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Wallpapers and app icons

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The wallpaper behind the app, and the icon on your home screen.

Wallpapers

Settings Appearance & Accessibility Wallpaper sets the surface everything sits on. Plus

You can use a supplied wallpaper or your own image.

Set a light and dark pair. A single image that looks right in light mode is usually wrong in dark, so wallpapers can carry both and switch with your theme. Setting only one is the most common reason a wallpaper looks bad half the time.

App icons

Settings Appearance & Accessibility App Icon changes the icon on your home screen. Plus

More useful than it sounds in two cases: telling two accounts apart, and making the app easy to find on a crowded home screen.

Going further

Keep it quiet. This is behind text you read every day. A busy wallpaper costs legibility continuously and buys novelty once.

Days and lists sit on top. A day background overrides the wallpaper for that page. See dressing up a day.

Settings that change this

Tips

  • Use a photo you like at very low contrast. Anything with detail behind text is a mistake you will notice for weeks.
  • Different app icons per account is the single best use of this feature.