In this guide, we will show you various methods to fix the wallpapers not working/missing issues on iOS 17 Beta 2. The seventeenth iteration of the OS build has bought in a slew of noteworthy features, however, at the time of writing, it’s still in the preview phase, so a few rough edges are along the expected lines. And that has indeed been the case.
In the past, we have already covered a slew of issues, and now, there has been another unwanted entry to this list. Numerous users have voiced their concern that wallpapers are not working or altogether missing from their devices running the latest iOS 17 Beta 2. In this regard. here are a few noteworthy issues that are bugging quite a lot of users:
- Wallpapers are not visible on the Home Screen or Lock Screen.
- Cannot Edit Wallpapers from the Lock Screen.
- Pressing and holding the lock screen does not bring up the option to customize wallpapers.
- The device tends to freeze when pressing the plus icon to add new wallpaper from Settings > Wallpaper.
- Hitting the Share icon on a photo and choosing “Use as Wallpaper” does not work.
While these issues are no doubt quite infuriating, to say the least, but there do exist a few workarounds that might help you rectify some, if not all, of these issues. So without further ado, let’s check them out.
Fix iOS 17 Beta 2 Wallpapers not working/missing
It is recommended that you go through each of these issues and then try out the one which is in sync with your requirement.
- For the first issue, restarting the device actually bought back all the missing wallpapers.
- For the second issue, try creating a new wallpaper and add a few widgets to it. Then retry editing wallpapers, and this time you should not face any issues.
- Simply Press and hold the lock screen a couple of times and it should fix the third issue, aka bring up the option to customize wallpapers.
- For the fourth and fifth issues, there isn’t any workaround as such, however, restarting did spell out success for a handful of users, so do give it a try and check out the result.
That’s it. These were some nifty workarounds that might help you fix the wallpapers not working/missing issues on iOS 17 Beta 2. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
zuum
time date obscured by wallpaper with 17.0.1 update!
Monodeep Chowdhury
Unable to change the wallpaper and locksreen after trying so many times
Just To Help
Change your region to anything except your actual home region then change it back. Works 100% of the time.
junior
thank you!!!