What happened to the nature/animals/flowers/... wallpapers?

[CyberGene]

So, I convinced my wife to upgrade to iOS 16 (she's usually very rigid about major updates), so that we can benefit from the improved iMessage supporting edits. Well, she immediately noticed the changed lock-screen and decided to set some "beautiful picture wallpaper" and guess what: there are none! Why did Apple remove them? They added some emoji based ones which is so stupid and ugly, it's beyond me why one would use such a wallpaper 🤮 It reminds me Windows 3.11. There's only one (!) wallpaper with a clownfish and that's about nice stock photo wallpapers. Everything else is some color gradient based ones which frankly is pretty dull decision. Of course, she started seeking some nature photos on the Internet to use as wallpapers and set one but I still believe in the idea of having stock selected wallpapers that are optimized for the actual screen dimensions and resolution. Apple even used to make them so that the notch goes into a dark/black portion of the wallpaper and is not noticeable. They even used to provide separate light and dark versions of each of these. I absolutely don't understand if it took them a year to come up with nothing but removal of stock wallpapers and replacing them with this silliness and a few widgets visible on the screen, as though it's so difficult to show these widgets... Apple, what's going on?!

 

[iLoveDeveloping]

Yep I know, first thing I noticed too! Where are all my wallpapers gone. Can only use my own images now. Sucks, as I always use the apple ones.

 

[coso]

And no light dark too

 

[Alchemist]

Concur. Very odd to add Lock Screen wallpaper options and then to remove the nice graphical wallpapers Apple used to offer that worked so well under a field of icons. Now the options are colours (how terribly Mac OS 9) or my own images, which rarely work as the background for busy icon screens.