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Setting a Rate Cock wallpaper on any device

Apply it in the app in one tap, and what to do on phone or desktop.

The short answer

Inside Rate Cock, open the Wallpapers window and tap a card: it applies to your desktop at once and gets a tick. For your phone or computer’s own background, you set an image through that device’s settings, and the steps below are the general route on each.

What the wallpapers are, and how your pick is remembered, is covered in how desktop wallpapers work, so this page sticks to the doing.

Inside Rate Cock: nothing to download

Open Wallpapers from the icon on the right edge of the desktop, search by title or creator, and tap a card. There is no confirm step and nothing to save. Tap the active card again, or use "Reset to default background", to go back.

The page copy for the feature describes applying a wallpaper to your Rate Cock desktop, and it does not describe a file download. If you want the image itself for another device, look at the window for what is currently offered rather than assuming an export exists.

On a phone

Once you have an image saved to your photos, both iPhone and Android set a background from the same place: open Settings and look for Wallpaper, or open the photo, use its share or three-dot menu and pick the "use as wallpaper" option. The exact wording shifts between versions, so follow the label closest to that.

Both systems then let you move and zoom the image before confirming, and usually ask whether it is for the home screen, the lock screen or both. Choose the crop with the screen’s top and bottom in mind, because clocks and dock icons sit over those edges.

On Windows and macOS

On Windows, open Settings, then Personalization, then Background, and choose a picture from your files. On a Mac, open System Settings, click Wallpaper, and add your own image. Apple’s guide to choosing your desktop picture lists the routes: Add Photo, then Choose File, or Control-click an image file in Finder and pick "Set Desktop Picture".

Each system also lets you adjust size and position afterwards, which is the setting that decides whether the image fills the screen or leaves bars at the edges.

If it looks wrong afterwards

Soft, stretched or cut-off results are almost always a mismatch between the image and the screen rather than a faulty file. Matching a wallpaper to your screen size explains resolution, aspect ratio and the fit options.

If you want more from a creator whose work you like, every judge profile links to her published wallpapers, and how to read a judge profile shows where.

Before you share your screen

A wallpaper on your Rate Cock desktop is visible to anyone who can see your screen. If you share your screen on a call or work somewhere with people behind you, switch back to the default background first: tap the active card again, or use "Reset to default background".

The same goes for a phone lock screen, which shows without unlocking. Choose the lock screen and home screen separately if your phone offers both, and keep the lock screen plain if you are not the only one who sees it.

Your choice follows you, or not

Signed out, the pick is kept in the browser, so it is tied to that browser on that device. Signed in, it is kept on your account and follows you between devices, and a choice made before signing up carries over the first time.

That is worth knowing before you go hunting for settings on a second device: if you were signed in, the Rate Cock background is probably already there.

Apply it in the app in one tap, and what to do on phone or desktop.

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