Apple makes it easy to display your favorite photos on your iPhone as "wallpaper" — the background image on which your phone's icons and other controls rest.
You can set a custom wallpaper on the lock screen and the home screen (also known as the app screen, where you find all the icons for your installed apps).
You might find, though, that the picture you want to use doesn't perfectly fit the screen. There are ways to fix that.
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How to make a picture fit the wallpaper on your iPhone
1. Start the Settings app and tap "Wallpaper."
2. Tap "Choose a new wallpaper."
3. On the "Choose" screen, pick the image you want to use.
4. Now pinch and expand your fingers to zoom in or out on the image and position it where you want to place it on the screen.
5. If you are having trouble including the edges of the photo, it's because Perspective Zoom is turned on, so the iPhone needs to zoom in on the photo, leaving a bit extra of the photo outside the edges to enable the perspective effect. Disable it by tapping the "Perspective Zoom" button at the bottom of the screen.
6. Tap "Set" and choose if you want to save it as your Lock Screen, Home Screen, or both.
How to make an entire picture fit the wallpaper on your iPhone (with black bars at the top and bottom)
If you want to include all of a photo, but your iPhone won't let you do so because the photo isn't tall enough, there's a trick to work around this limitation.
The problem is that your iPhone won't let you include blank space in a wallpaper — the selected photo must cover the screen, edge-to-edge, in every direction. But you can cheat by taking a screenshot of the photo in your iPhone's Photos app, which adds black bars to the empty spaces.
1. Open the photo you want to use in the Photos app.
2. Make sure you are zoomed in so the entire photo is visible.
3. Tap the photo so the background turns black.
4. Take a screenshot of the photo.
5. Start the Settings app and tap "Wallpaper." Tap "Choose a new wallpaper" and select the screenshot of your photo. You'll be able to include the entire photo from side to side, with black bars at the top and bottom.
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