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Why Does My Lock Screen Keep Going Black

Wallpaper showing as black screen on iPhone or iPad

Some iPhone and iPad users have noticed that their wallpaper is showing up as a black screen on the Lock Screen or Home Screen, rather than the wallpaper image they intended to display. This can happen at random, and the wallpaper black screen can also appear when attempting to change the wallpaper on the iPhone or iPad.

If you’re seeing a plain black screen instead of the photo you’d like to see as your wallpaper on iPhone or iPad, you’re not alone, but fortunately this is a pretty easy fix.

The black screen wallpaper problem seems to happen most often when a wallpaper image is selected from the Photos app, or set through the Photos app action/sharing menu. A workaround to this is to set the wallpaper from within the Settings app instead of directly from the Photos app.

How to Fix Black Screen Showing as Wallpaper Instead of Photo on iPhone & iPad

If you’re just seeing a black screen or black image instead of the wallpaper photo you expected, here’s how you can get around that and have your lock screen wallpaper working again as expected:

  1. Go to the Settings app on iPhone or iPad
  2. Go to Wallpaper
  3. Select “Choose a New Wallpaper” and select the photo or image you want to use as your wallpaper
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Now your wallpaper will be visible as the image or photo you chose instead of just showing a black screen.

Why the wallpaper shows as a black screen instead of the photo you wish to see isn’t entirely clear, but it is widely reported and the complaint has been on the Apple support forums for a while. In testing, it appears to happen consistently on devices that are using iCloud Photos, but not necessarily on all devices that are using that feature, which makes it a bit unpredictable.

Presumably this is a bug that is in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, but it has yet to be fixed in the latest releases of system software. Keep up to date with software updates and it’s likely this will be resolved in the near future, but for the time being, the workaround to set your wallpaper within Settings app instead works just fine.

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