

Click the … icon in the bottom right and choose Don't Feature Photo. Then, tap through until you get to the picture you want to remove from the stack. When you see an image on your lock screen that you’d rather not see again, long press your wallpaper and click Customize. Luckily, you can train Photo Shuffle to pick better images. Fun fact, when you take thousands of pictures of someone on burst mode and you never delete anything, you get a lot of weird shots. I mean, they’re fine, but no).īut that still didn't give me the optimal pictures I was hoping for. Also, in Photo Shuffle, I made sure only my immediate family was selected to show up on my lock screen (for some reason, iOS 16 though I wanted pics of my kids’ friends. First, I went into Photos, clicked on People, and merged those errant childhood extras with the kid they belonged to (just drag and drop onto the main person). However, if you're staring at your lock screen thinking "these pictures kind of suck," don't panic! There's plenty you can do to optimize the images that show up in Photo Shuffle.ĭuring setup, if you're using the People category, click Choose to make sure the right people are selected or that you don't need to do some maintenance in Photos to its People category.įor instance, Photos had baby and toddler pictures of both my kids listed as completely separate people. Just like that, you’ve got an ever-changing gallery of your best images on your lock screen. Select it, choose the categories of pictures you'd like iOS 16 to feature on your lock screen, and click Done.

Just under Suggested Photos is Photo Shuffle. If you don't like the featured pics, don't worry, you'll have a couple of ways to optimize things in a bit. While you can pick one of these as a static wallpaper, you can also use this section as a quick preview to see the kind of pictures iOS 16 has selected from your Photos library as wallpaper-worthy. As you scroll down, you'll see Suggested Photos.
