iPad guide

iPad wallpaper sizes for every model

By Ujwal Tandon · Updated 31 October 2026 · 5 min read · Covers every iPad on sale and the models before them

iPad wallpapers are square. Your iPad turns its Lock Screen and Home Screen when you rotate it, so the picture has to cover the screen's long side both ways. The right size is that long side squared: 2752 × 2752 pixels for the 13-inch iPad Pro, down to 2316 × 2316 for the newest iPad mini.

• 2752 × 2752Largest iPad wallpaper, for the 13-inch iPad Pro
• SquareOne file fills the screen in portrait and landscape
• 264 ppiPixel density of most iPads; iPad mini has 326
• 6 sizesOur square files cover every iPad Apple sells today

iPad wallpaper sizes chart

Screen resolution is what your iPad's display has; wallpaper size is the square file that fills it in both orientations. Every iPad wallpaper on this site comes in each of these sizes; the newest iPad mini uses the 2360 × 2360 file, which iPadOS shrinks by 2% to fit.

Why iPad wallpapers are square

An iPhone wallpaper only ever needs to fill a portrait screen. An iPad's Lock Screen and Home Screen turn with the device, so the same picture has to fill a wide landscape screen and a tall portrait one. A square whose sides match the screen's long edge does both: in landscape the top and bottom of the square fall off-screen, and in portrait the left and right do.

A wallpaper that isn't square still works, but iPadOS zooms it until it fills the screen in the orientation it's showing. A 16:9 desktop picture, for example, shows only about 40% of its width when the iPad is upright, and is enlarged to do it, which softens the detail.

Keep the subject in the middle

Only the centre of a square wallpaper is visible both ways round: a square the size of the screen's short side. On a 13-inch iPad Pro that's the middle 2064 × 2064 pixels; on the newest iPad mini, the middle 1512 × 1512. Wallpapers with the subject in the centre and calm edges, like gradients, landscapes and abstract art, look right whichever way you hold the iPad. Pictures with something important near an edge will lose it in one orientation.

The clock on the Lock Screen sits near the top in portrait and on the left in landscape, so a busy area there makes the time harder to read.

Which iPad do I have?

1. Open Settings

   Go to Settings › General › About.

2. Read Model Name

   The Model Name line shows the exact iPad, for example "iPad Air 11-inch (M3)". Find it in the chart above.

3. Not sure from the name?

   Apple's Identify your iPad model page lists every iPad with its model numbers and features.

Set a wallpaper on iPad

1. Save the picture

   Download the size for your iPad. If Safari saves it to Files, open it there, tap Share, then Save Image to put it in Photos.

2. Add a new wallpaper

   Open Settings › Wallpaper and tap Add New Wallpaper, then Photos, and choose the picture. You can also touch and hold the Lock Screen and tap the + button.

3. Check both orientations

   Before you tap Add, turn the iPad to see how the picture sits in portrait and landscape, and move it if the subject is too close to an edge.

4. Use it on both screens

   Tap Set as Wallpaper Pair, or Customize Home Screen to pick a different picture behind your apps.