The clownfish wallpaper from Apple’s controversial 2007 presentation is finally making its way to the iPhone after 15 years — at least for some developers running the latest iOS 16 betas. Twitter user Jack Roberts provided light on the wallpaper by posting a screenshot of the Clownfish choice in iOS 16 Beta 3’s Collections section. The post went viral after it was retweeted by Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman.
The magnificent image of a baby and adult clownfish living in a green anemone was shown for the first time during Steve Jobs’ unveiling of the original iPhone and its glorious-at-the-time 3.5-inch display, but Apple never distributed it as a built-in wallpaper image. The entire version of the image was later released on the Mac; for example, it could be found in the Nature folder in Desktop & Screen Saver in 2009’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard release.
Some users appear to be seeing a new Clownfish wallpaper in iOS 16 beta 3. This is the wallpaper Steve Jobs used when the original iPhone was announced in 2007 — but it never actually ever shipped with any iPhone. Here we are 15 years later. https://t.co/OLTvb1KVJG
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) July 6, 2022
The clownfish wallpaper from Apple’s controversial 2007 presentation is finally making its way to the iPhone after 15 years — at least for some developers running the latest iOS 16 betas. Twitter user Jack Roberts provided light on the wallpaper by posting a screenshot of the Clownfish choice in iOS 16 Beta 3’s Collections section. The post went viral after it was retweeted by Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman.
The magnificent image of a baby and adult clownfish living in a green anemone was shown for the first time during Steve Jobs’ unveiling of the original iPhone and its glorious-at-the-time 3.5-inch display, but Apple never distributed it as a built-in wallpaper image. The entire version of the image was later released on the Mac; for example, it could be found in the Nature folder in Desktop & Screen Saver in 2009’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard release.
