Wallpapers

A Google user

5 years ago

Good app. Works as described. However the library if wall papers seems small as I get plenty of repeats. With Some of them particularly the architectural ones you cannot see icons and notifications on your screen. Needs to be updated with more pictures, option to add your own and other basic features. Come on Google. 1/2 a days work for one of your programmers!

Barry Chuckle

4 years ago

I wrote this over a year ago and still the app is not user friendly: Poor how setting a wallpaper takes you out of the app and to make any adjustments to its zoom, etc, you have to releaunch the settings and go through all of the wallpapers and simply start again. Also, the lack of proper description for what the live wallpapers, etc, do, is very unhelpful. They don't seem to do much at all.

A Google user

5 years ago

I love it to look at the pictures. But usually the pictures interfere with what you can actually see on the screen. I take a screenshot with my hand over the lens so it's black. That's my. Kind of like dark mode. But it can't have colors. with my option you don't have something written in white at the bottom of a waterfall. I'm sure you'd experienced

skeet yeye

4 years ago

It's good, but I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the fact that I can't upload a live wallpaper. The only thing showing up for me is a black video that isn't on my device, nor can I find it in my storage. It doesn't look like how it looks like in the preview, which would be fine but it restricts some of the extra stuff like timing backgrounds. It does do great with quality, but otherwise I'm simply frustrated that no matter what I try I can't get a live wallpaper.

Michelle Bentz

1 year ago

This app used to be well optimized for all of the devices I've used over the past few years, but it's just gotten worse in quality. The app has not been updated since 2020, that's three years. Every single time I try to select a custom photo from my library it crashes, even after force stopping the app and restarting my phone. The wallpapers built into the app have been the same for almost a decade now.

Jim Gysin

3 years ago

The available images can be scrolled from left to right as you review them, so I assumed that if I picked a certain portion of an image before setting it as my wallpaper, the app would crop the image appropriately at that spot for my phone screen. But it doesn't seem to do that. Instead, it makes the image into the home screen, but makes its own decision as to which part of that image is shown. This is not acceptable, and I don't see any settings options that might allow me to overcome this.

Lisa (Lisa Meow 26)

2 years ago

BEAUTIFUL photos! I love that I can enlarge and move the photo around to get exactly what I want out of it for my wallpaper. I didn't even realize that at first! Like in "Landscapes", I'll use a tiny portion blown up. Can barely tell which photo I'm using. 😉 I'm really only into a few of the series tho. E.g., in "Seascapes" the shots don't differ a whole lot. And I can't figure out how to get my own photos in there although there seems to be a spot for them. But all in all, I love it & so easy!

A Google user

5 years ago

Ever since the March 2020 Android update (Pixel 3), the wallpaper seems to randomly revert back to a wallpaper it seems to have randomly selected. I even deleted the wallpaper it's using from my phone and it's still coming back. I have probably set my wallpaper over a dozen times. Tried the daily wallpaper, an image on my phone. No difference, the phone seems to have a mind of its own and chooses the wallpaper for me.

Carolyn Kissinger-Elkins

1 year ago

I'm not a fan of having a whole lot of wallpapers and switching them out. I tend to go for a very dark almost pitch black wallpaper with a little bit of texture... For those who like wallpapers, it's probably middle of the road, and as I recall from scrolling through it, it contains wallpapers I've seen on other sites. DOWNGRADE to 1-Star. CAN'T DELETE IT. Google is not satisfied following the phone, controlling most everything on the phone. 🙄

GS Cra

1 year ago

Might be an instant winner for ease of use, and simple functionality; but for the fact that it automatically and aggressively crops every image to the point that I NEVER get to see a full-screen shot of the WHOLE image, as desired. Whoever thought this was a great idea should be fired. Now I'm forced to spend precious hours searching the Google Store for an app, (any app for that matter), that will manually change the screen background to EXACTLY the image I select, and set it up, AS IS.

Isabel Alvarez

4 years ago

Please fix the shifting!! I chose the wallpaper I want, look at the preview and when I click set wallpaper it's either shifted to a whole other place. I'm giving it 2 stars cuz overall it pretty easy to use and I like the preview feature but the whole shifting thing is just very annoying and takes the purpose out of the preview. Oh and another thing, for the home screen wallpaper, could u give us the option of weather or not we want to move the wallpaper along with the screen. Thank you :3

Mridul Bhushan

3 years ago

Kindly, update the collection from time to time. I've been seeing same set of wallpapers since eons. The collection has only been updated once since the application's launch! Furthermore, upon applying the wallpaper, it sets the region of display which is not what user has selected. Lastly, there are a large number of photos which are of poor quality. Google Inc. should set certain protocols related to the quality, resolution, etc of wallpapers being uploaded. A potent app, needs refinement!

A Google user

6 years ago

This used to be my daily highlight! I loved and looked forward to seeing the beautiful changing (landscape photos) I don't know what happened. It's not been working, I turned phone off. I went into settings, tried a few things. I was going to uninstall to reinstall but it said I couldn't because it's an App already installed ( I think factory from my phone)? it's upsetting and frustrating that I have to see the same thing daily

Cyphress

1 year ago

I like it but wish that over the years maybe there would be new selections added or even replaced with new all new even. I'm pretty sure it's the same categories and pictures but I could be wrong and missed something I guess. I also wish it was capable of hosting and implementing non-static wallpapers and parallax too. Also, a mode where it cycles automatically through a selection of chosen images would be nice too as an option. My favorite feature is that most pics include link to original art.

Ja Le Gr

3 years ago

There are some great photos, but it doesn't tell you where the photo is taken which would be nice, and as white is the default Android notification font color, sometimes it displays a light enough background that you can't see the notification bar or what's there; which then makes me have to go in and manually choose another background (sometimes two or three times). And lately, the wallpaper selected in the app isn't the same as to what's applied to my phone.

kareden morgan

4 years ago

Another great idea that has been left to languish by Google. Live wallpapers are one of the few features that are unique to the Android space. Maybe live wallpapers aren't as trendy as they once were, but it's something that makes my Pixel 3 fun to use. And I would really miss them if I switch to iOS. Why not add new ones from time to time? Why introduce the feature if that was not the intent to begin with? So, thanks Google for letting another interesting feature become just stale.

A Google user

11 months ago

Great images but there's one MAJOR shortcoming: The only way to save one of these images is to set it as a home screen wallpaper and then take a screenshot. You can only set them on your home or lock screens from within the app. ALL wallpaper apps should allow image saving although unfortunately many don't. Would be perfect otherwise.