The iPhone, for better or worse, is one of the devices we use most in our daily lives. And what is the first thing you see there? Your wallpaper. For this reason, and although Apple offers us new backgrounds with each version of iOS, the vast majority seek to personalize this background.
We will therefore name a series of sites where you can download wallpapers for iPhone as well as some tips so that this doesn’t end up harming the iOS 17 user experience.
Which iPhone wallpapers should fit well
Technically, any image you can save to your camera roll will serve as your background. But of course, we’re not going to put anything of poor quality on a screen with the quality that an iPhone gives us, right? To make your iPhone wallpapers look perfect, you need to consider the following:
- The resolution must be high. An iPhone 15 Pro Max has a screen of 2532 x 1170 px, so I would choose at least this definition taking into account that we can move and enlarge the image to adjust it to our liking.
- Try not to make the image too cluttered. iPhone wallpapers look best if they are simple and simple images. You only have to look at Apple’s official track record to understand this, and there are those who are satisfied with even a firm gradient. A busy image can make it difficult to read the time and lock screen widgets.
- If you want to add a centerpiece touch to the background, look for one that matches the color of the iPhone or case you are wearing. Aesthetically, you’ll notice a lot: the header image for this article shows my own iPhone with a background whose colors are part of the olive green case.
- If you are not inspired, remember that you also have dynamic lock screens since iOS 16. With them you will see the weather information or a special view of the Earth with that same background.
The Best Places to Get iPhone Wallpapers
Unsplash
Unsplash is, for me, the first place to look. It contains images of all kinds and with licenses that allow you to use them no copyright issues. For best results, search directly by “wallpaper” or use the tag with the same name.
Pixels
A website very similar to Unsplash is Pexels, which also offers high-quality, royalty-free photography. You can browse its search engine and use its tags to specify the search terms you prefer.
Wallhaven
Wallhaven seeks to be a hub for all wallpaper circulating on the Internet. Their tags contain styles of all kinds, although I would recommend this site if you are looking for backgrounds based on series, movies or video games.
Deviant art
Decades after its golden age, DeviantArt still exists and remains a very good place to find wallpapers created by amateur and professional artists.
Digisentials
One of my favorite wallpaper designers is Matt, who has a little shop called Digisentials on Gumroad. Her backgrounds are simple, minimalist and exquisite. Most cost a little money, although their prices are reasonable and there are always free samples. Guess where I got the header image wallpaper from.
Vlad.studio
Vlad Gerasimov has made enough space for himself over the years that his website with wallpapers is worth highlighting here. Their albums are worth the detour.
Wallpapers.com
Based on the domain name, Wallpapers.com seems to be the most obvious choice for exploring wallpapers for iPhone and other devices. Special mention to the enormous catalog of funds on films and series.
Other sites specializing in wallpapers
Some of the Basic Apple Guy wallpapers.
- Alphacoders has a section dedicated to mobile wallpapers that fit your iPhone perfectly.
- Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, offers large images in its interface. Most of them were collected from Bing Wallpaper and some might be your new wallpaper.
- Basic Apple Guy wallpapers are a must-have for all Apple brand enthusiasts.
- UHDpaper is a site that promises very high definitions for those of you who demand it.
- Rawpixel has a section with mostly minimalist wallpapers and simple colors.
- This is not a wallpaper website per se, but NASA Image Archives may be the best place for you if you like space backgrounds.
- This WallpapersCraft backgrounds section contains best resolution images suitable to be iPhone wallpapers.
- The /r/wallpapers subreddit is also a good corner of the internet to wander around looking for good wallpapers.
The most modern option: generating wallpapers with AI
Four wallpapers generated with Bing.
See these four wallpapers in the image above? Nobody designed them: were generated by an AIwith him fast “simple wallpaper with blue gradients”. This is proof that generative artificial intelligence should not be underestimated when looking for wallpaper inspiration. Here are some services to try this:
- Bing Image Creator is a free service that allows you to generate images without paying a single euro.
- Midjourney is perhaps the most popular image generator. You need Discord to use it, but its image quality may be the best you can get compared to its competitors.
- Stable Diffusion is another imager that can be considered one of the pioneers.
- Ideogram is another website with which you can generate images from text and find a unique wallpaper that no one else has. Additionally, text can be added without it being distorted by algorithms.
Keep in mind that most of the images you generate from these services won’t be very high quality unless you use their paid accounts, although you also have the option of using other AI such as Pixelmator to be able to increase this resolution without problem.
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