XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Here's the short, clear truth but it's not great news for anyone who wants   
   a true solid-color wallpaper on iPadOS using only the native GUI supplied.   
      
   Natively, iPadOS cannot produce a true solid-color wallpaper using the   
   built-in "Color" option as even in iPadOS 26.3, Apple's "Color" wallpapers   
   are always gradients, even when you type in a HEX value like ABCDEF.   
      
   The GUI looks like it might allow a flat color, but the rendering engine   
   intentionally applies a subtle radial or linear gradient.   
      
   This is not a bug. It's simply Apple's design choice.   
      
   And it's consistent across all sources I checked since Apple's wallpaper   
   system in iPadOS 26.x is built around the "Liquid Glass" aesthetic, which   
   emphasizes depth, translucency, and gradients.   
      
   Apple makes all that profit off of marketing gimmicks, not technology.   
      
   Apple simply does not provide a native way to set a perfectly uniform, flat   
   RGB/HEX background but all is not lost if you're stuck on an iPad as I am.   
      
   The only way I know of to get a mathematically perfect, uniform color on   
   iPadOS is to create (or download) a pure solid-color image (PNG/JPG).   
      
   Using any solid-color image, you can set it as a wallpaper through Photos.   
   Since privacy is a million things, of which most people know about three,   
      
   The 1x1 PPM -> PNG workflow is ideal because:   
    a. It's offline   
    b. It's metadata-free   
    c. It's watermark-free   
    d. It's fingerprint-resistant   
    e. It scales perfectly with no artifacts   
    f. It bypasses Apple's gradient-only UI   
      
   And iPadOS will happily accept any imported image as a wallpaper, even   
   though the iOS operating system refuses to generate a flat color itself.   
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