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Change wallpaper on your Pixel phone

You can change the background images on your phone's home and lock screens. You can choose from your own photos or the available preset images on your phone, including effects that change automatically.

Learn how to change the wallpaper on your Pixel phone with our step-by-step tutorial.

Important: Some of these steps require you to touch the screen.

Change wallpapers
  1. On your phone's Home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
  2. Tap Wallpapers & style.
    • To use a preset wallpaper or your own photo, tap More wallpapers.
  3. Tap Change wallpaper.
    • To adjust the lock and home screens separately, select between Lock screen or Home screen.
    • To use your own image, tap Choose a photo.
    • To use a preset wallpaper, tap a category And then an image.
    • To find suggested photos, scroll or tap More wallpapers.
  4. If available, select which screen shows the wallpaper.
  5. Tap Preview and then Apply.

Tip: You can create or customize your wallpaper with Live effects, AI, or emojis. Learn how to create and customize the wallpaper on your Pixel phone.

Change Home screen styles

To pick fonts, icons, shapes, and colors for your Home screen:

  1. On your phone’s Home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
  2. Tap Wallpaper & style and then Colors.
  3. Choose a style.
    • You can choose a preset color palette that corresponds with your existing wallpaper.
    • To customize your colors, tap Other colors.
  4. Tap Apply.
Change Home screen grid

To pick the grid size on your Home screen:

  1. On your phone’s Home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
  2. Tap Wallpaper & style.
  3. At the bottom, tap Layout.
  4. Choose a grid size.
  5. Tap Apply.
Download a Theme pack

Important:

You can change your phone’s wallpaper, icons, GIFs, and sounds with seasonal theme packs.

  1. On your phone's home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
  2. Tap Wallpaper & style and then Theme pack.
  3. Select a theme design.
  4. To customize the theme, tap Edit Edit.
    • You can change specific settings of the theme pack.
  5. At the top right, tap Download.
  6. When the download is complete and you receive the notification, tap Apply now.
    • If Apply now isn’t available, the Theme pack may take some time to download. You’ll receive a notification when the Theme pack is ready to use.
    • If you don’t tap Apply now, the Theme pack is automatically applied at 3 AM.
Use a daily wallpaper
  1. On your phone's Home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
  2. Tap Wallpaper & style and then Change wallpaper.
  3. Choose a wallpaper category.
  4. At the top right, tap Daily wallpaper .
  5. Tap Ok.

Tip: Daily wallpaper doesn't work with your personal photos or live wallpapers.

Create custom icons

You can select a style or use AI to generate custom app icons that match your phone’s theme.

  1. On your phone's home screen, touch and hold an empty area.
  2. Tap Wallpaper & style and then Icons and then Style.
  3. Choose a style for your icons:
    • Default
    • Minimal
    • Create your own
  4. To create your own custom icons, tap Create icons.
  5. Choose an offered style.
    • Some icon styles have additional variants.
  6. At the top right, tap Download and then Apply.

Tip: Your custom icons download in the background. When they’re ready, you get a notification. Your Pixel saves the custom icons you create, so you can use them again later.

Change the color & shape of icons

Choose icon shapes and colors for your home screen to customize your phone’s look:

  1. On your phone's home screen, touch and hold an empty area.
  2. Tap Wallpaper & style and then Icons and then Shape.
  3. Tap the icon shape you want to use.
  4. Tap Apply.

Tips:

  • This also works for folders that group multiple apps.
  • Icons in the all apps list won’t be stylized.

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