Change or create a wallpaper on your Pixel phone

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On the home screen, touch and hold an empty space. Then, tap Wallpaper & style.

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Important: When you change your wallpaper selection, your system colors also change.
Tap More wallpapers.

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Select a preset wallpaper.

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Tap Set wallpaper.

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Choose where you want to place this wallpaper.

• Home screen: The wallpaper shows when you unlock your phone.
• Lock screen: The wallpaper shows when your phone is locked.
• Home and lock screens: You’ll have the same wallpaper when your phone is locked or unlocked.

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To generate a custom AI wallpaper:

1. Go to your home screen.
2. Touch and hold an empty space.
3. Tap Wallpaper & style 👁 and then
   More wallpapers.
4. Under “Create wallpaper,” tap AI wallpaper.

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Choose one of the themes.

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Your Pixel will provide a prompt to create the AI wallpaper based on the theme you chose.

To start to customize the image, tap the first underlined prompt.

Tip: To generate an image, tap Inspire me.

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To select new descriptions for your custom AI wallpaper, tap each underlined prompt.

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When you’re happy with your chosen prompt, tap Create wallpaper.

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Your Pixel will generate your new AI wallpaper based on the prompt you chose.

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If you’re happy with the AI wallpaper, tap Done 👁 Image
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To preview the wallpaper, tap between home screen and lock screen. Then, tap Set wallpaper.

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Choose where you want to place this wallpaper.

• Home screen: The wallpaper shows when you unlock your phone.
• Lock screen: The wallpaper shows when your phone is locked.
• Home and lock screens: You’ll have the same wallpaper when your phone is locked or unlocked.

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