Change the current wallpaper
Pick a photo or file, then set it as your Lock Screen, Home Screen, or both.
Set my wallpaper
Asks you to pick a photo and sets it to your Lock Screen and Home Screen background.
Shortcut Information
Use this method to store images in an album called “Wallpapers,” then pull from it each time you run the shortcut and set that as the background on both your Lock Screen and Home Screen.
“Show Preview” is toggled on so you can adjust the exact spacing and perspective shift effect, but you can toggle that off to have the wallpaper set immediately.
“Show Preview” is toggled on so you can adjust the exact spacing and perspective shift effect, but you can toggle that off to have the wallpaper set immediately.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Set%20my%20wallpaper
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Set%20my%20wallpaper
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Set my wallpaper”
end tell
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Randomize wallpaper
Pulls random photos from your Home Screen and Lock Screen albums, then sets them as your wallpaper accordingly.
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.
Encode wallpaper
Prompts you to choose an image from Photos or Files, then encodes the result with base64 into a large text string.
Set my Focus Wallpaper
Turns the appearance dark, turns on Do Not Disturb, and sets an embedded wallpaper.
Create wallpaper albums
Generates albums for saving wallpapers for every device type Apple offers.
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