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Apple’s new Pride Luminance wallpaper looks dazzling on your iPhone or iPad. You can go with preset configurations, sure, but you can also use whatever color combos you like.
Picking two different shades of green, for instance, gives your phone a vivid, verdant look. Or you could go with a red, white and blue color scheme to get yourself pumped for the United States’ upcoming semiquincentennial.
You can pick up to 12 colors — let your imagination run wild!
Whatever colors you decide on, the shaded bands run from the top to the bottom of the iPhone’s Lock Screen and shimmer when you slide to unlock the device. The effect looks stunning. (You can download a matching Apple Watch face, too.)
As Cult of Mac writer D. Griffin Jones says in his how-to, “This is easily the best Pride wallpaper Apple has produced yet — in fact, it’s a great wallpaper, period.”
Find out how to add Luminance to your devices, and how to tweak the colors to your heart’s desire, in his handy guide.
Also in today’s newsletter:
It sounds like the iPhone’s Camera app is getting a major upgrade in iOS 27.
watchOS 26.5, which you need to get that Pride Luminance watch face, also squashes a very particular set of bugs.
I’ve heard of smart locks with fingerprint readers, but this one unlocks with a touchless scan of the veins in your palm!
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