Keynote overApple Event · Wednesday 9 September · 10:00 PT
What Apple didn't tell you at the eventiPhone 18 supports wallpapers that actually move.
Ninety minutes on the cameras. Not ten seconds on the screen you unlock ninety times a day. Every iPhone since the 13 can already play a moving lock screen — Apple just never made it easy to find one worth setting.
2Live is 1,200+ of them. 4K, rendered for the exact panel, free to start.
Not an Apple announcement — a joke about one. Live Photo lock screens have shipped since iOS 16. 2Live is an independent app and is not affiliated with Apple Inc.
A real 2Live lock screen, playing.
iPhone Duo · iPhone 18 Pro wallpapers
iPhone Duo wallpaper, on the screens Apple just announced
A 2Live watercolor on Apple's first foldable: the 5.4-inch cover screen (1398×2034) and the 7.6-inch inner display (1878×2670), folded and unfolded. The same library is rendered at the iPhone 18 Pro's exact 1206×2622 and fills the 18 Pro Max's 1320×2868 edge to edge — free to start on iOS 27.
The tech specs nobody reads out
Every row on the left is shipping behaviour, not a promise — on the new iPhone, and on the one already in your pocket.
Wallpapers for the phones announced this week
Straight off Apple's tech-specs pages — every number below is the real one, including the two on the Duo that are unlike any iPhone before it.
iOS 27
iPhone Duo
1878×2670 · 7.6" — plus a 1398×2034 cover screen
See the wallpapersiOS 27
iPhone 18 Pro Max
1320×2868 · 6.9"
See the wallpapersiOS 27
iPhone 18 Pro
1206×2622 · 6.3"
See the wallpapersThe one that changes the maths
iPhone Duo unfolds to 1878×2670
Every iPhone before it took the same tall rectangle. The Duo's 7.6" inner panel is ≈12.8:9 — far squarer — and the 5.4" cover screen is 1398×2034. A wallpaper cut for an 18 Pro has to be scaled to the Duo's width on either one, which trims about a third off the top and bottom — so the size you need is genuinely new.
iPhone Duo wallpaper sizesNot upgrading? It already works on the phone you have.
A moving lock screen is not a new-phone feature. Pick your model for the exact wallpaper size and the two-tap way to set it.
Get the app
Free on the App Store and Google Play. No account to browse.
Pick one that moves
1,200+ 4K live wallpapers — aurora, ocean, sakura, space, true-black AMOLED.
Set it as your lock screen
Saved as a Live Photo on iPhone, set directly on Android. Press and hold to watch it play.
Want to watch a few first? See them actually moving — no install needed.
Straight answers
Did Apple announce live wallpapers at the event?
No — and this page isn't claiming they did. Live Photo lock screens have shipped on iPhone since iOS 16; Apple has simply never given them stage time. The joke is the silence, not a feature.
Will 2Live wallpapers fit the iPhone 18?
The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, exactly — and the iPhone 17, 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max you may already own. Every 2Live wallpaper is rendered at 1206×2622, the exact panel the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro use and the iPhone 18 Pro keeps, and the 17 Pro Max and 18 Pro Max's 1320×2868 is the same shape. The foldable iPhone Duo is the exception: its screens are far squarer (1878×2670 inside, 1398×2034 on the cover), so today's art trims the top and bottom there. Apple did not announce a non-Pro iPhone 18.
Do I need a new iPhone for this?
No. Every iPhone since the iPhone 13 can play a moving lock screen, and 2Live works on all of them — plus Galaxy, Pixel and the rest of Android.
Is it free?
The app is free on the App Store and Google Play, with a rotating free selection and daily credit refills. The full 4K live catalog unlocks with credits or premium.
Your lock screen deserves more than a slide nobody wrote