The wallpaper image appears behind all your app icons so you have something interesting to look at rather than just a blank screen. To customize the appearance of your wallpaper, you can adjust the brightness or just choose a new image altogether.
Adjusting the Wallpaper Brightness
The wallpaper on your iPad is meant to provide an interesting image to look at, but if it seems too light or too dark, you can always modify this brightness by following these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap Brightness & Wallpaper. The Brightness & Wallpaper settings screen appears.
3. Drag the Auto-Brightness slider left or right.
4. (Optional) Tap the Auto-Brightness on/off switch. When the Auto-Brightness switch reads ON, your iPad will adjust the brightness of the screen based on the surrounding lighting conditions.
5. Press the Home button. The Home screen appears.
Changing the Wallpaper
If you want to choose a different wallpaper image for your iPad, you can either pick one of the wallpaper images included with your iPad or use a picture that you've already transferred from your computer to your iPad.
To change the wallpaper image, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap Brightness & Wallpaper. The Brightness & Wallpaper settings screen appears.
3. Tap anywhere inside the curved rectangle under the Wallpaper group. The screen displays a Wallpaper button along with a list of photo albums currently stored in your Photos app.
4. Tap Wallpaper (to choose from an image included on your iPad), or tap a photo album that you've transferred from your computer to your iPad. Thumbnail images of your available pictures appear.
5. Tap the image you want to use as your wallpaper. Your iPad shows what your chosen image looks like and displays three buttons (Set Lock Screen, Set Home Screen, and Set Both) in the upper-right corner.
Note: The Lock screen is the image that appears when your iPad first turns on and requires that you drag a slider across the screen to access your iPad.
The Home screen is the image that appears behind all your apps.
6. Tap Set Lock Screen, Set Lock Home Screen, or Set Both. (You can also tap Cancel if you change your mind.) Your chosen image now appears as the wallpaper on your Lock screen and/or your Home screen, depending on which option you chose in the previous step.
7. Press the Home button. The Home screen appears.
Additional Ideas for Customizing Your Home Screen
You'll spend most of your time looking at your Home screen so you might as well customize it so you'll enjoy looking at it. Group together your most commonly used apps on the Home screen, and set your favorite image as your wallpaper.
Since you can choose your own wallpaper images, put pictures of animals, landscapes, artwork, or people on your iPad. If you're comfortable with creating graphic images and transferring them to your iPad, turn your daily or weekly to-do list into a graphic image and then make it your wallpaper. Every time you turn on your iPad, you'll see your tasks and goals. By putting your own images on your iPad, you can truly customize its appearance so nobody will ever mistake your iPad for their own.
Adjusting the Wallpaper Brightness
The wallpaper on your iPad is meant to provide an interesting image to look at, but if it seems too light or too dark, you can always modify this brightness by following these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap Brightness & Wallpaper. The Brightness & Wallpaper settings screen appears.
3. Drag the Auto-Brightness slider left or right.
4. (Optional) Tap the Auto-Brightness on/off switch. When the Auto-Brightness switch reads ON, your iPad will adjust the brightness of the screen based on the surrounding lighting conditions.
5. Press the Home button. The Home screen appears.
Changing the Wallpaper
If you want to choose a different wallpaper image for your iPad, you can either pick one of the wallpaper images included with your iPad or use a picture that you've already transferred from your computer to your iPad.
To change the wallpaper image, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap Brightness & Wallpaper. The Brightness & Wallpaper settings screen appears.
3. Tap anywhere inside the curved rectangle under the Wallpaper group. The screen displays a Wallpaper button along with a list of photo albums currently stored in your Photos app.
4. Tap Wallpaper (to choose from an image included on your iPad), or tap a photo album that you've transferred from your computer to your iPad. Thumbnail images of your available pictures appear.
5. Tap the image you want to use as your wallpaper. Your iPad shows what your chosen image looks like and displays three buttons (Set Lock Screen, Set Home Screen, and Set Both) in the upper-right corner.
Note: The Lock screen is the image that appears when your iPad first turns on and requires that you drag a slider across the screen to access your iPad.
The Home screen is the image that appears behind all your apps.
6. Tap Set Lock Screen, Set Lock Home Screen, or Set Both. (You can also tap Cancel if you change your mind.) Your chosen image now appears as the wallpaper on your Lock screen and/or your Home screen, depending on which option you chose in the previous step.
7. Press the Home button. The Home screen appears.
Additional Ideas for Customizing Your Home Screen
You'll spend most of your time looking at your Home screen so you might as well customize it so you'll enjoy looking at it. Group together your most commonly used apps on the Home screen, and set your favorite image as your wallpaper.
Since you can choose your own wallpaper images, put pictures of animals, landscapes, artwork, or people on your iPad. If you're comfortable with creating graphic images and transferring them to your iPad, turn your daily or weekly to-do list into a graphic image and then make it your wallpaper. Every time you turn on your iPad, you'll see your tasks and goals. By putting your own images on your iPad, you can truly customize its appearance so nobody will ever mistake your iPad for their own.
