April Fools: The Broken Screen Wallpaper Prank for iPhone, iPad, Android

April Fools: The Broken Screen Wallpaper Prank for iPhone, iPad, Android

Its April Fools day, which means the internet is basically full of baloney and nothing ca can be trusted or taken seriously. But rather than feed you a lump of imaginary doo-doo, we typically like to share around here. This year weve got a silly prank that works great for iPhone, iPad, Macs, or any other computer or device that has a lock screen its totally harmless but can cause a brief freak-out to an unsuspecting person its the good old fashioned broken glass wallpaper trick! This is a simple prank to play on someone, all you need to do is get a picture of broken glass or a shattered glass screen, and then set that as the lock screen wallpaper image on an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android phone, computer, whatever you want. The unsuspecting prank target then picks up their device or wakes their hardware to discover what appears to be a broken glass screen ahhh! Of course, its not actually broken, its just wallpaper. In the example here I used a picture of an actual before it was repaired, you can save this picture yourself and use it if you want to, it is 15002273 resolution and so it will fit just fine on most iPhone and iPad models, and if you rotate it horizontally itll be sufficient for the Mac and desktop too. Click the image below to open a full size into a new window so that you can save the wallpaper: (You can find many other similar pictures on the web like , or search on images.google.com, and set it as the wallpaper on something else if desired.) Just save the broken glass picture to an iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, Android, or whatever else, then set it as the lock screen wallpaper of the target users device. If you arent sure how you can , just be sure you choose Set Lock Screen when changing the wallpaper image for the best effect. For computer users you can . This trick tends to work best on the iPhone or smaller screens because it takes slightly longer usually for the person to realize the display is not actually broken, but Ive seen it successfully trick someone on even a jumbo screen 27 iMac as well, so its mostly a matter of how convincing the picture of broken glass you use is, and maybe you play it off, or how the person sees the image. Another similar trick that works quite well to prank iPhone and iPad users is the , or but weve already covered those before. On a more serious note, if you do happen to . And if you want to browse through some other or just , weve got you covered on this very-not-serious day of the year.