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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 Wallpaper & 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 screenor Home screen.
    • To use your own image, tap Choose a photo.
    • To use a preset wallpaper, tap a categoryAnd thenan image.
  4. If available, select which screen shows the wallpaper.
  5. Tap Previewand 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 & styleand 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 & styleand then Theme pack.
  3. Select a theme design.
  4. To customize the theme, tap EditEdit.
    • 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.

Tip:To learn more about specific Theme packs, go to Google Pixel Help Community .

Use a daily wallpaper
  1. On your phone's Home screen, touch and hold an empty space.
  2. Tap Wallpaper & styleand 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.

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 & styleand then Icons.
  3. Tap the icon shape you want to use.
  4. At the bottom, turn Themed iconson or off.
  5. 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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