No matter how beautiful a wallpaper may look, it tends to lose charm after a while. And when that happens, your eyes feel like facing the same dull home/lock screen time and time again out of sheer boredom. Though iOS offers a straightforward way to set a wallpaper, the lack of an option to change iPhone or iPad wallpaper automatically has never failed to puzzle me. Literally. Is there any workaround to make it happen? Turns out, you can set your favorite wallpapers to change automatically thanks to a tedious yet pretty reliable hack!
So, how does this hack work, and more importantly, what are the requirements for it? Well, it requires you to create a photo album with all the images that you want to use as the wallpaper of your device. After that, you need to permit the shortcut called “Wallpaper” to access the album and cycle through all the images. Then, add the shortcut to the home screen.
- A Couple of Things to Do Before Getting Started
- Add the Wallpaper Shortcut to Your Shortcuts Library
- Allow the Wallpaper Shortcut to Use Your Photos Album
- Add the shortcut to the Home screen
- Change iPhone/iPad Wallpaper with Just a Tap
A Couple of Things to Do Before Getting Started
- Make Sure to Allow Untrusted Shortcuts: The very first thing you need to do is to enable the Shortcuts app to accept untrusted shortcut. As we are going to use a shortcut from a relatively unknown source, it’s a must. Open the Settings app on your device > Shorcuts > Allow Untrusted Shortcuts.
Add the Wallpaper Shortcut to Your Shortcuts Library
Next up, you need to add the “Wallpaper” Shortcut to the Shortcuts app. As it’s available from an untrusted source, you have to take a little different route to add it to the library.
It’s time to allow the “Wallpaper” shortcut to use the Photos Album. With permission to the album, the shortcut will automatically cycle through the selected images every time you tap on it.
- Now, tap on “My Shortcuts” tab at the bottom.
Once you have allowed the Wallpaper shortcut to access your photo album, add it to the home screen. It’s done to not only access it with ease but also change the iPhone or iPad wallpaper with just a quick tap.
- Next, touch and hold the Wallpaper shortcut and then select “Share” in the menu.
Going forward, all you need to do to change the wallpaper on your iPhone or iPad is just ap on the wallpaper shortcut icon. The script will rotate the wallpaper using the same album you have created. If you want the home screen of your iPhone to always look pleasing to the eyes, keep adding all the nice-looking wallpapers to the album.
That’s all there is to it! Now that you have got a good hang of this hack, get the most out of it to deck up your home/lock screen with attractive wallpapers and switch them with ease. As I said above, the script requires some workaround. However, once you have set up the shortcut perfectly, it works as expected.
