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Pixel phones could soon let you set different live wallpapers on home and lock screens
December’s Pixel Feature Drop could make our dreams come true
Wallpapers play a big role in helping you personalize your Android phone, and that’s especially true since the advent of Material You dynamic theming, which colorizes app interfaces and icons using colors pulled from your wallpaper. That’s part of the reason Android updates often include new wallpapers. However, Android doesn’t yet let you set one live wallpaper as your lock screen, and another as your home screen background. We now have a ballpark estimate of when this feature could make its way to Android, at least on Pixel phones.
Whenever Google introduces some new phones, like it did with last year's Pixel 7 and 7 Pro, we expect a certain amount of stuff that's going to be at least momentarily exclusive to this latest generation, like with Photo Unblur. Pixel phones don't only get tools like that, though, and also include exclusive wallpapers — like the Feathers collection or the Live Bloom wallpapers. After sitting out a couple recent releases, Google is now bringing back one live wallpaper that might just ring a bell.
Google's Pixel live wallpapers are blossoming with four new additions
They replace the Pixel 4-exclusive Pokémon live wallpapers
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Google’s Pixel phones are the first to receive Android updates and regularly get first dibs on new software features through monthly feature drops. December’s feature drop is already here, packing a few nifty improvements along with a few new wallpapers and much-awaited features like clear calling to the Pixel 7 series. However, a few more recent additions to the wallpaper selection on new and older Pixel phones might fly under the radar.
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Pixel 6 live wallpapers show off Google's green thumb
Some floral arrangements for your next smartphone
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These ROG Phone 5s live wallpapers won't make your Pixel a gaming phone
But they will make your launcher look pretty
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