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Android: How to Change the Home Screen Wallpaper

If your home screen still shows the old background after you picked a new photo, chances are only the lock screen got updated. Android treats lock screen and home screen as separate wallpaper slots, so setting one does not automatically apply to the other. Once you know where the home screen option sits in the settings, switching between photo backgrounds and the built-in categories takes seconds.

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Change Home Screen Wallpaper auf Android

Android keeps the wallpaper for the lock screen and the home screen as two separate settings, even though both live under the same menu. If you only tap through the preview once and confirm at the last screen, the photo often ends up on the lock screen alone, leaving the home screen unchanged.

The relevant system function is the Wallpaper & style hub. It offers ready-made categories such as landscapes, structures, geometric shapes, art, and earth, plus the option to use your own photos through My photos.

To apply a change specifically to the home screen: SettingsWallpaper & styleMore wallpapers ➔ pick a category or tap My photos ➔ choose a photo ➔ adjust the crop and tap Set wallpaperHome screen.

If icon colors or widget accents shift after the change, check whether a color-matching option inside the theme settings is active. It pulls an accent color from the new wallpaper and applies it system-wide, which is expected behavior rather than a bug.

For animated or interactive backgrounds, look for live wallpapers inside the same More wallpapers screen instead of the static photo categories.

Frequently asked questions

Android saves separate wallpapers for lock screen and home screen. If you tap Lock screen at the final step instead of Home screen, only the lock screen preview updates.