Everyone loves to make their smartphones attractive by applying unique but decent wallpapers on them. Moreover, with the introduction of AMOLED screens, smartphones have gone wild like never before. People love the experience these wallpapers give them every time you turn them on. And with so many exciting GIFs surfacing the internet, many iOS users have been searching for answers on how to make a GIF your wallpaper iPhone.
Since iPhone doesn’t let people set a GIF as their wallpaper through default settings, we had to search for its solution. And so we have.
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How To Make A GIF Your Wallpaper iPhone | Step By Step Guide
Before moving on to the solutions, let us first understand the actual problem. So, this problem has been recently raised by many iPhone users that whenever they try to set any GIF as their phone’s live wallpaper, the iPhone doesn’t let them do so and will put the GIF as an image on the wallpaper. Only iPhone users faced the problem, and many could not understand why this was happening.
To make things clear, the default settings of any iPhone model would not let you do so. This is a major drawback of the system settings with which customers are highly disappointed. While we can only hope that Apple fixes this issue in the upcoming models, we have brought certain solutions for this problem. With these methods, you can successfully put any GIF as wallpaper on your iPhone. So let us get started.
Convert GIFs to Live Photos (Using a third-party application)
The first way to put any GIF as wallpaper on your iPhone is through a third-party application. You will need to install the application along with a few steps guided below to complete the process.
- Open the App store on your iPhone and search for “GIF Convert by Pic Collage.” Download the app on your iPhone and open it.
- After opening the app, select the GIF you want to put as your wallpaper from your gallery. (You will need to save the GIF before downloading the app).
- Once uploaded, you can now crop or trim the GIF as per your need, or leave it as it is.
- Next, click on the drop-down button on the screen’s bottom.
- As you click on the drop-down button, the app will ask you three options for saving the video GIF, Video,or Live Photo.
- Click on the “Live Photo” option along with “High Resolution” and click on save.
- Now open settings in your iPhone. Go to wallpapers.
- Click on “Choose a new wallpaper.”
- Now click on the “Live Photos” option after choosing the live image you saved from the above app.
- Tap on “set,” and you are done.
Now you will see this GIF as a live wallpaper on your iPhone. You can also put it as your lock screen wallpaper. But an important thing to note here is that when you set the wallpaper for the lock screen, it will remain live, but on the home screen, it will still be a still image unless you long-press it on the home screen.
Using the GIPHY app
GIPHY is a popular app that contains a wide range of GIFs for you to choose from. You can use this app to set GIFs as your iPhone wallpaper. The only drawback is that you will have to select a GIF within the app itself. If you have any GIFs already downloaded, you can follow the previous method to put them as your wallpaper.
If you are good to go with GIPHY, follow the steps below.
- Open the App store and download the “GIPHY” app.
- Once downloaded, open the app and search for any GIF you want as your wallpaper on your iPhone.
- We recommend you choose a vertical GIF to fit on your screen. A horizontal GIF might not be as good-looking since it will get cropped.
- After you have decided which GIF to use, click on it.
- Click on the three-dot icon in the screen’s top right corner.
- Now, click on “Convert to Live Photos.”
- After this, you can choose any option as per your convenience between the “Save as Live Photo (Full Screen)” and “Save as Live Photo (Fit to Screen)” options that are displayed on the screen.
- Now open your photos app and open the GIF you saved from the GIPHY app. Click on the share button below it.
- Click on “Use as Wallpaper.”
- Now click on “set,” and you are done.
Your desired GIF will be set on your iPhone screen within no time. Although this was a bit of a lengthy process, you will be able to successfully execute it without any issues.
FAQs | How To Make A GIF Your Wallpaper iPhone
Why isn’t my iPhone letting me put a GIF as wallpaper directly?
This is one of the major drawbacks of the system. You cannot directly put a GIF as wallpaper. You will need to convert it into live images before setting them as wallpaper on your iPhone.
Can I import any external GIFs into GIPHY?
No, you will only have to choose among the GIFs available on the app. You cannot import them from external sources. GIPHY has a wide range of GIFs for you to choose from.
Conclusion
These are the ways through which you make any GIF as your iPhone wallpaper. However, both methods focus on converting the GIF to a live image since this is the only way the iPhone allows you to put it as wallpaper. This is a significant system drawback, and we hope the company fixes it in the upcoming models or software. Till then, you can indeed adopt any of the above methods. Just be sure to choose a vertical GIF to make things easier.
Follow the steps correctly and set any GIF you want as your wallpaper. You can set these wallpapers for both the home screen and lock screen, although it runs very smoothly on the lock screen.
