Windows 11 may not support animated wallpapers out of the box, but you can liven up your desktop thanks to a third-party app.

Just as with live wallpapers on iPhone and video wallpapers on Android phones, animated wallpapers for PC exist, and they're a great way to keep a home screen looking lively even while the user is ...

You can use the open source video player VLC to make animated desktops from animated GIFs that are converted to a video format. You can use such a desktop to play a video that highlights ...

The new Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 build adds a couple of new sections to the wallpaper selector, including one for live effects.

Setting an animated GIF as your wallpaper on a Mac can add a dynamic and personalized touch to your desktop. However, macOS does not natively support animated GIFs as wallpapers, so you will need ...

The Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro have leaked in just about every single way at this point, and now you can add one of its animated wallpapers to that list. Granted, animated Pixel 8 wallpapers are not ...

Microsoft has been working on dynamic animated wallpapers for Windows 11 for a few years, and now a former designer has revealed exactly what they look like. Sergey Kisselev, a former motion ...

Alongside the Astro Bot one that's been there from the start, you can now decorate your Welcome screen with wallpapers based ... including animated ones — and it looks like Sony is releasing ...

For example, Windows 11 doesn’t support animated wallpapers natively. It supports only static images. However, you can use third-party apps for animated wallpapers. An interesting app called ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has been working on dynamic animated wallpapers for ...