Want a customized iPhone security wallpaper? Let me help with that!

A while ago I knocked up a custom iPhone security wallpaper that put your contact details on the front page of your iPhone so that if you lost it someone could easily return it.  The iPhone has a couple of security settings which are commonly used by people to safeguard their data.  First thing is a four digit ‘passcode lock’ which can be set to enable after 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 minutes of inactivity.  The second is an ‘erase data’ feature which will thoroughly wipe the phone after 10 passcode lock input errors.  Awesome idea, if you phone gets nicked as the thief tries to unlock it then there is no way for them to get to your personal data.

However, what happens if you leave you phone somewhere and an honest soul picks it up and wants to return it to you?  Well, if you have your passcode lock enabled then I’m afraid there is nothing you can do.  Mr or Mrs Honest can’t do a thing to find out who owns the phone unless you ring it constantly and hope they answer or you plaster the back of your phone with a big ‘contact details’ sticker.

Well, here’s an easy way around that.  Stick a custom wallpaper on your iPhone like the one I use below and when someone turns it on they are greeted with your details.

The initial wallpaper when the phone is turned on

The passcode screen, note how the info fits neatly

One tip, make sure the phone number you put in as your contact number isn’t the number of the actual phone!  That would be pretty dumb eh?  When you get your custom wallpaper just make sure you put it in your iPhone’s photo library and then go into your phone Settings/Wallpaper and then select the appropriate library/album and then your custom wallpaper.  Easy.

Now, how to make one….  Well, it is done in Photoshop and I figure many of you don’t have photoshop so I’m going to make it easy.  You can email me (to iphonewallpaper@cameronlaird.com) your email address and phone number and I will do it for you and then email it back.  You can even send me a pic to put with it, it MUST be 480px x 320px though.  Alternatively, if you ‘do’ Photoshop then feel free to ping me an email (to iphonewallpaper@cameronlaird.com) and I’ll shoot you back the PSD file and you can customize it to your hearts content.

If you would like me to do this for you I’d LOVE if and request that you could leave a comment here in the comments and if you are a twitterer then please tweet this by clicking right here on this link