Wallpaper on iOS 8

Question

Is There a way to change the iPhone Wallpaper without settings in the new iOS 8? I need to change programmatically the wallpaper of the user. I know that other iOS doesn't allow...

if not, what are my options?

thanks

Answer 1

You can change the Springboard background but you can't publish it on the Appstore, only on an non-official store.

This way is blocked by Apple, you can't interact with it. But if you want to know how, take a look below :

Wallpapers can be overwritten at:

Objective-C:

NSString *homePath1 = @"/private/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/HomeBackground.jpg";
NSString *homePath2 = @"/private/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/HomeBackgroundPortrait.jpg";
NSString *lockPath1 = @"/private/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/LockBackground.jpg";
NSString *lockPath2 = @"/private/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/LockBackgroundPortrait.jpg";

Swift:

let HomePath = "/private/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/HomeBackground.jpg"
let HomePathPortrait = "/private/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/HomeBackgroundPortrait.jpg"
let LockPath = "/private/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/LockBackground.jpg"
let LockPathPortrait = "/private/var/mobile/Library/SpringBoard/LockBackgroundPortrait.jpg"

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The official way to do that is adding your image on the user Photo Library requesting it to put in to background.