Completely Plain Black Wallpaper
Completely plain means exactly that — fields of black with nothing in them, in both tall and wide cuts, for people who found even 'minimal' wallpapers too busy. Free to download.
There is a famous small tragedy in wallpaper hunting: you search for plain black and get patterns, logos and gradients. This gallery is the antidote — files that are genuinely, completely plain, in both orientations, at sizes that stay smooth instead of banding. One user story in the collection sums up why it exists: someone wanted true black for an iPhone X and everything they found was almost black. These are not almost. Long-press on a phone or right-click on a desktop, save, set as wallpaper. Free for personal use, no signup asked.
Common questions
Do black wallpapers actually save battery?
On OLED and AMOLED screens, yes. A true-black (#000000) pixel is switched off rather than dimmed, so it draws no power — and with an always-on display that runs all day the difference is measurable. On an LCD screen it saves nothing, because the backlight stays on either way. Not sure which you have? Our OLED test tool fills the screen with pure black: on an OLED it goes completely dark, on an LCD you can still see the backlight glowing grey.
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