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Set Live Photo as wallpaper on iPhone

You can set a Live Photo as wallpaper on all iPhone models except iPhone SE. You can play the Live Photo on your lock screen but not on your home screen.

Go to Settings > Wallpaper > Choose a new wallpaper. Do one of the following: Tap Live, then choose a Live Photo.

Tap your Live Photos album, then select a Live Photo (you may have to wait for it to download). Tap Set, then choose Set Lock Screen or Set Both.

To play the Live Photo, touch and hold the lock screen.

If you haven’t jumped on the TikTok bandwagon yet, this might convince you: you can use one of the platform’s millions of videos as a live wallpaper for your phone’s home and lock screens. This means that instead of a still image, there’s a video playing behind all your app icons.

If you’ve recently updated to Android 12, you’ll find this under the system’s background options. If you’re an iPhone user, the process isn’t that intuitive, but it’s even easier.

Keep in mind that not all videos on the platform can become live wallpapers – their availability depends on the creator allowing other users to download them. Playing a video in the background will drain your battery much faster than a photo. So keep that in mind if you need to connect your device before closing time.

Nevertheless, it’s worth it.

How to set a TikTok video as live wallpaper on Android phone

Setting a TikTok video as live wallpaper on Android phone is easy but requires many steps. Just open TikTok, find a video you like, tap on the three dots on the right side of the screen and click on the Set as wallpaper option. The app will then prompt you to download the wallpaper plugin from Google Play.

Open the plugin app and tap Open TikTok to set the wallpaper. When you do this, a full-screen preview of the video will play, and if it looks good to you, you can tap Set as wallpaper followed by Set wallpaper at the bottom of your screen. Android will then prompt you to choose whether you want to set the video as your home screen background or also on your lock screen.

[Related: Fix Your Boring Android Background With Live Wallpapers]

This last setting is important. Your phone remembers your choices and uses them every time you choose a new live wallpaper. If you want to change it, you can’t do it that easily: you have to go to Wallpaper & Style (long-press on an empty spot on your home screen), set an image as wallpaper, and then open the TikTok app to complete the process of the live wallpaper to repeat. Another caveat is that you can’t just have a live wallpaper on your lock screen — it’s either just your home screen, or both.

Your live wallpapers are stored in a gallery in the TikTok plugin. To open it, tap the icon, then tap Open TikTok to set the wallpaper. From there you can also adjust the background’s settings: tap the gear icon in the top-right corner of your screen and use the slider to change the volume, or tap the toggle next to double-tap to pause the video, to do this, you do exactly that. To delete a file, open the plugin, tap the three dots in the top right corner and choose Delete.

You can also access your live wallpaper gallery from the Android 12 interface. Just long-press an empty spot on your home screen, select Wallpaper & style, then go to Change wallpaper. From there, scroll down to find the videos under the TikTok logo. You can’t change the background settings here, and you’ll find that the app’s integration with Google’s latest operating system update isn’t seamless, as you can’t preview a video until you tap it. Before you do that, you’re stuck with TikTok icons that give you absolutely no clue as to which file is which.

How to set a TikTok video as a lock screen on an iPhone

On iPhones, there is no TikTok-based path that makes it easy to set videos as wallpaper. However, since you have fewer options, the process might be even easier than Android.

When you find the video you want on TikTok, tap the Share button (the curved arrow) and select Live Photo. This is basically the iOS version of a live wallpaper, but since it’s considered an image, the operating system automatically saves it to a new folder (portably called Live Photos) within the Photos app.

To set it as wallpaper, follow the same path you would use with a regular image: go to Settings, Background and choose a wallpaper. From there, scroll to the correct folder, select the file you want, tap Set, and choose where you want to use it.

[Related: Customize Your iPhone By Abandoning Those Boring Defaults]

There are two limitations when it comes to Live Photos on iOS. The first is that they are only animated as lock screen backgrounds. If you set a video for both the home screen and the lock screen, you will get stuck on the first frame as the home screen background. If you try to launch it with a long press on your home screen, your iPhone will think you’re trying to edit your apps. The second downside is that unlike Android, the live wallpaper doesn’t autoplay on your lock screen – you have to hold down for it to start playing.

Still, a live wallpaper is a great idea if you want something funny to see when checking your notifications, or just want to blow the uninitiated heads of those who have only seen static wallpapers so far.

