You’ve seen these photos before, even if you don’t remember seeing them. They were originally in past Caturday posts. Unfortunately, writing about them in Caturday posts wasn’t good enough for them, so they took a vote in one of their magic circle meetings and decided they wanted their various photos to also be used as device wallpapers. And so I started to experiment with using my cat photos on my soon-to-be-legacy 12.9” iPad Pro.

The ability to create new iDevice wallpapers is a feature that crept upon me over the last few major releases. I’m not too sure I like the way this feature’s been implemented. I did manage to edit the lock screen text for the time such that it’s back to being thin weight, instead of that horrible (to my eyes) bold weight that suddenly appeared several releases back. Very large fonts do not have to be bold. Thin and elegant is more than sufficient.

One feature I don’t like is how the application so lightens the top of the photo for the lock screen that you can’t read the indicators for WiFi signal strength and battery percentage.

The picture of Nicholas was taken back during his invade-all-the-boxes phase. I actually had to be careful and make sure Nicholas wasn’t in a box I took outside to recycle, because he liked to hide inside boxes that had the top down.

The interior wallpaper is Luke and his sous-chef role during early morning breakfast preparation. He’s always up on the countertop walking around and providing a running commentary in Cat speak. I give him kisses, quick little rubs and scritches, and answer back when he speaks.

In this example the Apple software has dramatically darkened the top third of the photo, far more than what I’d photographed it as, but that’s fine because it allows all the white text to stand out.

I have lots more portrait oriented cat photos, so that over time I’ll cycle through them all. So far the cats haven’t asked me to make a made-on-iPhone movie about them, but I suppose it’s only a matter of time.