Pixel telephones might perchance also quickly attend you to to position completely different dwell wallpapers on dwelling and lock screens

Wallpapers play a mammoth purpose in helping you personalize your Android cellular phone, and that’s in particular factual for the explanation that introduction of Cloth You dynamic theming, which colorizes app interfaces and icons the use of colors pulled from your wallpaper. That’s a part of the purpose Android updates many times encompass contemporary wallpapers. However, Android doesn’t but attend you to to position one dwell wallpaper as your lock display veil veil, and any other as your non-public dwelling display veil veil background. We bear a ballpark estimate of when this characteristic might perchance also accomplish its draw to Android, no longer no longer as much as on Pixel telephones.

By default, Android skill that you just can position separate static backgrounds for the house and lock screens, or a static picture on the lock display veil veil and a dwell wallpaper on the house display veil veil. You might perchance even set up the identical dwell wallpaper on both, playing a soundless animation when you happen to unlock your instrument. However, it is no longer doable to position one dwell wallpaper as your lock display veil veil and any other as your non-public dwelling display veil veil background. Effectively, Android prohibits the simultaneous use of two dwell wallpapers.

We noticed code commits attend in March suggesting this habits might perchance also swap. Now, Android alpha geek Mishaal Rahman has noticed a Google IssueTracker put up suggesting the characteristic has been implemented within the Android quarterly platform liberate (QPR) that’s at convey in pattern. If all the pieces goes to idea, that might perchance be the underlying QPR for the December 2023 Pixel Feature Drop.

This conversation between the IssueTracker creator, a Samsung engineer, and the Google staffer, likely wasn’t supposed for the sector to glimpse because it appears to reference the defective designate ID. Whereas most of us will prefer to attend till the official liberate of this characteristic, Rahman draw out that folk overjoyed with root uncover admission to to their telephones can allow the next toggle in contemporary Android 14 public beta builds to permit the characteristic.

It goes to appear deal with a minor swap, however the skill to seem at dwell wallpapers to your non-public dwelling and lock screens self sustaining of every completely different will most likely be a gargantuan transfer for personalization enthusiasts. For occasion, you will even bear an informative lock display veil veil wallpaper with a lot of glanceable records, whereas your non-public dwelling display veil veil uses Android 14’s contemporary emoji wallpapers to make certain app icons stand out, prioritizing purpose over safe. It will moreover tie in nicely with Android 14’s contemporary lock display veil veil personalization alternatives. That acknowledged, timelines might perchance also shift, and this might perchance no longer be treated as a promise for a rollout in December.