Guides · Newest first
Wallpaper guides: the release rungs, then the evergreen pair.
Four guides in two kinds. The release-cycle guides cover a specific iOS version or iPhone family — dated on every claim, newest at the top, and kept in the list as they age, because a phone bought in 2025 still needs its numbers in 2027. The evergreen pair covers the two behaviors that outlive any release: 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 · pre-release
iOS 27 Wallpaper: Sizes, What's New, and Make Your OwnWhat is publicly known about iOS 27's wallpaper behavior as of the dated check, exact sizes for the current lineup, and five original September-mood seeds.
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Release rung · current family
iPhone 17 Wallpaper: Exact Sizes, Depth Effect, and Original SeedsAll four models, three native sizes — 1206×2622, 1260×2736, 1320×2868 — plus depth-effect setup a year in and six seeds sized for these phones.
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Evergreen · lock screen
iPhone Depth Effect: How It Works and Why Photos FailThe segmentation decision you cannot watch, the failure modes in order of likelihood, the fix checklist — and how to recognize the photos that will never work.
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Evergreen · home screen
iOS Tinted Icons: Pick a Tint That Actually Works on Your WallpaperHue and saturation without hand-waving: complementary versus analogous tints, the two contrasts that make or break legibility, 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 quietly — and on the release-cycle guides, where the subject is a version of iOS or a family of iPhones, the dated line sits in the readout at the top of the page. Pre-release material is labeled pre-release, sourced from public coverage and the maker's published statements, and phrased as what is known rather than what is coming; nothing in these pages predicts, and nothing in them is a pledge to update on any schedule.
Every screen dimension quoted anywhere in the set comes from the site's single device table, in which each entry was cross-checked against two independent published sources before it shipped — the same table that drives the maker's picker and the size charts, so a guide, a chart, and an export can never disagree about a number. Where a guide shows wallpapers, they are seeds rendered live by the site's own engine: original compositions, reproducible from the integers printed on the cards, never anyone else's artwork.
The limits are stated where they bind. The depth-effect guides say plainly that the phone's own segmentation makes the final call and that no website can run it; the tinting guide says which half of its advice is arithmetic and which half is judgment; and the release-cycle guides separate what a maker has announced from what a beta happens to show this week. When a guide can hand you an instrument instead of an opinion — the checker, the matcher, the maker — it does.