How to change the wallpaper on a Xiaomi phone (HyperOS 3)

Device

Android

Shown on

Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro 5G (25080RABDG), HyperOS 3.0.308.0, Android 16

App

Settings

Path

Settings › Personalisation

Real screenshots

6 of 6 steps

Checked

October 2026

Sources

2 official, linked below

Step by step

1. 

   Tap the picture icon on the Home screen preview

   Open Settings and tap Personalisation. The top shows the lock screen and the home screen side by side, both marked Custom on ours. Each has a small picture icon at its top right. Tap the one on the Home screen preview, on the right.

   Done

2. 

   Tap Select

   An editor called Home screen opens, with Cancel and Apply at the top and Select and Blur at the bottom. Tap Select.

   Done

3. 

   Pick a wallpaper

   A Wallpaper sheet opens. Local photos is for your own pictures and Themes for more from the Themes app. Below are built-in sets: Bloom (8 pictures) and Nature (6) on ours. We tapped the first Nature picture.

   Done

4. 

   Tap Apply

   The editor shows the picture behind your home screen icons, and the Select button shows it too. Tap Apply at the top right to use it. We didn't.

   Done

5. 

   Or Cancel and Discard

   Cancel, at the top left, asks Discard changes? with Cancel and Discard. We tapped Discard, and our home screen kept its old wallpaper.

   Done

6. 

   For the lock screen

   Back on Personalisation, the picture icon on the Lock screen preview, on the left, opens a Lock screen editor. On ours, with Wallpaper Carousel off, it had Wallpaper, Depth and Effects at the bottom; tap Wallpaper to pick one.

   Done

If you do not see this option

• Called Wallpaper & personalization? Xiaomi's steps for the REDMI 13C 5G are Settings, Wallpaper & personalization, pick a wallpaper, Apply, then choose where to show it. They also mention Find more for more wallpapers. Ours said Personalisation. Source: How to set the Home screen wallpaper on the REDMI 13C 5G?
• Asked Set as Lock screen or Home screen? Xiaomi's general help says that after Apply you pick Set as Lock screen, Set as Home screen or Set both. On ours the Home screen editor was only for the home screen. Source: Wallpapers and themes
• No Wallpaper button in the Lock screen editor? With Wallpaper Carousel on, ours showed no Wallpaper, Depth or Effects buttons, only a line of text at the bottom.

  

If this does not work

• Says Can't edit wallpapers when using wallpaper slideshow? That is Wallpaper Carousel. Ours showed it in the Lock screen editor while the carousel was on; with it off the editor had Wallpaper, Depth and Effects. Turn it off first: how to remove news and stories from the lock screen.
• Wallpaper didn't change? You need Apply, at the top right of the editor. Cancel, then Discard, throws the change away.
• Want one of your own photos? Tap Local photos in the Wallpaper sheet. Xiaomi also gives Gallery, the picture, the three-dot icon, Set as wallpaper, then Apply. Source: How to set the Home screen wallpaper on the REDMI 13C 5G?

About this guide

Your Redmi sets the home screen and the lock screen wallpaper separately, each from its own editor on the Personalisation page.

The screenshots are from our Redmi Note 15 Pro 5G with Xiaomi HyperOS 3.0.308.0 and Android 16, in Light mode. The wallpaper editors have a dark background of their own. We previewed a built-in Nature wallpaper, then tapped Cancel and Discard, so our wallpaper didn't change.

Good to know

Xiaomi says the same wallpaper settings also open from the home screen: press and hold it, then tap the wallpaper icon.

Darker look everywhere: how to turn on dark mode on a Xiaomi phone.

On a Pixel: how to change the wallpaper on a Google Pixel.

In short: Settings, Personalisation, picture icon on the Home screen preview, Select, pick a wallpaper, Apply. Cancel asks Discard changes?.