If you are fed up with stock wallpapers on your Samsung Galaxy A42 and want to put some glitter in your life, live wallpaper is an interesting solution. You may have heard of this type of wallpaper lately, but they have actually been around for many months. Only, few people take advantage of it while there are now very good quality wallpapers.
We will precisely, in this guide, teach you, in this guide how to set live wallpapers on your Samsung Galaxy A42? In this context, to begin with, we will explain to you how and what is the purpose of animated wallpapers on your mobile phone, and, finally, the different ways to configure an animated wallpaper on your Samsung Galaxy A42 .
What is the point of live wallpapers on Samsung Galaxy A42?
What is an animated wallpaper? You have probably already put photos of your loved ones in the background image on your Samsung Galaxy A42, despite everything you have probably never heard of animated wallpapers! These are sometimes 3D images that will integrate an animation, you will suddenly have the ability to have a dynamic background. There are thousands of them, you can find free or paid ones on the web.
Quite pleasant and allowing you to personalize your Samsung Galaxy A42 as much as possible, these wallpapers can be either GIFs or classic animated wallpapers. You will therefore have a multitude of choices. Be careful though, live wallpapers consume a lot of battery, do not hesitate to check the battery status of your Samsung Galaxy A42.
How to configure live wallpapers on Samsung Galaxy A42?
We now move on to the practical part of this article, we will explain how to set an animated GIF background on your Samsung Galaxy A42. Several possibilities can be applied, we present them all to you to decide which one suits you best or is adapted to your version of Android.
Define a “Live Wallpaper” background directly from the home of your Samsung Galaxy A42
First technique at your disposal, you can change the wallpaper of the home page of your Samsung Galaxy A42, without going to the settings, very easily from the home page of your mobile phone. In this context, nothing could be simpler, follow the instructions here:
- Unlock your Samsung Galaxy A42
- Leave your finger pressed on an empty area of one of your home screens
- Click on the "Wallpaper" menu
- Select if you want set an animated wallpaper for the home page or the lock screen of your Samsung Galaxy A42
- You will only have to choose between your "Gallery" and the wallpapers already downloaded the one you want, the live wallpapers are easily recognizable, many of them are referred to as "Dynamic wallpaper"
Set live wallpapers on Samsung Galaxy A42 via settings
In the event that you are unable to follow the procedure via the home page of your Samsung Galaxy A42, don't worry, you can do exactly the same by going through the settings of your mobile phone. In this context, follow the instructions below:
- Go to the "Settings" of your mobile phone
- Click on the "Wallpaper" menu
- Follow the same procedure as that explained in the previous part to choose the dynamic wallpaper that will suit your Samsung Galaxy A42
The best live wallpaper applications for a Samsung Galaxy A42
In the event that the choice of live wallpapers pre-downloaded on your Samsung Galaxy A42 does not satisfy you (it is regularly limited), be aware that there are free wallpaper catalog applications, animated or not, free or not, thanks to which you will undoubtedly find your happiness. Rather than looking for wallpapers not necessarily suitable for your smartphone on the web, we strongly advise you to go through these apps that do the work for you. We have decided to show you the procedure to follow with the application M :
- Download and install the application on your Samsung Galaxy A42
- Accept authorization requests for your storage and photos
- You can either choose the HD animated wallpaper that suits you or choose to have a random rotation of the wallpaper, it will be up to you to set the frequency of change. A solution that we find really practical so as not to let go of your background
There are many applications that manage animated wallpapers, however, regularly an application corresponds to a single animated wallpaper, or to a specific theme, so do not hesitate to look for the application that suits you most.
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