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tobieeee

Jan 31, 2022 @ 12:39pm

does it work on iphone se

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Rhy

Jan 31, 2022 @ 12:47pm

No. iOS has no support for live wallpapers due to being a restrictive OS. Hence there is no IOS version.
If Apple ever adds support for this they will look into it.

Last edited by Rhy; Jan 31, 2022 @ 12:48pm

Tulip

Aug 14, 2022 @ 4:42am

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/live-achtergronden-voor-mij/id1069361548
Sorry to necromance this but this app already exists for more than 2 years. Are you guys sure you can’t convert the wallpapers from wallpaper engine to work with IOS?

Last edited by Tulip; Aug 14, 2022 @ 4:43am

Tim [developer] Aug 14, 2022 @ 4:46am

Yes, it's not in any way comparable. iOS supports Apple's "Live Photos" for wallpapers but that has three major issues:

1. They are limited to a small number of frames (which means they are very short)
2. They are not live-calculated wallpapers like what you can find on Wallpaper Engine. Wallpaper Engine is more like a video game engine that dynamically calculates the wallpaper which is how you can get dynamic elements in them
3. Apple's "Live Photos" are not documented at all and it's nearly impossible to generate them through Windows. So we would have to reverse-engineer them and all of this to generate short loops of wallpapers that last a few seconds instead. It would be an insane amount of work and the result would be utterly disappointing at best.

tobieeee

Aug 14, 2022 @ 1:36pm

Originally posted by Tim:
Yes, it's not in any way comparable. iOS supports Apple's "Live Photos" for wallpapers but that has three major issues:

1. They are limited to a small number of frames (which means they are very short)
2. They are not live-calculated wallpapers like what you can find on Wallpaper Engine. Wallpaper Engine is more like a video game engine that dynamically calculates the wallpaper which is how you can get dynamic elements in them
3. Apple's "Live Photos" are not documented at all and it's nearly impossible to generate them through Windows. So we would have to reverse-engineer them and all of this to generate short loops of wallpapers that last a few seconds instead. It would be an insane amount of work and the result would be utterly disappointing at best.

dont you have to hold down on the lock screen for it to play too?