Live wallpapers on Android phones and tablets can be quite nice. They’re not a reason to buy a phone, but they can give you typographic clocks, light grids, and other informative or attractive things to look at. But are they worth it?

Live wallpapers can potentially kill your battery in two ways: by causing your display to flash bright images, or by demanding constant action from your phone’s processor. On the display side, it might not matter much: your phone needs the same amount of light to display a dark color as it does a light color. Unless your phone has an OLED display, sometimes called AMOLED or Super AMOLED. As How-To Geek’s Chris Hoffman explains:

OLED screens don’t have a solid backlight. Each pixel on an OLED screen is an “organic light-emitting diode” that generates its own light. If the pixel is black, it produces no light. If the pixel is white, it produces light.

So switching to a black or very dark wallpaper can save battery life on certain phones (mostly Android models). There might be a few live wallpapers that involve moving very dark objects across a very dark background, but let’s assume they’re extremely rare.

So the other live wallpaper drain is CPU usage. The nature of the generally free-to-experiment Android market makes it difficult to judge all live wallpapers together. Some are hardworking, seriously efficient with system resources, and some have been absolutely thrown together over a weekend, riding the graphics and processor chips like a vengeful cowboy.

But it’s worth noting that even Google’s own default live wallpapers can slow things down. In his unusually positive review of the Nexus 7, MG Siegler noted the lag when navigating the home screen with a live wallpaper running. You can find complaints about live wallpaper battery theft on Hacker News, on Quora, on Tested and many other places.

Find out for yourself. In your Android device’s settings, select Battery and then scan the list of applications that have been using your battery since it was last charged. If you have a specific live wallpaper installed, it may appear by name in this list, or you may see the effects of your live wallpaper in Display. You could install an app like System Tuner to see exactly where your system is spending its resources, but a casual perusal of your phone’s battery history should reveal if there’s a notable discrepancy between your wallpaper or display and everything else.

Live wallpapers don’t use much power if they’re well made, if you don’t spend a lot of time on your home screen, and if you set your screen to turn off pretty soon after you’ve stopped interacting with it. All in all, however, live wallpapers are a good place to start if you want to reduce potential energy leaks.

This story, “Do live wallpapers cause noticeable battery drain on Android?” was originally published by ITworld.

If you haven’t jumped on the TikTok bandwagon yet, this might convince you: you can use one of the platform’s millions of videos as a live wallpaper for your phone’s home and lock screens. This means that instead of a still image, there’s a video playing behind all your app icons.

If you’ve recently updated to Android 12, you’ll find this under the system’s background options. If you’re an iPhone user, the process isn’t that intuitive, but it’s even easier.

Keep in mind that not all videos on the platform can become live wallpapers – their availability depends on the creator allowing other users to download them. Playing a video in the background will drain your battery much faster than a photo. So keep that in mind if you need to connect your device before closing time.

Nevertheless, it’s worth it.

How to set a TikTok video as live wallpaper on Android phone

Setting a TikTok video as live wallpaper on Android phone is easy but requires many steps. Just open TikTok, find a video you like, tap on the three dots on the right side of the screen and click on the Set as wallpaper option. The app will then prompt you to download the wallpaper plugin from Google Play.

Open the plugin app and tap Open TikTok to set the wallpaper. When you do this, a full-screen preview of the video will play, and if it looks good to you, you can tap Set as wallpaper followed by Set wallpaper at the bottom of your screen. Android will then prompt you to choose whether you want to set the video as your home screen background or also on your lock screen.

[Related: Fix Your Boring Android Background With Live Wallpapers]

This last setting is important. Your phone remembers your choices and uses them every time you choose a new live wallpaper. If you want to change it, you can’t do it that easily: you have to go to Wallpaper & Style (long-press on an empty spot on your home screen), set an image as wallpaper, and then open the TikTok app to complete the process of the live wallpaper to repeat. Another caveat is that you can’t just have a live wallpaper on your lock screen — it’s either just your home screen, or both.

Your live wallpapers are stored in a gallery in the TikTok plugin. To open it, tap the icon, then tap Open TikTok to set the wallpaper. From there you can also adjust the background’s settings: tap the gear icon in the top-right corner of your screen and use the slider to change the volume, or tap the toggle next to double-tap to pause the video, to do this, you do exactly that. To delete a file, open the plugin, tap the three dots in the top right corner and choose Delete.

