These iPhone wallpapers willmake your folders transparent

Sean Wolfe/Business Insider

• Twitter user @heyeased discovered an
  iOS 12.1 glitch that makes the folders and dock on your
  iPhone’s
  home screen transparent. 
• The glitch involves using a certain image as the
  phone’s background, and turning on “Reduce Transparency” in the
  phone’s settings.
• Twelve backgrounds are available for notched iPhones,
  and 11 are available for older iPhones like the iPhone
  8. 

In some rare cases, phone software glitches can actually make the
experience more enjoyable. 

Twitter user @heyeased, who
creates the “Mysterious iPhone Wallpaper,”
discovered an iOS 12.1 glitch that makes your iPhone’s
folders and dock transparent. The result is a minimalistic look
for the home screen that isn’t conventionally available, given
Apple’s few customization options when it comes to their phones’
interfaces. 

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Setting up the wallpaper is simple:

• Go to Settings —> General —> Accessibility, then toggle
  on “Reduce Transparency.” 
• Next, pick out the background you’d like to use. For notched
  iPhones like the X, XS, and XS Max, click here.
  For iPhones without a notch, click
  here. Scroll to the colored wallpapers, tap on one to open it
  in its full resolution, and save it. 
• For iPhones without a notch, @heyeased recommends
  using the “Perspective” setting when applying the wallpaper. He
  also said to make sure you don’t move the image around before
  confirming. 
• For the iPhone X and other notched models, @heyeased said
  to use the “Still” setting when applying the wallpaper, and to
  make sure “Reduce Motion” is turned off in the phone’s
  settings. You shouldn’t move the image around before
  confirming, either. 
• The wallpaper should now be applied, and your folders and
  dock should be invisible. 

Here are the results Business Insider achieved with an
iPhone 8 Plus and an iPhone XS Max:

iPhone 8: 

Sean Wolfe/Business
Insider

iPhone XS Max: 

Sean Wolfe/Business Insider

It should be noted that some subtle lines are still visible on
the edges of the folders, and right above the dock. 

The creator of these transparent backgrounds has also released a
different glitchy wallpaper series, but these don’t make your
dock and folders disappear. Instead, these “Painter Type”
wallpapers cause your phone’s background, folders, and dock to
all appear as different colors. 

Here’s an example from @heyeased:

@heyeased

The “Painter Type” wallpapers can be downloaded for notched
iPhones here, and
for iPhones without a notch here.