Wallpapers

Wallpapers are a great way to personalize your iPhone and make it stand out. There are countless designs to choose from, including nature scenes, abstract patterns, and iconic imagery. Whether you prefer a bold and colorful look or something more subdued and minimalistic, there’s a wallpaper for every taste and style. With new options added regularly, you’ll never run out of options for customizing your iPhone.

Refine your search for the perfect background by selecting a category below, or simply browse our archive of thousands of images for free.

Waves: a macOS Big Sur-inspired wallpapers pack

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated July 15, 2024

Our iDownloadBlog Wallpapers of the Week features photo quality images for your favorite Apple devices. Some of our most popular wallpapers are in the "abstract" and "geometric" genres. No surprise, Apple related wallpapers also draw a big crowd. In today's gallery addition, we combine all three of those categories with the Waves Wallpapers pack. With a macOS Big Sur wallpaper inspired design, we get Apple flair, adding abstract and geometric shapes, all with incredible color schemes, at supreme resolutions.

Multicolor gradient wallpapers pack for iPhone

Jim Gresham ∙ May 9, 2021

Despite being completely minimalist, gradient wallpapers are some of the most popularly downloaded images on the iDownloadBlog Wallpapers of the Week gallery. This collection features extremely smooth gradient transitions in single colors. From hot pink to dark turquoise, there is a color for every setup.

ChatWall lets jailbreakers set a wallpaper in the Messages app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 6, 2021

On a bone stock iPhone, the Messages app sports a plain background — either black when using dark mode or white when using light mode. If you’ve ever craved something with a bit more pizzazz than that, then you’d be out of luck.

Fortunately for jailbreakers, running a bone-stock setup isn’t necessary, and a newly released and free jailbreak tweak named ChatWall by iOS developer Chr1s offers an effective way to change the Messages app’s background to virtually anything you want.

Dunescape desert wallpapers for iPhone and iPad

Jim Gresham ∙ May 2, 2021

Nature's beauty is always inspiring. In this desert wallpaper pack, both the minimally attractive sand dunes and rich colored skies bring an incredible majesty to your Home and Lock Screen. The colors cross from dark greens and blues, to high toned pinks and purples.

Colorful water droplet wallpapers for iPhone

Jim Gresham ∙ April 25, 2021

If it's Sunday, then we release incredible, photo quality Wallpapers of the Week. In my quest across the many corners of the worldwide web, I stumbled across these extremely simple, colorful water droplet wallpaper designs. With bold colors, well placed light and shadows, they were a must for the collection. Red, blue, green, and orange options give you plenty of choices.

CarPlay++ is a tweak that lets jailbreakers personalize their CarPlay Home Screen

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 24, 2021

If you’re fortunate enough to have a CarPlay-ready vehicle, then you’re probably familiar with just how restrictive the CarPlay experience can feel, especially from a personalization perspective.

Jailbreakers who might be looking to augment their CarPlay user experience can now take advantage of a new and free jailbreak tweak dubbed CarPlay++ by iOS developer Dcsyhi, which offers aesthetic-boosting qualities for CarPlay in addition to performance-boosting ones.

Colorful iPhone wallpapers to match the new Spring collection of iPhone 12 cases

Jim Gresham ∙ April 23, 2021

With new hardware and a new spring season, Apple also "Spring Loaded" new accessory colors for Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. The new MagSafe versions of the iPhone 12 silicone cases came in four very springy new color ways, Cantaloupe, Pistachio, Capri Blue, and Amethyst. Some of the Apple Watch bands are near matches to these colors as well. To ensure you can celebrate these new colors without spending any money on new accessories, you can download these color matching wallpapers for iPhone.

New iMac color matching wallpapers for iPhone, iPad, and desktop

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated November 8, 2021

With a brand new design refresh not seen since before 2010, the 2021 iMac boasts seven (technically six) brand new color ways. Each of these devices was advertised with a playful, color matching background. We have a giant iMac wallpaper pack that is a reproduction of these images, ready for download and installation on your current iPad, iPhone, or desktop machine.

How to display a book cover as your Kindle Lock Screen wallpaper

Sébastien Page ∙ April 22, 2021

For the longest time, Amazon wouldn't let Kindle users set the cover of the book they are currently reading as their Lock Screen wallpaper, which in hindsight seemed like a very odd decision considering how popular of a feature request it was. But things change, and Amazon is now allowing users to do just that. In this post, we'll talk about what devices support this new feature, who can enable it, and how to enable it.

iPad Pro 2021 Apple promotional wallpapers

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 27, 2021

At the "Spring Loaded" Apple event on Tuesday, April 20, Tim Cook and company announced updates to the iPad Pro lineup. The biggest feature enhancement, other than touting a desktop class M1 Apple silicon chipset, is the Liquid Retina XDR display. Shining at 1,000 nits of brightness, with 1,600 nits of peak brightness and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ration, this screen is going to be phenomenal. To showcase the new device, Apple used several wallpaper variations on the website. Download them now for iPad and iPhone.

New wallpapers inspired by the ‘Spring Loaded’ Apple event products

Jim Gresham ∙ April 20, 2021

Today, Apple announced new iPad Pro, iMac, Apple TV, and AirTag hardware. Most striking is the all new, completely redesigned iMac line up, which has not been significantly updated since around 2009. The decade old design gives way to an 11mm thin chassis, poised on top of a minimal stand. The "hello" wallpaper used to announce the device harkens back to when Steve Jobs launched the Lisa. Download this collection of Apple 'Spring Loaded' hardware inspired wallpapers.

Geometric circles wallpapers for iPhone

Jim Gresham ∙ April 18, 2021

It's always surprising how a simple shape can make such a complex design. A simple circle when utilized en mass creates complex and attractive design. Combining this further with properly selected color an we have an incredible new addition for the iDB Wallpapers of the Week.