If you are fed up with the original wallpapers on your Samsung Galaxy S8 and want to put some glitter in your life, live wallpapers are a tempting alternative. You may have heard of this kind of wallpaper lately, but it has actually been around for several years. However, few people take advantage of it, although there are now very good quality wallpapers.
We will precisely, today, teach you, today how to set live wallpapers on your Samsung Galaxy S8? To do this, first of all, we are going to explain to you how and what is the point of live wallpapers on your phone, and, finally, the different ways to install live wallpapers on your Samsung Galaxy S8.
What is the point of live wallpapers on Samsung Galaxy S8?
What is an animated wallpaper? You have certainly already put photos of your loved ones as background images on your Samsung Galaxy S8, despite everything you have surely never heard of live wallpapers! These are sometimes 3D images that will be animated, so you will have the option of having a dynamic background. There are thousands of them, you can find free or paid ones on the web.
Quite nice and allowing you to personalize your Samsung Galaxy S8 as much as possible, these wallpapers can be either GIFs or classic live wallpapers. You will therefore have a multitude of choices. Be careful though, live wallpapers consume a lot of battery, therefore do not hesitate to check the battery status of your Samsung Galaxy S8.
How to configure live wallpapers on Samsung Galaxy S8?
We now move on to the practical part of this guide, we will explain how to set an animated GIF background on your Samsung Galaxy S8. Several alternatives exist, we reveal them all to you to decide which one suits you the most or is adapted to your version of Android.
Configure a "Live Wallpaper" background directly from the home of your Samsung Galaxy S8
First solution that you can achieve, you can change the wallpaper of the home page of your Samsung Galaxy S8, without going to the settings, quite simply from the home page of your phone. To do this, nothing could be simpler, follow the instructions below:
- Unlock your Samsung Galaxy S8
- Leave your finger pressed on an empty area of one of your home screens
- Click on the "Wallpaper" menu
- Choose if you want set an animated wallpaper for the home or lock screen of your Samsung Galaxy S8
- You will only have to choose between your "Gallery" and the wallpapers already downloaded the one you want, the live wallpapers are easily identifiable, some are referred to as "Dynamic wallpaper"
Configure an animated wallpaper on your Samsung Galaxy S8 through settings
If you never manage to implement the method from the home page of your Samsung Galaxy S8, fear not, you can do exactly the same by going through the settings of your phone. To do this, follow the instructions below:
- Go to the "Settings" of your phone
- Press the "Wallpaper" menu
- Apply the same procedure as explained in the previous part to choose the dynamic wallpaper that corresponds to your Samsung Galaxy S8
The best live wallpaper apps for a Samsung Galaxy S8
If ever, the choice of animated wallpapers pre-downloaded on your Samsung Galaxy S8 does not suit you (it is often limited), you should know that there are free applications for the catalog of wallpapers, animated or no, free or not, thanks to which you will undoubtedly find your happiness. Instead of searching the web for wallpapers that may not match your phone, we strongly recommend that you go through those apps that do the job for you. We have decided to present you the procedure to follow with the application M :
- Download and install the app on your Samsung Galaxy S8
- Accept authorization requests for your storage and photos
- You can either choose the HD live wallpaper that suits you or decide to have a random rotation of the wallpaper, it will be up to you to determine the frequency of change. An alternative that we find really practical so as not to be left behind
There are a good number of applications that manage live wallpapers, however, often an application corresponds to a single live wallpaper, or to a specific theme, therefore do not hesitate to search for the application that suits you the most.
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