Change Lock Screen and Home Screen Wallpaper (Xiaomi Phones)

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This post includes a step-by-step guide for change Xiaomi phone’s lock screen or home screen wallpaper.

How to change wallpaper in Xiaomi phone quick overview:

You can set wallpaper for lock screen, home screen or for both. From any mobile photo’s “Set as wallpaper” option or from the phone’s “Wallpaper” settings, you can change and set wallpaper for your phone screens. When you tap the “apply” option for set wallpaper, the process will ask for screen selection. You can choose screens and set wallpaper.

Let’s check out lock screen and home screen wallpaper change process in detail.

Change Lock Screen and Home Screen Wallpaper (Xiaomi Phones):

How to set wallpaper for Xiaomi phone lock screen?

  1. Open Wallpaper option from phone settings app.
  2. Choose wallpaper from available wallpapers.
  3. Open the wallpaper and tap on the “Apply” option.
  4. Next, choose the “Set as Lock screen” option from popup.
  5. Now, Your selected wallpaper is set on the lock screen.

How to set wallpaper for Xiaomi phone home screen?

  1. Open Wallpaper option from phone settings app.
  2. Choose wallpaper from available wallpapers.
  3. Open the wallpaper and tap on the “Apply” option.
  4. Next, choose the “Set as Home screen” option from popup.
  5. Now, Your selected wallpaper is set on the home screen.

How to set the camera photo as wallpaper from Xiaomi phone gallery?

  1. Open your camera photo from the phone’s Gallery app.
  2. Tap on the three dot option from the bottom bar.
  3. Now, from popup choose “Set as wallpaper”.
  4. Next, choose the screen name where you want to set the photo as wallpaper.

Here, in the home screen or lock screen selection popup, you will also find the “both” option. If you choose the “both” option, then your photo or wallpaper will set for both screens.

How to set a live wallpaper on the screen of a Xiaomi MIUI phone?

Here live wallpaper means set your video file as your phone wallpaper. Xiaomi MIUI gives “Set video wallpaper” option for video files. You can set video as your lock screen and home screen live wallpaper by this video wallpaper option.

Can I set a Gif file as wallpaper in a Xiaomi MIUI phone? No, when you check image options for Gif files on Xiaomi phones, it will not show the set as a wallpaper option. It means you can not set the Gif file as wallpaper in MIUI phones.

Set video file as Wallpaper on the Xiaomi MIUI phone screens:

  1. Open your video file from the phone’s Gallery app.
  2. Tap on the three dot option from the bottom bar.
  3. Now, from popup choose “Set video wallpaper”.
  4. Next, choose the screen name where you want to set the photo as wallpaper.

That’s it,

Hope you found the Xiaomi phone wallpaper guide helpful.