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iPhone 12 Pro Max The factory screensavers are terrible
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I use the stock wallpaper (purple night mode road scene). The wallpaper is not really something I stay focused on.
I have always used stock wallpapers. I find them fairly nice. Only semi-exception is that on my iPad I copied over a stock wallpaper from macOS instead
Always used a jet black wallpaper on my Home Screen and a black based image on my Lock Screen. Never used the Apple ones. Just use whatever I like at the time
Jason
Jason
I've been using 24 Hour Wallpaper for a few years now. It's got a nice selection of time lapse style landscapes that change throughout the day.
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I have about 3k pictures give or take on my phone at any given time. plenty of options it's that simple.
It’s not like the Mac with dynamic wallpaper.
On iOS, they’re just animated and move very slowly, that’s all they do unless you use Shorcuts to change the wallpaper based upon time, but it’s a time consuming thing to set up.
Jason
Considering how much storage iPhones contain now days there is little to no reason why not Apple could have every single wallpaper that has been released from iOS 7 till now be stored and available. Now, stock wallpapers have been watered down to nothing more than the dumb images they choose for the packaging of the devices as advertisement. Also, ‘Dynamic’ wallpapers have effectively not changed since their original implementation in iOS 7, and have not had anything new added. And that is important because ‘Live’ wallpapers aren’t even live and you have to tap and hold them to make them play. Who does that? That is really weird if someone were to do that. All the while Android has had true live wallpapers/animations since the very beginning when smartphones first took off. The excuses then that they take up battery life as a reason for their lack of implementation are irrelevant. Even more now then ever being as it is now 2021 i.e. gpu power draw and battery efficiency gains in theory mitigate the disadvantages of a true live wallpaper. Either way regardless Apple.. Please. Get with the times... This is truly starting to be a joke.
Apple is popular, so it shouldn't be difficult to find wallpapers from older OS versions online somewhere. That goes to both iOS and Mac OS.
As for the stock wallpapers these days, yeah, too many of them look like photos, not proper wallpapers for having icons float over