reddit’s Wallpaper forum and the Wallpaper section of Unsplash? I never mix wallpapers with my photographs in the Photos app. If that’s how you roll, too, you’ll be thankful for this easy solution from Reddit user “Dinutery.”

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

His script finds JPG or PNG files in the device’s local Downloads folder, but you can use the Files app to move your favorite wallpaper images to this folder. Alternatively, update the script’s “Get contents of folder” action by pointing it to a custom path.

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Download this script from iCloud.

Let your imagination run wild! Automate wallpaper changes with the “Arrive” and “Leave” location triggers. Personal automation supports other conditions, like when CarPlay is used, your iPhone connects to AirPods, Apple Music listening history is temporarily disabled, etc.

Fresh New Walls With a Touch of a Home Screen Icon

You can give each script its own Home Screen icon, so you can run it manually without opening the Shortcuts app first. Hit “…” in the top-right corner of the desired script, touch the information "i" button at the bottom, and choose “Add to Home Screen.” On the next screen, select an existing icon or choose an image from the Photos or Files app, name the icon, and hit “Done.”

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Even Better, Switch Your Wallpaper by Tapping the Back of Your iPhone

For our final trick, configure the lesser-known Back Tap feature to automatically run automation like a wallpaper script when you tap the iPhone’s back. Venture into Settings > Accessibility > Touch, scroll down, and choose “Back Tap,” then hit either “Double Tap” or “Triple Tap” and select your favorite wallpaper script underneath “Shortcuts.”

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

Keep Your iPhone Looking Fresh by Cycling Your Wallpaper Automatically

This is a game-changer. I’ve set double tap to call my Unsplash wallpaper script. Whenever I feel bored, all it takes is a quick double tap of the back of my iPhone to drastically change the Lock and Home screen backgrounds without tedious work.


These easy tricks will boost your wallpaper game significantly. You can go from a boring Lock Screen and factory Home Screen backgrounds to a brand new look in seconds.

Do yourself a favor and reduce the cognitive load associated with freshening up your Lock and Home Screens by scheduling automatic wallpaper changes with Personal Automation.

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