You can also access your live wallpaper gallery from the Android 12 interface. Just long-press an empty spot on your home screen, select Wallpaper & style, then go to Change wallpaper. From there, scroll down to find the videos under the TikTok logo. You can’t change the background settings here, and you’ll find that the app’s integration with Google’s latest operating system update isn’t seamless, as you can’t preview a video until you tap it. Before you do that, you’re stuck with TikTok icons that give you absolutely no clue as to which file is which.

How to set a TikTok video as a lock screen on an iPhone

On iPhones, there is no TikTok-based path that makes it easy to set videos as wallpaper. However, since you have fewer options, the process might be even easier than Android.

When you find the video you want on TikTok, tap the Share button (the curved arrow) and select Live Photo. This is basically the iOS version of a live wallpaper, but since it’s considered an image, the operating system automatically saves it to a new folder (portably called Live Photos) within the Photos app.

To set it as wallpaper, follow the same path you would use with a regular image: go to Settings, Background and choose a wallpaper. From there, scroll to the correct folder, select the file you want, tap Set, and choose where you want to use it.

[Related: Customize Your iPhone By Abandoning Those Boring Defaults]

There are two limitations when it comes to Live Photos on iOS. The first is that they are only animated as lock screen backgrounds. If you set a video for both the home screen and the lock screen, you will get stuck on the first frame as the home screen background. If you try to launch it with a long press on your home screen, your iPhone will think you’re trying to edit your apps. The second downside is that unlike Android, the live wallpaper doesn’t autoplay on your lock screen – you have to hold down for it to start playing.

Still, a live wallpaper is a great idea if you want something funny to see when checking your notifications, or just want to blow the uninitiated heads of those who have only seen static wallpapers so far.

Set Live Photo as wallpaper on iPhone

You can set a Live Photo as wallpaper on all iPhone models except iPhone SE. You can play the Live Photo on your lock screen but not on your home screen.

Go to Settings > Wallpaper > Choose a new wallpaper. Do one of the following: Tap Live, then choose a Live Photo.

Tap your Live Photos album, then select a Live Photo (you may have to wait for it to download). Tap Set, then choose Set Lock Screen or Set Both.

To play the Live Photo, touch and hold the lock screen.

Live wallpapers on Android phones and tablets can be quite nice. They’re not a reason to buy a phone, but they can give you typographic clocks, light grids, and other informative or attractive things to look at. But are they worth it?

Live wallpapers can potentially kill your battery in two ways: by causing your display to flash bright images, or by demanding constant action from your phone’s processor. On the display side, it might not matter much: your phone needs the same amount of light to display a dark color as it does a light color. Unless your phone has an OLED display, sometimes called AMOLED or Super AMOLED. As How-To Geek’s Chris Hoffman explains:

OLED screens don’t have a solid backlight. Each pixel on an OLED screen is an “organic light-emitting diode” that generates its own light. If the pixel is black, it produces no light. If the pixel is white, it produces light.

So switching to a black or very dark wallpaper can save battery life on certain phones (mostly Android models). There might be a few live wallpapers that involve moving very dark objects across a very dark background, but let’s assume they’re extremely rare.

So the other live wallpaper drain is CPU usage. The nature of the generally free-to-experiment Android market makes it difficult to judge all live wallpapers together. Some are hardworking, seriously efficient with system resources, and some have been absolutely thrown together over a weekend, riding the graphics and processor chips like a vengeful cowboy.

But it’s worth noting that even Google’s own default live wallpapers can slow things down. In his unusually positive review of the Nexus 7, MG Siegler noted the lag when navigating the home screen with a live wallpaper running. You can find complaints about live wallpaper battery theft on Hacker News, on Quora, on Tested and many other places.

Find out for yourself. In your Android device’s settings, select Battery and then scan the list of applications that have been using your battery since it was last charged. If you have a specific live wallpaper installed, it may appear by name in this list, or you may see the effects of your live wallpaper in Display. You could install an app like System Tuner to see exactly where your system is spending its resources, but a casual perusal of your phone’s battery history should reveal if there’s a notable discrepancy between your wallpaper or display and everything else.

Live wallpapers don’t use much power if they’re well made, if you don’t spend a lot of time on your home screen, and if you set your screen to turn off pretty soon after you’ve stopped interacting with it. All in all, however, live wallpapers are a good place to start if you want to reduce potential energy leaks.

This story, “Do live wallpapers cause noticeable battery drain on Android?” was originally published by ITworld.