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Extract your iOS wallpaper if the image is not in your Camera Roll
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  1. Backup your iOS device to your computer (not iCloud) through iTunes
  2. Download iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor from http://supercrazyawesome.com/
  3. Run the app, and click "Read Backups"
  4. Find the backup you just made
  5. Make an empty directory
  6. Scroll all the way down and highlight "iOS Files"
  7. Extract the iOS files to the directory you made
  8. Visit https://www.dcode.fr/cpbitmap-format
  9. Click "Choose File"
  10. Inside the directory you created, find the iOS Files/Library/Springboard directory.
  11. Upload HomeBackground.cpbitmap. That will invoke a download the image in PNG or JPEG format.
  12. Upload LockBackground.cpbitmap for good measure. That will invoke a download the image in PNG or JPEG format.

These instructions owe a debt to http://www.iclarified.com/entry/?enid=4974

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