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On the start screen, tap Add photos, then choose your photos. You can also drag photos in from another app. While editing, tap Add in the Photos step. Take Photo and Choose File in the menu let you shoot a photo or pick an image from Files. When you replace a photo or pick My photo as the background, you choose Photo Library, Take Photo, or Choose File.

Each wallpaper holds up to 12 photos, or 30 with Tapey Pro. The Heart layout appears once you have 6 or more. Circle needs 8 or more, and Star, a Tapey Pro layout, needs 10 or more. If you go over the free limit, See Pro in the notice shows you Tapey Pro.

Turn on Also save shots to Photos in Settings, and photos you take in the app go to the Photos app as well. It's off at first, and when you turn it on, iOS asks whether Tapey may add photos.

Tap the save button at the top right of the editor, or Save on the last step. The wallpaper goes to the Photos app as a PNG at the resolution chosen in Settings. The first time, iOS asks whether Tapey may add photos.

If saving fails, allow photo access in Settings > Tapey. Open Settings in the notice takes you straight there.

Tapey shows one full-screen ad when you save a wallpaper. Google AdMob picks and serves that ad.

If the ad can't load, or your last save failed, Tapey saves right away without an ad. Tapey waits up to 60 seconds for the ad, and an ad that arrives later is not shown. Editing is locked while saving. If waiting for an ad makes saving take longer, Getting ready to save appears.

On a device that has seen the ad three or more times, the screen that appears after saving shows a one-line Tapey Pro note after the ad. If you close it, it stays hidden until you have seen the ad three more times.

Buy Tapey Pro from the menu or the start screen. You pay once, and it is not a subscription. After that, no ad appears when you save, and you can use up to 30 photos, the premium tapes, and the new frames and layouts. Before buying, you can still pick Pro items to preview them. If you save with them in place, you choose between Buy Tapey Pro, Save with basic items, and Keep editing. A Pro pattern or frame chosen for a single photo also counts as a Pro item. If you save with basic items, that photo is saved with Solid tape and a Border.

On a new device or after reinstalling, open Settings from the menu and tap Restore purchase. With the same Apple Account, you won't be charged again. If you bought Remove ads earlier, you already have Tapey Pro.

After you install the app, it gets ads ready once you first add a photo to the wall, and iOS then asks whether Tapey may track you. If you have Tapey Pro, it doesn't ask. The app works the same either way, and you can change your answer in Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking.

Where ad consent is required, such as the European Economic Area, change your choices under Ad preferences at the bottom of the start screen. There, the consent form appears before the tracking prompt.

Copies of the photos and background photos you pick, along with the layout and notes, are kept in the app's storage so you can pick up where you left off. Start over in the menu, then Start over, clears the current work. Keep and start over moves it to Recent before starting fresh. Deleting the app removes everything.

Tapping Make a new one after saving moves the current work to Recent. Recent keeps 3 projects and drops the oldest when a new one comes in.

Open the image you just saved in the Photos app, tap Share, then choose Use as Wallpaper. Tap Add, then choose Set as Wallpaper Pair.

The same steps are under How to set it as wallpaper on the screen that appears after saving.

In the Shortcuts app, Tapey's Last Wallpaper gets the wallpaper you last saved as an image. It runs without opening the app, and you can follow it with a Shortcuts action that changes your wallpaper.

Tapey runs on iPad too. There it makes a square wallpaper that works in both portrait and landscape, and the editor lets you switch between the two views.

To make an iPhone wallpaper on your iPad, pick an iPhone size under Resolution in Settings.

Arranging, decorating, and saving work offline. Ads, buying Tapey Pro, and restoring the purchase need a connection.

The handwriting fonts for notes are installed with the app. Each note is drawn in a handwriting font that matches its characters: Hangul, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, kana, Chinese characters, Thai, or Devanagari. Characters those fonts don't include appear in the system font.

Close the app completely, open it again, and check that you have the latest version from the App Store. If the problem continues, email us with the screen you were on and what you were doing.