I have a live wallpaper that I use. I don’t like a busy background, so most pictures are not going to work for me. The live wallpaper is of grasses swaying in the breeze, under a blue sky. So the screen is 1/4 grass, 3/4 sky. And, it changes with the time of day! so right now, it is a starlit sky. In the morning, it will start pale blue, in the afternoon it will start to show sunset, full sunset is lovely, then dusk falls. It makes me feel like I’m outside all day, in nature, and it makes me happy.

This was this morning about 7am. If I remember, I'll post a sunset later. Imagine the grasses swaying softly. I can make the grass taller or shorter, more or less dense, this is my favorite setting (leaves more blue sky for background).

Nearly 6pm in NE IL, it isn’t quite this dark out. I forgot to look at the screen at sunset.

About 5:30 Thursday. I just enjoy watching it change throughout the day.

I use pictures I have taken, but they are ones that look sort of blurred out so they make nice unbusy backgrounds. My phone has a sunset, my iPad has a winter sea view.

Here’s the sea view one.

That's pretty much what I do. I zoom in so much I'm not sure you can tell what it is, sometimes. Except my cats. The zoom is so much that you can see the cats' eyes color, fur patterns, fluffness... I feel like I'm there with them.

I do the whole plants moving in the wind thing, with the plants, outside, regardless of what season. There is nothing more peaceful than that-is there? There is no replacement for it. I feel like my heart and my lungs breathe and beat with it. So amazing❣️

I have black screens on both computer and phone. I like a clean look.

I have my Maine Coon cat Bernie on my phone, my beloved dog Ziggy who died last year on the computer screen, and my FB has my pond and koi on the top. I just noticed my deceased cat, Henry is my profile here.

Welcome back, Rob! 😉

I’ve got a picture kf my kids from a ski trip several years ago. I'm pretty bored of it and have thought to change it, but haven't made the effort to find something new.

I was never gone, but, hello 😃

I use photos I've taken, limited to "places" - and they rotate every hour.

Rob, this thread was posted from a different account, that’s all.

Photos of my granddaughters on all devices.

New phone is the reason food. I was confused. It was me all along ;)

bpath - Do you have a link to that screen? Also, it is an iPhone?

A few people I follow online occasionally make their photos or art available for screen shots or downloads for phone wallpaper, so sometimes I use those. Otherwise, I will use a pretty picture I have taken, usually something from nature.

Cindy, I have an Android and it is a free app called Grass, from the phone’s Play Store. I just added the shot from Dusk tonight. or is this twilight? I’ll have to go look up which comes first.

I prefer plain backgrounds. Anything with detail makes the appearance too busy and an obstacle to locating icons.

Here's my favorite one:

I mostly have bokeh images of lights, downloaded from my Backgrounds app, often cropped to enlarge and zoom in, and I switch them out according to my mood and season. I always try to pick colors/images that give me a pleasant feeling, and I don't use my own photos.

Not my phone, just some examples

I also like naturescapes sans people or animals.

I have a pic of our daughter and 2 granddaughters on my lock screen. Pic on home screen is our son holding the girls. They ADORE Uncle Nicky ❤️

Sephia, your cat is two-timing you. He’s snoozing in a sunbeam at my house right now. Really, almost identical!

bpath - Thanks! Apparently it's no longer free.

My own photos: Hummingbird on the locked screen, night shot on the unlocked screen.

@rob333 (zone 7b)...What phone did you buy?

PS....LOVE your flower photo....wowser....great POV(point of view)

Thanks! I hate my phone. It'll get me through. I think I paid a hundred bucks for it.

I don't think my flower photo obscures my icon location? Even on a super cheap phone 😉

Lars told me how much he liked his phone so I purchased what he has. A Samsung A13, 5G. It's awesome....and about $100 on Ebay. I hope that helps...

Kiddo always loves her Samsung phones. I get it. I'm just really rough on phones. That, and jeans, and left tennis shoes, for some reason? I'm happy to spend money on many other things, but not those three!

bpath, what the heck?!? My Henry is two-timing me??? I'm cutting him off his catnip!

I change mine seasonally. This is my everyday, most of the year theme/lockscreen. For Halloween. its Oogie Boogie, Thanksgiving gets a cartoon turkey and Christmas gets changed several times throughout the season because there are just too many good ones to settle on one.

You totally made me smile ❣️

If I had to guess, I totally would have thought it was yours. It's so you, Amy🥰

I don't understand totally nondescript stuff, but I'm not everybody.

It's fun to change it around from time to time.

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And nothing is all that distracting. If you can't choose your icons, maybe you should put them in folders? Or move them around so you can find them? But lock screen, doesn't matter at all for that. And home screen is super easy. Especially since there are so many pages you can put the icons on? I guess some people are easily confused. Or not. I don't understand the issue. Because I'm so happy to have things that spark joy. I just love being surrounded by things that make me happy ❣️