What is new in EveryWall

EveryWall's versions, from the first one. 1.0.0 arrived within a handful of days and is the one published on the App Store.

1.0.3 - the icon in dark and tinted mode

The icon did not adapt to the Home Screen. The catalogue held one icon and iOS 18 wants three: without the other two the system always shows the light one, whatever the screen is set to.

• In dark mode the graphite background held up, but it stayed a solid rectangle among icons the system has already blended into the black. The dark variant is now the mark on a transparent background, because the system supplies the background.
• In tinted mode iOS derived the variant from the light one and the result was a dull W. Now the variant exists and is the same shape in greyscale, lightened on purpose: there grey means "how much tint", so a plain conversion would have stayed dim.

Checked on the simulator in all three modes. Worth remembering: the rule "iOS icons allow no transparency" applies only to the light one; the other two need it.

1.0.2 - every launch is a new drawing

Opening the app always gave the same wallpaper. Same shape, same palette, same grain, every time: up to 1.0.1 launching brought back the last composition used. It looked like a courtesy - finding things as you left them - and in the hand it did the opposite, a wallpaper app that always opened on the same drawing. Now every launch is a new composition, decided the way Surprise me would. Whatever you want to keep goes into favourites, which is the right place for it.

The widget was about to become useless. Tapping it opened a random image instead of the one you had just been looking at, and the cause was not the surprise: the widget opened the app without telling it anything, and never had. Now it carries an address holding the day of the image you tapped, and the app opens that one. Not "today": if the widget is showing yesterday because the app has not run in a while, yesterday is what opens.

Approved and published on 17 August 2026, after a longer review than usual and with no requests: the third release in a row to pass first time. everywall.app/privacy went online with its new text at the same moment, because the app no longer remembers anything on the phone and the policy had to say so.

1.0.1 - the widget changes day on its own

The widget did not change day. It still showed yesterday's wallpaper and only caught up after the app was opened and closed. The cause was not the widget: nobody was drawing. Inside an extension there is no WebView with the engine, and the drop box held a single image, always under the same name: at midnight the system redrew itself, found that file - yesterday's - and put it back on screen.

Now the app prepares today and tomorrow, one file per day, so at midnight the new one is already there. The widget also showed the wrong date, which is the worse of the two: it said "15 August" over the wallpaper of the 14th. Now every entry carries the day of its own image and writes that.

Submitted for review on 16 August 2026, approved and published on the 17th.

1.0.0 - the first published version

Same content as 0.9.7: only the number changes, because a first release starting at 0.9.7 looks odd on the App Store. Submitted for review on 14 August 2026, published on 16 August, free, in every country.

0.9.x - the fixes that came from testing on a real phone

Six defects found by using the app on a real iPhone, not on the Simulator:

• The favourites notebook stayed in Italian on a phone set to English.
• The top icons disappeared against light wallpapers.
• The widget did not read clearly.
• The preview of the saved file was softer than the one on screen.
• The grain could not be seen. The second time round the reason became clear: in the engine it is one-pixel noise, which at 460 pixels per inch the eye does not resolve.
• With large accessibility text the panel became unusable.

The privacy manifest and the App Store listing texts arrived here too.

0.8.x - the two languages

A string catalogue with fifty entries, Italian and English both complete, the Photos permission text translated, a bilingual widget. The graphics names follow the phone's language, and so does the alphabetical order of the carousel, which is not the same in two languages.

0.7.0 - the wallpaper of the day

The panel at the top showing today's wallpaper, decided by the date, plus the widget for the Home Screen in three sizes. The daily image is prepared after the first preview, so the launch stays fast.

The first versions

The generative engine with its fifty-five graphics and twenty-six palettes, the full-screen preview in the phone's real proportions, the wallpaper code that regenerates an identical wallpaper, favourites, saving at the exact resolution of the screen and sharing. Sixty-six automated tests, all green.