The background and lockscreen are great places to start if you want to make your phone your own.
Live backgrounds, which stay still until you touch them, may be a more interesting way to switch things up. The way you do it will depend on the gadget you have and where the picture came from, though.
How to make a moving picture.
Pick out a live picture and set it as your phone’s background to make a live wallpaper. The live picture will move when you hold your finger down on the lock screen.
On the Apple iPhone Live Wallpaper.
The live wallpaper option has been taken away if you’ve updated your iPhone to iOS 16. Here are the steps you need to take if you haven’t already:
- Open the Settings app on your phone.
- Pick a background.
- Click on Pick a New Background.
- Pick a live picture to use. You can do this in two different ways:
- It’s at the top of the screen. Tap Live, and then pick one of the live backgrounds that’s there.
- Tap the book of Live Photos further down, and then pick out a live picture to use as your background.
- Fifth, press Set. Next, pick Set Lock Screen, Set Home Screen, or Set Both for your new background.
Live wallpaer setup on Android.
To set up a live wallpaper on an Android, you’ll need a third-party app. With the Video to Wallpaper app, here’s how to do it:
- Start up the Video to Wallpaper app.
- In the bottom right part of the screen, tap the plus sign (+).
- When a window pops up, press Choose. Next, pick the video you want to watch, and press OK.
- Press “Apply” and then “OK” to move on.
- Choose Video as your background.
- At the bottom of the screen, tap Set Wallpaper.
- Touch either the Home screen or the Home screen and lock screen to set the live wallpaper.
How to get live wallpaper App for Apple iPhone or Android.
Go to the App Store or Google Play Store on your iPhone or Android to get a live desktop App named Zedge. Look for “Live Wallpaper” and then read reviews to find a good app. After you download and Install the app, it will tell you how to set a live wallpaper on your device.
Zedge is a free app that lets you design your phone with a wide range of downloadable wallpaper, themes, live wallpaper, and other features.
Live Wallpapers from Zedge for Android.
You can get Zedge for Android from Google Play and use it to customize your Android phone with wallpaper, live wallpaper, music, games, icons, apps, and keyboards.
When you open the Zedge app after downloading it, you’ll see the choices above.
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Open the Zedge app.
Go to the menu and choose Live Wallpaper. Two tabs are close to the top. They say “Discover” and “Featured.” The Featured tab has carefully chosen media, and the Discover tab lets you look through things by color or topic.
Press “Discover” and pick a group, like “Sayings.” Then you can scroll through that group of choices and open or see a sample of any of them.
To go back to the last screen, press the “X” in the top left corner.
To make something your background, tap the white circle in the middle of the bottom of the screen that has a download icon in it.
Click on Set Background. It will be downloaded immediately by Zedge and set as your new Live wallpaper.
You might like the picture, but you might not want to make it your Live wallpaper just yet. To save it as a favorite, tap the heart sign. To download it, tap the three dots in the top right corner.
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When you choose a Live wallpaper, Zedge will put it in a folder called Wallpaper in your Gallery or Photos.
Live Wallpapers from Zedge for Apple iPhone.
There are Live wallpapers on Zedge for iPhone users. There is no longer an iOS app for Zedge ringtones. This is how you can get Zedge Live wallpapers on your iPhone.
Start up the Zedge app. On the home screen, you can see highlighted pictures and sneak peeks of paid images. You can see the home icon, the paid diamond icon, and the search icon at the bottom of the screen.
If you tap on the search icon, you can sort the results by color, category, or most-searched terms. To see some samples, go to the sections page and tap on Pets & Animals.
Pick one you like, then tap it to see a bigger version.
In the bottom middle of the screen, tap on the white circle with the down arrow in it. The picture will be downloaded immediately and put in an album in your Photos called Zedge.
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Leave the app and go to Settings > Wallpaper > Choose a New Wallpaper to set the saved picture as your background.
Tap Zedge at the bottom of the music list. After downloading a background, tap on it and then tap on Still or Perspective > Set.
You’ll be asked if you want to Set the Lock Screen, the Home Screen, or both when you press Set. Pick the one you want, then press the home button to leave.