{"id":281333,"date":"2026-06-25T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/google-pixels-could-soon-get-a-wallpaper-photo-shuffle-feature\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:50:08","slug":"google-pixels-could-soon-get-a-wallpaper-photo-shuffle-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/google-pixels-could-soon-get-a-wallpaper-photo-shuffle-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pixels could soon get a Wallpaper Photo Shuffle feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-wallpaper-photo-shuffle-apk-teardown-3681326\/\">Google Pixels could soon get a Wallpaper Photo Shuffle feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-wallpaper-photo-shuffle-apk-teardown-3681326\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-wallpaper-photo-shuffle-apk-teardown-3681326\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 06:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clues inside Android 17 QPR1 beta 5 reveal Google is working on a native \u201cPhoto Shuffle\u201d feature for Pixel\u2019s Wallpaper &#038; style app.<\/li>\n<li>The feature will allow users to select albums of people or pets to automatically cycle as wallpapers at hourly, daily, sunrise\/sunset, or on-tap intervals.<\/li>\n<li>This feature appears inspired by iOS, and could eliminate the need for battery-draining third-party apps to achieve the same functionality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The iPhone-ification of Pixels has been underway for a while now. We\u2019ve seen Google adopt iPhone\u2019s Contact Posters in the form of Calling Cards through the Contacts app. More recently, we\u2019ve seen Apple\u2019s Handoff feature take form on Pixels as Continue On. There\u2019s more \u201cinspiration\u201d on the way: Google could soon let you set a shuffling library of your favorite photos as your wallpaper, much like you already can on iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an early look at the upcoming Photo Shuffle option within the Pixel\u2019s Wallpaper &#038; style app:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_gh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" title=\"Android 17 QPR1 beta 5 Photo Shuffle on Pixel 1 watermarked\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Android-17-QPR1-beta-5-Photo-Shuffle-on-Pixel_1-watermarked.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Android-17-QPR1-beta-5-Photo-Shuffle-on-Pixel_1-watermarked-47w-64h.jpg 47w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Android-17-QPR1-beta-5-Photo-Shuffle-on-Pixel_1-watermarked-1000w-1353h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Android-17-QPR1-beta-5-Photo-Shuffle-on-Pixel_1-watermarked-1064w-1440h.jpg 1064w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Android-17-QPR1-beta-5-Photo-Shuffle-on-Pixel_1-watermarked-798w-1080h.jpg 798w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Android-17-QPR1-beta-5-Photo-Shuffle-on-Pixel_1-watermarked-639w-864h.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Android-17-QPR1-beta-5-Photo-Shuffle-on-Pixel_1-watermarked-281w-380h.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Android-17-QPR1-beta-5-Photo-Shuffle-on-Pixel_1-watermarked-675w-913h.jpg 675w\" alt=\"Android 17 QPR1 beta 5 Photo Shuffle on Pixel 1 watermarked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Android-17-QPR1-beta-5-Photo-Shuffle-on-Pixel_1-watermarked.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AssembleDebug \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>As the description states, Photo Shuffle lets you create an album of your favorite people and pets to automatically shuffle through as your phone wallpaper.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re reading an <strong>Authority Insights<\/strong> story. Authority Insights brings you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage from the Android Authority team that you won\u2019t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Users can select an existing album to cycle through its contents, or create a new album with people and pet photos of their choice. Since this is an early look, we couldn\u2019t get either button to work. We don\u2019t know if these buttons will hook into your Google Photos library, but there\u2019s a decent chance they will, since the Wallpaper &#038; style app already (optionally) connects to your Google Photos account to suggest photos to set as wallpapers.<\/p>\n<p>How frequently will the app shuffle between wallpapers? We could spot options for hourly, daily, sunrise and sunset, and on tap.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_gh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" title=\"Google Pixel Photo Shuffle Shuffle interval options watermarked\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Pixel-Photo-Shuffle-Shuffle-interval-options-watermarked.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Pixel-Photo-Shuffle-Shuffle-interval-options-watermarked-61w-64h.jpg 61w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Pixel-Photo-Shuffle-Shuffle-interval-options-watermarked-361w-380h.jpg 361w\" alt=\"Google Pixel Photo Shuffle Shuffle interval options watermarked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Google-Pixel-Photo-Shuffle-Shuffle-interval-options-watermarked.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AssembleDebug \/&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-wallpaper-photo-shuffle-apk-teardown-3681326\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Pixels could soon get a Wallpaper Photo Shuffle feature https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-wallpaper-photo-shuffle-apk-teardown-3681326\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-25 06:15:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/iOS-Photo-Shuffle-Wallpaper.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-281333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281335,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281333\/revisions\/281335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}