Personalize your phone with a preset wallpaper or when you create a wallpaper with AI prompts on your Pixel device.
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On the home screen, touch and hold an empty space. Then, tap Wallpaper & style.
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Important: When you change your wallpaper selection, your system colors also change.
Tap More wallpapers.
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To choose a wallpaper from your Pixel’s presets, under “Choose a Wallpaper,” tap one of the photo categories.
Tip: You can also add photos from your photo library as a wallpaper.
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Select a preset wallpaper.
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Tap Set wallpaper.
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Choose where you want to place this wallpaper.
- Home screen: The wallpaper shows when you unlock your phone.
- Lock screen: The wallpaper shows when your phone is locked.
- Home and lock screens: You’ll have the same wallpaper when your phone is locked or unlocked.
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To generate a custom AI wallpaper:
- Go to your home screen.
- Touch and hold an empty space.
- Tap Wallpaper & style More wallpapers.
- Under “Create wallpaper,” tap AI wallpaper.
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Choose one of the themes.
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Your Pixel will provide a prompt to create the AI wallpaper based on the theme you chose.
To start to customize the image, tap the first underlined prompt.
Tip: To generate an image, tap Inspire me.
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To select new descriptions for your custom AI wallpaper, tap each underlined prompt.
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When you’re happy with your chosen prompt, tap Create wallpaper.
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Your Pixel will generate your new AI wallpaper based on the prompt you chose.
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If you’re happy with the AI wallpaper, tap Done .
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To preview the wallpaper, tap between home screen and lock screen. Then, tap Set wallpaper.
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Choose where you want to place this wallpaper.
- Home screen: The wallpaper shows when you unlock your phone.
- Lock screen: The wallpaper shows when your phone is locked.
- Home and lock screens: You’ll have the same wallpaper when your phone is locked or unlocked.