Motion Wall: Video Wallpaper

Set your own clip as a video live wallpaper — or a photo, or a generated pattern. Motion Wall trims and frames it, keeps it set after a restart and shows you that it is really running on your home screen. ▶ STAYS SET AFTER A RESTART • Your phone starts the wallpaper again after a restart, and Motion Wall reads its saved setup every time it starts — the same clip, trim, framing and speed come back. • While the clip gets ready, or if the phone can't decode it, your still frame is shown instead of a black screen, and it retries after 2, 10 and 60 seconds. ▶ SEE THAT IT REALLY RUNS • Tap Set wallpaper and confirm in the system preview. Back in the app, it asks the phone what is set and shows the result: "Set on home screen · drawing", how many frames it drew and the screen size. • The "Now on your phone" card on the main screen keeps checking: Home ✓, the lock-screen state, frames drawn and how long ago. • If something is wrong, the card names it — another wallpaper is set, Motion Wall isn't set, the clip can't be decoded (with codec and size) or the file is missing — with a Fix button. • Already your wallpaper? A new wall switches in place, without the system preview. ▶ TRIM, FIT AND SPEED • Trim 1 to 60 seconds with two handles on a filmstrip. • See the length and how often it repeats, for example "5.5 s · repeats every 3.7 s". • Speed: 0.5×, 0.75×, 1×, 1.25×, 1.5× or 2×. • Blend loop seam: off, 0.3, 0.5 or 1 second, so the end fades into the first frame. • Fill, Fit, Stretch or Original. In Fill, drag to choose the part you see and pinch to zoom up to 4×. Fit adds bars in one of 5 colors; Original shows 1 video pixel per screen pixel. • The preview has your wallpaper's shape, with a clock and icon guide to frame around. ▶ PHOTOS AND PATTERN • Make a photo move: slow zoom (up to 8% and back every 12 seconds), a sideways pan, or keep it still. • No clip at hand? Try the generated pattern — it moves on its own and uses no file. • Keep up to 50 walls in My walls, each tile with its length, speed and size in MB. Deleting has a 5-second Undo. ▶ EASY ON THE BATTERY • It plays while your home screen is visible, pauses when it's hidden and releases the video after 30 seconds. • Turn on "Still image in battery saver" to show a still while battery saver is on. ▶ GOOD TO KNOW • The system preview decides whether the wallpaper goes on the home screen or on home and lock screen; apps can't choose. Some lock screens don't show live wallpapers — you can put a still frame on the lock screen instead. • The lock-screen state can be read on system version 14 and later; on older versions the card shows "unknown". • Clips play without sound. Source videos up to 2 GB, the part you keep up to 300 MB. HDR clips are shown in standard range; GIFs use their first frame. • If your phone has no decoder for a clip, the app tells you when you pick it. • Your videos and photos are processed on your phone and stored in the app; the app doesn't upload them. Walls aren't included in backups. If you uninstall the app, your phone returns to its default wallpaper. • Ads: a banner on the main screen, and sometimes a full-screen ad after you tap Done on a wallpaper that was set. Ads never appear in the editor.

"Set wallpaper" now checks which live-wallpaper screens your phone has, including one some phones hide, and opens only a screen that can set a moving wallpaper. It no longer drops you in the still-photo wallpaper app, where nothing could be applied. If no live-wallpaper picker opens, a card says so and lets you try again or choose "Set as still image" (one frame on your home and lock screen; it doesn't move). The lock line on the result card now explains what it means.