Year progress wallpaper

How to set it as your wallpaper

1. Pick a style, a colour and your iPhone model, then tap Save image. On an iPhone, choose Save Image in the share sheet to put it in Photos.
2. Open Settings, tap Wallpaper, then Add New Wallpaper, and choose Photos.
3. Pick the image, check that the clock sits above the grid, tap Add and choose Set as Wallpaper Pair, or customise the Home Screen separately.

The image is made at your iPhone’s exact screen size, so iOS does not need to zoom or crop it. The grid starts below the clock and stops above the torch and camera buttons. Everything is drawn in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

What the wallpaper shows

Dots draws one dot per day of the year, 365 or 366, with the days that have gone faded and today in your colour. Months draws a bar for each month, filled with the days still ahead. Ring draws the part of the year that is left as a ring around the year. With text on, the wallpaper also shows the days left, or the percentage left for a year that has not started yet.

Why a saved image goes out of date

A wallpaper is a picture, and iOS does not let a website or an app change it on its own. An image saved today still shows today tomorrow. You can come back and make a new one every few days, or let your iPhone do it.

Left Wallpaper draws a fresh image every day: the year as a grid with the days left, your life in weeks, this month, or a countdown to a date. A Shortcuts automation sets it as your Lock Screen each night, so it is always current. It is free, and the setup takes a few minutes once. The wallpaper shortcut guide has the steps, and the best countdown wallpaper apps compares the options.

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Prefer a widget?

If you would rather keep your own photo as the wallpaper, Left’s free Year widget puts the same grid on the Lock Screen or Home Screen and updates by itself. See the year progress widget, or work out the numbers with the percentage of the year calculator.

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