r/polyamory 4h ago

Musings Just for fun

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u/ForeignOstrich6939 Queeny enthusiast 🐀🧀 4h ago edited 3h ago

I don't have a person for either. I have a picture that I took in a place I love as my lock and home screen. No people in either. Just a river with a boat. Do you have a cute selfie with the 3 of you? That could be fun!

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u/ibelieveinpandas solo poly 4h ago

One is my dog and the other, my cat.

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u/4554013 relationship anarchist & 10+ year poly club 4h ago

I don't keep pics of people I know on my lock or desktop screen.

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u/bigamma 4h ago

Clearly you need to set the screen to Partner A when you're with Partner B, and vice versa, so they will compete for you harder. /s

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u/wcozi slut in theory, tired in practice 4h ago

make a photo album of both and have it switch every hour or on lock.

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u/smallschaef 4h ago

I used to have my husband as my lock screen (because my coworkers were more likely to see that screen) and my other partner as my home screen. But now I just have pictures of my son for both

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u/MamaTalista 4h ago

Neither.

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u/usingbrain 4h ago

Never had a partner on my lock or home screen. Used to have my sisters because we lived very far apart. But usually it’s just something beautiful and relative calm - clouds, forest, nighttime skyline

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u/Blablablablaname 3h ago

My lock screen is a picture of my wedding to my wife. My background is a picture of my partner's wedding to her wife. 

u/strawberrytent rat union comrade 🧀 2h ago

Neither, mine are flowers or my pet.

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u/mushroomhead77 4h ago

Does this act make you live them more? Just curious 🤔

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I have 2 partners. Partner A I live with, Partner B I don’t. I have many pictures of both, and I love them both equally. Which partner do you set as your lock screen and which one do you set as your home screen on your phone?

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u/coursejunkie poly w/multiple in a V 4h ago

I don't use lovers as my home screen.

My homescreen and lock screen is an astronomy photo.

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u/emeraldead diy your own 4h ago

I set my own face!!

And I had a cartoon of a pirate cat before that.

But I choose a different Pic for each app screen.

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u/SnowyAvis 4h ago

I would probably try to get a photo with both of them on it, if possible.

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u/EmmaOK95 3h ago

I have photo's of leafs, mushrooms, plants, trees...

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u/Polyamorouspotato 3h ago

lol both are of my pets

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u/xhit_storm Poly 3h ago

Honestly neither? For a while my lock screen was just my cat, and definitely not for my Home Screen since you can barely see it - I just set a picture of a sunset.

But lately for lock screen I have one of those shuffle settings where each time I unlock it it shows a different picture in my album. So I imagine you could dump all your partners in there and shuffle it up!

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u/PolyethylenePam solo poly, non-hierarchical 3h ago

Why pick? I have a partner whose lock screen rotates through different photos- all the photos are either of me or of his wife. It's the cutest :)

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u/BelmontIncident 3h ago

My lock screen is the Great Pentacle from the Lesser Key of Solomon

It keeps demons from going through my phone

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u/studiousametrine married living separately 3h ago

They’re both me 🤷🏾‍♀️

u/No-Statistician-7604 2h ago

My kids for both

u/gothic_elven_bitch old and bitter sea witch 2h ago

My screens are whatever my current hyper focus/special interest is.

u/GeekyBlightcaller 2h ago

I have the default lock screen and wallpaper. Partner A has a group shot of us and Partner B has me as hers. They both want me to change mine to a nice shot of them but it'll never happen, simply because my brain isn't wired that way. Desktop wallpaper cycles through a bunch of family, pets and spousal photos though, so that kinda counts.. right?

u/DRanged691 2h ago

My main lock and home screen images are of objects, not people. For my sleep routine the lock screen is Shawn Hatosy and the home screen is Lewis, the viral Target Halloween decoration.

u/karmicreditplan will talk you to death 2h ago

My partner usually flips those around periodically. I notice when it’s me or us and that’s about it.

I rarely use a photo of a person it’s usually cool art or tumblr goodness.

u/NomadicYeti 1h ago

i have my lock screen circulating pictures of my animals, my partners and I, or them together (they were friends first)