Guides · Newest first
Wallpaper guides: the release rungs, then the evergreen pair.
There are four guides. The two release guides each cover one iOS version or iPhone family, with the newest at the top. Older release guides stay in the list, because a phone bought in 2025 still needs its numbers in 2027. The two evergreen guides cover behavior that carries across releases: how the lock-screen depth effect decides, and how to pick an icon tint that stays readable on a real wallpaper.
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Release rung · newest
iOS 27 Wallpaper: Sizes, What's New, and Make Your OwnWhat iOS 27 changed for wallpapers, checked 2026-09-23, with exact sizes for the iPhone 17 and 18 Pro models and five original September-mood seeds.
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Release rung · September 2025
iPhone 17 Wallpaper: Exact Sizes, Depth Effect, and Original SeedsAll four models and their three native sizes (1206×2622, 1260×2736 and 1320×2868), depth-effect setup a year after launch, and six seeds sized for these phones.
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Evergreen · lock screen
iPhone Depth Effect: How It Works and Why Photos FailHow the phone's subject segmentation decides, the failure modes in rough order of likelihood, the fix checklist, and how to spot the photos that never segment.
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Evergreen · home screen
iOS Tinted Icons: Pick a Tint That Actually Works on Your WallpaperWhat hue and saturation do, complementary and analogous tints, the two contrasts that decide whether icons stay readable, and the extract-and-match workflow.
How these guides are written
Every factual claim about someone else's software carries the date it was checked, because that kind of fact goes stale. On the release guides, the check date also sits in the readout at the top of the page. Anything reported only from a pre-release beta is labeled as a beta report, and pre-release material comes from public coverage and the maker's published statements. The guides make no predictions and are not updated on a fixed schedule.
Every screen size quoted in the guides comes from the site's single device table, which also drives the maker's picker and the size charts, so a guide, a chart and an export give the same number for the same phone. Each entry in the table was cross-checked against two independent published sources before it shipped. Where a guide shows wallpapers, they are original compositions rendered live by the site's own engine, and each card prints the seed, palette and device you need to make it again. None of them is anyone else's artwork.
Each guide states its limits where they apply. The depth-effect guides say that the phone's own segmentation makes the final call and that only the phone runs it, and the tinting guide says which half of its advice is arithmetic and which half is judgment. Where a tool can measure or make what a guide describes, the guide links to it: the checker, the matcher or the maker.