Plain Black Background 1080x1920
This page gives you a plain black background at 1080x1920 (Full HD portrait), the upright version of the Full HD frame, for phone lock screens and home screens. It is true #000000 from edge to edge, with no gray cast, no gradient and no logo, so it looks the same whichever part of it your phone ends up showing.
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People also look for it as 1080x1920 black wallpaper, plain black phone background, black lock screen wallpaper or an all-black 9:16 image.
- Resolution
- 1080 × 1920
- Aspect
- 9:16
- Fits
- phones in portrait (scaled to fit taller screens)
- Color
- #000000
- RGB
- 0, 0, 0
- Format
- PNG, lossless
- File size
- 369 B
- License
- CC0, public domain
More Black Background Sizes
Other Colors in 1080x1920
A black lock screen in a dark room
A phone that lights up at night lights the room along with it, and how much depends mostly on what is behind the notification. On an OLED screen a plain black background leaves every pixel around the text switched off, so a message arriving at 2 a.m. shows as a few lines of light rather than a bright rectangle. On an LCD the backlight still comes on, but black keeps it to a dim glow instead of a white glare.
It helps anywhere a lit screen is unwelcome: a cinema, a theater, the side of the bed where someone is asleep. Pair the plain black background with the lowest brightness setting and your phone's night or bedtime mode, and checking the time stops being an event. Phones that dim the wallpaper at bedtime have nothing left to do here, since it is already as dark as a screen image gets.
Android's theme colors and a black wallpaper
Since Android 12, many phones build their system colors from the wallpaper: the accent on buttons, toggles, the notification shade and some app icons is picked out of whatever image sits behind your home screen. A plain black background gives that process no hue to work with, so the wallpaper-based options come out neutral or fall back to a default.
That is usually a feature rather than a problem. On a Pixel, the Basic colors tab in the wallpaper and style settings lets you choose an accent yourself, so you get a black home screen with a green or a blue accent that you picked rather than one inferred from a photograph. Samsung phones offer the same choice under Color palette, and either way the plain black background stays out of the decision.
A home screen with nothing behind it
A plain black background is the usual base for a pared-back home screen: one page of apps, a few widgets, or a text-only launcher that lists app names instead of icons. Setting one up is mostly a matter of deciding what stays on the first page and moving everything else to the App Library or the app drawer, where search finds it just as quickly.
Icons are the next choice. iOS and Android both offer monochrome or tinted icons now, and on a plain black background they turn a grid of logos into one quiet set of shapes. Widgets are worth choosing by their background too: those with dark panels of their own merge into the black, so their edges drop away and only their content is left on the screen.
Questions
Can I use it as a background for Stories or Reels?
Yes. 1080x1920 is the size Instagram Stories and Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts recommend, so it uploads without being cropped.
Will dark mode change it?
No. Dark mode restyles menus and apps, and the wallpaper dimming some phones apply at night has nothing to take down from pure black.
How do I check that the black file downloaded properly?
Open its details in Photos or your gallery app. It should read 1080 × 1920 and 369 B, the size the download button showed. A thumbnail that looks like an empty black square is what a correct file looks like. If yours is much larger or has turned into a JPEG, something re-encoded it on the way, often a messaging app, so save it again from this page.
How do I put it on my lock screen?
Save it to the phone first.
- iPhone: In Photos, tap Share, then Use as Wallpaper, and pick the lock screen.
- Android: Long-press the home screen, open Wallpaper and style (or Wallpapers), choose the saved image and apply it to the lock screen.
Can I share it or use it in my own designs?
Yes. It is CC0 public domain, so you can pass it on, edit it or build it into something you sell.
This background is CC0 (public domain) — free for any use, no attribution needed. See the License page.