Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (September 9)

Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens.

For the newest walls, as well as all those from previous weeks, check out this Drive link. Want to submit your own? Head to the bottom of this article.

Wallpaper Wednesday: September 9, 2026

Another week, another set of awesome Android wallpapers for you to share! Remember that we are always looking for submissions from our readers. Head to the bottom of this article to find out how you could have one of your images featured in an upcoming Wallpaper Wednesday!

With that in mind, we’ve got six awesome images from our readers that would look great on your phone, tablet, or PC. As usual, we also have three images from the Android Authority team.

Editor’s note: Keep in mind that the images below have been compressed and optimized to improve website performance. This means the quality has been reduced, and these are for demonstration purposes only. To get the full-resolution files, download the wallpapers from this drive link. 

Are you seeing anything you like? Let’s go over these images so you can get some context and further appreciate the imagery.

The first wallpaper is mine (Edgar Cervantes). I shared an image of one of my watches in last week’s Wallpaper Wednesday, and I am back with another one this week. This time, it’s actually a photo of my very favorite watch, the Hamilton Ventura. This is a very interesting one, because it’s a part of history. It was the first electric, battery-operated wristwatch, launched back in 1957 (hence the futuristic design). You may recognize it. It is the official watch for the Men in Black movies, and it was also Elvis Presley’s favorite watch. It’s considered a classic, yet adventurous timepiece, which is why I chose to showcase it in black and white. If you’re into watches, this one should look great as your background.

Next up, we have an image from Jonathan Feist. It’s a glorious landscape he captured during a recent trip to Scotland. I love its diversity. You can admire rocks, greenery, distant mountains, and a stunning view of the sky with really interesting cloud formations. It captures the grandeur and beauty of nature in a single frame. Because nature is also beautiful in miniature, the third wallpaper is a closer look at plants. This one comes from Zac Kew-Denniss.

Alright, it’s time to move on to the wallpapers that matter most: Yours! We’ll start with the fourth and fifth wallpapers, which come from the same reader. Sandile shot these in random areas around Durban, South Africa, using a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. As you can see, they are very different types of images. One showcases the beauty of nature, featuring a bird in its natural habitat. The other is an automotive photo, for those of you who love cars.

The sixth wallpaper is pure cuteness. It shows a figure of some monks acting out the hear, see, or speak no evil concept. It was captured by Bharathwaj Bala using an iPhone 17 Pro, and he calls it “Peace”. If you like this philosophy, this wallpaper can remind you of it every time you look at your phone!

Let’s move on to the seventh wallpaper, captured by Mayank Sharma using a OnePlus 7T. The image is actually from 2019, so he pulled it out of the archives to share with us. It was shot right after sunset and showcases the first star of the night, as well as a streetlight turning on. He mentions it’s a view from his old office, in Delhi, India.

The natural beauty of flowers intrigues all of us, and they always serve as perfect subjects for photography. I know I never stop marveling over flower images, no matter how many of them I see. Here are a couple of mesmerizing flower photos. The wallpaper featuring yellow flowers was captured by Libor using a Google Pixel 9 Pro XL. The one with the red rose is by Arkadeep Banerjee, taken with a Google Pixel 11 Pro using the 5x telephoto lens.

These are all amazing, guys! Great work. Thank you so much for participating. Again, be sure to download these photos in their high resolutions from this Drive link!

How to submit your own Android wallpapers

We are very excited to see your own contributions to our Wallpaper Wednesdays project. Before submitting, here are the rules:

• Your submissions should be your own creation. That means photos you took, digital art you created, etc. Please don’t submit other people’s work — that’s just not cool. Also, please don’t send images purely created with AI. They will not be accepted. Images you created and then augmented with AI tools are OK.
• You must agree to let Android Authority share your Android wallpapers for free with anyone who wants them.
• We will not accept watermarked images. You will, however, get a credit and a link in the article itself. We can link to your social media account only.

Ready to submit? Fill out the form below. You’ll need to include the highest-resolution version of the image you can provide, your name, and a brief description of what the image is. If you want us to link to a social media page you own in your credit, please provide that, too, but that’s optional.