IpadOS 17 Live Wallpapers not supported problem

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davidsup OP
Created Jun ’23
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Im running into an issue with the new ipadOS17 live photo wallpapers feature. I'm trying to convert a video into a live photo using several apps from the app store like IntoLive, VideoToLive. Once these videos are converted to the live photo format and I try to set them as a wallpaper, the wallpaper menu states that the wallpaper is not supported or more clearly it says "Motion from this live photo is not supported as a wallpaper". I've tried reducing the video quality, video length, aspect ratio, and none of those options seem to fix the issue. The only live wallpapers that appear to work are those taken from the iPad camera. I hope this can be fixed since its one of the new major features of iPadOS 17.

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Philip_Chang OP
Jun ’23

Even some of my photos taken on my iPad don’t supported either. Hopefully Apple put out some offical documents for what makes a photo support live wallpaper.

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HeySora OP
Jun ’23

Also impacted with the same error here, on my iPhone, running iOS 17.

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Belensmontana OP
Jul ’23

I have the same issue. Some of my live photos don’t work as live wallpaper, and also, I’ve download live photos from Tiktok (you know, this beautiful videos that you can actually download as live photos) but I think the’re not supported on ios 17 To use as wallpapers? that too bad because it makes the user experience so limited.

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Tonzion OP
Jul ’23

Is there anyone who found a solution for this? I cannot make it work.

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aymanu OP
Aug ’23

ios 17 now support live photo as wallpaper, but you can't use live photo from old ios version - you can take a new live photo from your iphone running ios 17 and apply them as a live wallpaper

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ItsElijah1525 OP
Sep ’23

Same thing is currently happening aswell...

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athensboy OP
Sep ’23

I just got off of the phone with support and they said that old photos are not compatible, even ones that were compatible with iOS 15. Nothing I'm seeing seems to be able to be worked around. Of course, AppleCare had no idea why because they're not engineering, but what away to break a nice feature so that they could separate the subject's head and put it in front of the time. <rolleyes>

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Applebee46 OP
Sep ’23

Yeah! I’m really sad we can’t change our wallpaper, I would like have something that aren’t my photos or the not too good to eyes wallpapers that IPhone gives you. I don’t want place a planet or a plain color or emojis! I want to be able to personalize it as I like! Is hard to ask for just a live wallpaper? :,)

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bostonbanana OP
Sep ’23

They should just put the old live wallpaper back and not this motion wall paper nonsense.

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bostonbanana OP
Oct ’23

VideoToLive just updated. You can make custom Live Wallpaper.

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OnePXL OP
Jun ’24

I just bought a subscription in an app for £5 just so I could gain access to live wallpapers to put on my Lock Screen. And none of them work 🤦‍♀️

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Afshanadbi OP
2w

I found a solution. What you wanna do is, get the video you want or the Live Photo. Download the app called ‘intolive’ …. Click live wallpaper, now select the video/live photo, and it’ll ask you to trim it down and then it will export as live wallpaper compatible with ios 18. Hope this helps!

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RyderCragie OP
5d

You have to set the aspect ratio to “wallpaper” in the Photos app and then it works.

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