Set my wallpaper
Asks you to pick a photo and sets it to your Lock Screen and Home Screen background.
Set my default wallpaper
Takes a base64-encoded image of your favorite background and decodes it before passing it into Set Wallpaper for your Home Screen.
Matthew's Score
5/5
Total Actions
4
Shortcut Information
Use this to store your favorite wallpapers permanently and restore them if you ever change your background. Works well with Encode Image to turn your photo into base64 text.
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Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Set%20my%20default%20wallpaper
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Set%20my%20default%20wallpaper
AppleScript
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Set my default wallpaper”
end tell
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Randomize wallpaper
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Encode wallpaper
Prompts you to choose an image from Photos or Files, then encodes the result with base64 into a large text string.
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