If you are ever tired of the stock wallpapers on your Sony Xperia 5 IV and want to diversify your daily life, live wallpaper is an attractive alternative. You may have heard of this kind of wallpaper recently, but they have actually been around for several years. 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 wallpaper on your Sony Xperia 5 IV? To do this, first of all, we will teach you how live wallpapers work and what is the purpose of live wallpapers on your smartphone, and, finally, the different ways to put live wallpapers on your Sony Xperia 5IV.
What is the point of an animated wallpaper on Sony Xperia 5 IV?
What is an animated wallpaper? You've probably already put photos of your loved ones as the background image on your Sony Xperia 5 IV, but you've probably never heard of animated wallpapers! These are sometimes 3D images that will integrate an animation, so you will have the ability to have 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 Sony Xperia 5 IV as much as possible, these wallpapers can be either GIFs or classic animated wallpapers. You will therefore have a lot of choice. Be careful however, live wallpapers consume a lot of battery, do not hesitate to check the battery status of your Sony Xperia 5 IV.
How to set an animated wallpaper on a Sony Xperia 5 IV?
We now move on to the practical part of this article, we will teach you how to set up an animated GIF background on your Sony Xperia 5 IV. Several methods exist, we reveal them all to you to see which one suits you the most or is compatible with your version of Android.
Set up a "Live Wallpaper" background directly from the home page of your Sony Xperia 5 IV
First technique that you can perform, you can change the wallpaper of the home page of your Sony Xperia 5 IV, without going to the settings, very easily from the home page of your smartphone. To do this, nothing could be easier, follow the instructions below:
- Unlock your Sony Xperia 5 IV
- Leave your finger pressed on an empty area of one of your home screens
- Click on the "Wallpaper" menu
- Select if you want set live wallpaper for home or lock screen on your Sony Xperia 5 IV
- 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"
Set up an animated wallpaper on your Sony Xperia 5 IV through the settings
If ever you are unable to follow the manipulation by the home page of your Sony Xperia 5 IV, do not worry, you can accomplish exactly the same by going through the settings of your smartphone. To do this, follow the instructions below:
- Access the "Settings" of your smartphone
- Click on the "Wallpaper" menu
- Apply the same technique as that described in the previous part to choose the dynamic wallpaper that will suit your Sony Xperia 5 IV
The best live wallpaper apps for a Sony Xperia 5 IV
If ever, the choice of animated wallpapers pre-downloaded on your Sony Xperia 5 IV does not please you (it is regularly limited), you should know that there are free wallpaper catalog applications, animated or not, free or not, through which you will undoubtedly find what you are looking for. Instead of searching the web for wallpapers not specifically suited to your phone, 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 Sony Xperia 5 IV
- Accept authorization requests for your storage and photos
- You can either choose the HD live wallpaper you like or choose to have a random rotation of the wallpaper, it will be up to you to define the frequency of change. A solution that we find absolutely practical so as not to be left behind
There are a multitude of applications that manage animated wallpapers, despite everything, regularly an application corresponds to a single animated wallpaper, or to a specific theme, so do not hesitate to look for the application which suits you the most.
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