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How to change the wallpaper on Android phones and tablets

Learn to change the wallpaper easily.

For many it may seem like a very simple action, but the reality is that not everyone knows how to change the wallpaper on their mobile phone or tablet, if so, don’t worry! It is normal, either because you are starting to use Android devices or it simply costs you more in the world of new technologies. In Wallery we will teach you the easiest ways to do it through the following tutorial.

  • If you don’t want to complicate your life, we recommend you download our wallpapers application, which has been designed to make it very easy to change your wallpaper. In this case, once downloaded you will only have to select the background that you like the most, click on the + button and select “set wallpaper”.

  • Another way to change the wallpaper of almost any Android phone and tablet is to press and hold a free area on the home screen (without any icon or widget). Once this is done, a menu with different options will appear, among them there will be one that will put “change wallpaper” or similar. Depending on the model and brand, it may appear in a floating window or as an icon at the bottom.

    When selecting this option, the first thing we will see are the stock wallpapers that are by default on our device. However, if you want to put your own image, we will see that there will be an option to select an image from the storage of our phone or tablet.

    Once we have selected the image we want, depending on the launcher that our device has, a last screen may appear to center or crop the image we select, when you have it ready you will only need to hit the button to set wallpaper and select where we want That you put it, we can choose between the home screen, lock screen or both.
  • And the last method would be from the settings of our smartphone or tablet, once there we will move to the screen section. Next, you should see an option to change the wallpaper.

Now that you’ve learned how to change your device’s wallpaper, you may be wondering: Where can I download backgrounds? You are in the right place, Wallery is a specialist in this. Click the link below to go to the mobile phone and tablet wallpapers section.