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Latest iOS 9 beta adds beautiful, trippy new wallpapers to show off Retina displays

Although early beta releases of iOS 9 featured relatively little new eye candy for potential upgraders, today’s release of iOS 9 beta 5 includes a welcome surprise: a large collection of colorful new wallpapers. The images range from colorful desert dunes to several different colors of feathers, plants, planets, and multi-colored explosions. They’re all packed with detail, showing off the photorealistic rendering abilities and vivid color palettes of Retina displays. Many (but not all) of iOS 8’s wallpaper images have been removed from the collection, and the blue/green tidal wave image originally included with iOS 9 betas has disappeared.

A gallery with some of the new wallpapers is below…

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  1. canyouspellmyname - 9 years ago

    can you share some of these with the rest of us without access to the beta?

  2. HooijmansNL - 9 years ago

    So, where can I download them? ;-)

  3. savichmichael - 9 years ago

    Weird they removed the waves. What is the new default? Also, can anybody get a list of the wallpapers removed?

    • RP - 9 years ago

      I love the tide wallpaper. Hopefully they bring it back. I had the flower on lock screen and the tide as my home screen. Looked very nice.

      • RP - 9 years ago

        nice! It let me keep my waves and flower after the update

    • applegetridofsimandjack - 9 years ago

      The new default is a closeup photo of Tim Cook.
      LoL just imagine.

  4. I like these. I usually go with a darker Lock Screen as I can use it at night or early morning without annoying anyone.

  5. galley99 - 9 years ago

    I use the one with multi-color abstract shapes. Is that one still there?

  6. Franco (@frngr) - 9 years ago

    Lots of black. Will we see an AMOLED screen on the next iPhone?

  7. Frank DeRosa Jr. - 9 years ago

    I like the way the broke out the wallpaper and battery in the main settings screen, I wish though they would do that for Keyboard as well. With entering shortcuts and installing third party keyboards I’m in that screen most out of all the settings.

  8. tinman8443 - 9 years ago

    This may not be new to this specific version, but I don’t remember being offered this before. http://imgur.com/UPkpGWM
    The option to install an OS update late in the night.

  9. jupuddles - 9 years ago

    It would be nice if these moved. Like if they made more dynamic wallpapers. I remember when they added the 2 with the bookeh effect on iOS 7 and that was super awesome, but very limited. I have come to really like the motion faces on the watch, it could be really nice to have that extended to the phone more.

  10. Chris Cooper (@clcooper) - 9 years ago

    This article is for the dev version, is this the version likely to be released via a PB in the next week or so? Thank you and btw, really digging the new look/layout of the site. Very sharp and modern looking.

  11. These look great. But I want to know when we are going to get the option to shuffle our wallpapers like we can on Mac OS X and Windows. I know battery would take a little hit but I am willing to accept that. And for those who don’t like the hit can just not use it.

  12. I wonder why we can’t add out own photos to the wallpaper section, I think that would be a great option.