Setting Wallpaper (Background image) in iOS Simulator home screen or lockscreen

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I was scratching my brains over something when this popped in my mind. Can we set the simulator's home-screen background image to an image of our choice? Case in point is Xcode 3.2.2 simulator 3.1.3.

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How to do this for the Simulator in 11.4.

  1. Drag and drop a photo on the phone.
  2. Go to photo app and view app.
  3. On the bottom bar you should see 3 icons. Hit the icon with the Arrow coming out of the box like you would AirDrop it to someone.
  4. On the Options panel you should see Use as Wallpaper right below the AirPlay option.

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Since this is an old question, I want to confirm this works in Simulator 13.2 for the iPhone 13 Pro Max (I'm running it on on macOS 12.2 Monterey).

  1. In the simulator take Safari to the image you want to set as the background

  2. Right click (or 2-finger press-click on trackpad)

  3. Selected "Add to Photo"s from Pop-up menu

  4. Open Photos app, and click the 'sharing' icon (box with up arrow coming out of it)

  5. Scroll the popup upwards until you see the "Use As Wallpaper" menu item (if you have a Magic Trackpad, you can scroll with a three-finger swipe-up up on the screen)

That's it. You can set the Home and Lock screen that way.

While developing an iOS iPhone app using the simulator, I copied a space scene with just stars for the background and and moved the app icons all to the home screen except left my app icon alone on a different page that way I minimized light and clutter.

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