Help and frequently asked questions

No. Anyone can browse and download wallpapers without an account.

With an account (create an account), you can keep favorites and collections, follow artists and tags, rate and comment on wallpapers, and submit your own.

Pick the size in the menu next to each wallpaper, then download it. The sizes are grouped by screen, such as widescreen, iPhone or iPad.

When the wallpaper comes in your screen’s size, or very close to it, that size is already chosen for you (this needs JavaScript).

On a list of wallpapers, “Match my screen” shows the ones that come in your screen’s size or shape.

Yes. The size menu has groups for phones and tablets, such as iPhone, iPad and Android. Which sizes a wallpaper comes in depends on its shape, so not every wallpaper has them.

To see only the wallpapers that come in a phone or tablet size, choose it in the Screen filter on the list of wallpapers.

Yes, some wallpapers come in sizes for two or three screens. Choose “2 screens” or “3 screens” in the Screen filter on the list of wallpapers to find them.

The sizes of a wallpaper an artist submits are cut from their original, never stretched or enlarged. A size bigger than the original, or of another shape, isn’t offered.

“Match my screen” on a list of wallpapers shows the ones that come in your screen’s size or shape.

Every wallpaper shows its licence under its Download button. Its artist chose it, and it says what you may do with the wallpaper you download.

• All rights reserved: use it as a wallpaper on your own devices.
• Creative Commons licences (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND): each lets you share it under its own conditions.
• CC0: the artist gave up their copyright.

Each licence is explained on the wallpaper licences page.

It depends on the wallpaper’s licence:

• CC BY: yes, even commercially, if you credit the artist, link to the licence and say what you changed.
• CC BY-NC: not commercially. You may share and adapt it with credit.
• CC BY-NC-ND: not commercially, and only unchanged.
• CC0: yes, for any purpose, without asking or crediting.
• All rights reserved: no, not without the artist’s written permission. You may use it as a wallpaper on your own devices.
• From InterfaceLIFT: no, only as a wallpaper on your own devices.

Want to use a wallpaper another way? Ask its artist: “Contact the artist” is on each wallpaper’s page. The details are on the wallpaper licences page.

Their original terms aren’t known, so no licence is claimed for them: WallpaperLIFT doesn’t own them. You may use them only as a wallpaper on your own devices. See the InterfaceLIFT wallpapers’ terms.

InterfaceLIFT.com was a wallpaper community, from 2003 to about 2018. When it closed, its wallpapers stayed in the public Internet Archive, and many were preserved from there so they wouldn’t be lost.

WallpaperLIFT is an independent site: it isn’t affiliated with InterfaceLIFT.com or its former owners. Read more in About WallpaperLIFT.

They’re marked “From InterfaceLIFT.com” wherever they show. Each is credited to its original artist and keeps its original publish date.

Your work is credited to you here, on an artist page under your InterfaceLIFT name.

To claim it, write to us through our contact form, with the reason “I’m an InterfaceLIFT artist”, and tell us how we can confirm it’s you.

Use “Request removal” on the wallpaper’s page. Our team checks every request by hand. See Copyright & takedown.

It’s free: create an account with your name, a username, your email address and a password. You also accept the Terms of use and the Privacy policy, and confirm you’re old enough: the minimum age is in the Terms of use.

Then verify your email address with the link we email you. Already have an account? log in.

Verifying confirms the address is yours. Until you do, you can browse and download, but you can’t save favorites, rate, comment, use collections, follow artists or tags, or submit a wallpaper.

Click the link in the email we sent you when you signed up. If you can’t find it, the verification page and your account settings let you send yourself a new one.

No problem: reset your password. Enter your email address and we email you a link to choose a new one.

Then log in with your email address or your username.

You can delete your account at any time. Enter your password to confirm.

Your account is hidden, not erased: you’re logged out everywhere and your artist page disappears. You choose what happens to your wallpapers (keep them on the site, or hide them with your account) and to your comments (keep them, credited “Artist removed”, or hide them). You can also ask for your wallpapers to be removed.

To have your account deleted permanently, write to us through our contact form. The Privacy policy says what a permanent deletion erases and what it keeps.

Yes, until you ask us to delete it permanently. Sign up, log in or reset your password with the same email address, and everything comes back as before: your artist page, your wallpapers and comments, your favorites and your follows, except wallpapers you asked us to remove.

Any artist with an account and a verified email address can submit a wallpaper. Submit only your own work, which you have every right to publish: see the Terms of use.

The submission guidelines list the file formats and sizes we take, what we accept and what we don’t, and how every submission is reviewed. They are always up to date.

Our moderators review every submission before it’s published. How long that usually takes is in the review section of the submission guidelines. WallpaperLIFT is run as a hobby, so it can sometimes take longer.

They publish it, refuse it and tell you why, or ask you for changes. You see the decision in My submissions, and we email it to you unless you turned that off in your notification settings.

No. WallpaperLIFT is for authentic photography and for wallpapers made by people. That includes images made from a text prompt and photos changed with generative fill. Ordinary photo editing is fine. See the submission guidelines.

Yes: choose “Publish anonymously” on the submission form. The wallpaper is credited to “Anonymous”, and it doesn’t appear on your artist page or for your followers. Only you and our team know it’s yours.

Press Favorite on a wallpaper you like, then find them all on your favorites, the latest first.

Your favorites are shown on your artist page by default. To keep them to yourself, turn off “Show my favorite wallpapers” in your account settings.

A collection groups wallpapers you choose, and each one is public or private. Use “Add to collection” on a wallpaper to add it, or to create a new collection.

Create and manage them on your collections. A public collection is shown on your artist page and can be shared; a private one is only for you. Taking a wallpaper out of a collection doesn’t remove it from the site.

Their new wallpapers show in your feed. Manage what you follow on the artists and tags you follow.

You can also get the latest wallpapers by email once a week, what you follow first, only when there’s something new. It’s off until you turn it on in your notification settings.

A different wallpaper every day, picked from the whole collection and never the same one twice. It changes at midnight where you are.

The wallpaper of the day page also has a calendar, to see the wallpapers of past days.

Use the search, or browse the tags. Words shorter than three letters aren’t searched.

On the list of wallpapers, filters narrow it down: screen, colour, rating and minimum resolution, or “Match my screen”.

Artists with a verified email can rate a wallpaper out of 5 and change their rating later, except on their own wallpapers. Only each wallpaper’s average and number of ratings are public, never who rated it.

Comments are plain text, and links in them aren’t clickable. You can reply, edit and delete your own comments. Not an artist yet? create an account, it’s free.

Open the wallpaper’s page and choose “Request removal”. Fill in the form. Unless you’re logged in with a verified email, we email you a link to confirm your request.

Our team checks every request by hand and emails you the decision. The wallpaper stays up while we look into it.

For the details, see Copyright & takedown.

Once your request is confirmed, our team checks it by hand. The wallpaper stays up meanwhile, and we email you our decision. When we accept, the wallpaper is removed from the site. A request you don’t confirm is deleted.

We may refuse a request we can’t verify, so give us what you can: who you are, what you are to the wallpaper, and a link that supports your claim. See Copyright & takedown.

Ask for its removal from its page (“Request removal”) or from My submissions.

If you delete your account, you choose whether your wallpapers stay on the site or are hidden with it; to have them removed, ask for it there too (delete your account).