GoKawiiliOS 27 continues Apple’s trend of giving you more control over the design of your iPhone’s Lock Screen. This year, there are new customization options, wallpaper settings, and more.
Extend wallpapers
iOS 27 brings new Apple Intelligence editing features to the Photos app. This includes a revamped version of Clean Up, as well as a Reframe. Another new option is Extend, which intelligently expands your image so you can adjust its aspect ratio, straighten horizons, or just add more space around the edges.
As seen above, the Extend feature also comes to the Lock Screen in iOS 27. If a photo doesn’t match your iPhone’s aspect ratio or isn’t cropped quite right for a wallpaper, iOS 27 will automatically suggest using Extend to fix it.
Extend will use AI to generate additional image content around the edges, so you have more flexibility when setting a picture as your iPhone’s wallpaper.
Generate your own wallpapers
iOS 27 brings big improvements to Image Playground, which is Apple’s app that lets you generate images using artificial intelligence. The changes to Image Playground also come to your iPhone’s Lock Screen. Now, you can generate wallpapers using Image Playground right from the wallpaper picker in Settings or on the Lock Screen itself.
In the wallpaper picker, you’ll see a new “Image Playground” option. The feature will create stylized versions of images from your Photos library, such as “Retro Illustration” and “Animation.”
You can also create a custom wallpaper from scratch just by describing what you want in natural language.
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