70+ Free HD Aesthetic Dark Academia Wallpaper Backgrounds For iPhone

A huge collection of the most mesmerizing dark academia wallpaper backgrounds for iPhone! Free HD download.

The dark academia trend has been super popular on Pinterest, Instagram, and TikTok.

In a nutshell, dark academia is an aesthetic related to higher education, ancient art and literature, and classic Greek and Gothic architecture.

Think of a university library full of old books with moody fall weather outside the window. This is the essence of dark academia.

You can bring dark academia vibes to your iPhone home screen, as I have found the most beautiful dark academia wallpapers for you below.

You can also get free dark academia app icons created with the use of a dark academia color palette.

If you are into the dark academia aesthetic, you may also enjoy these fall wallpapers, dark wallpapers, and goth wallpapers.

Now, let’s dive into these moody, dark academia wallpapers!

Free HD Aesthetic Dark Academia Wallpaper Backgrounds For iPhone

These wallpapers work great as both lock screen and home screen backgrounds.

You can download as many as you want and change your iPhone background image as often as you wish!

HOW TO SAVE THESE DARK Academia Wallpapers

Click on the relevant link underneath the set of three pictures. It will open up a new tab with the image you are interested in. You can download it instantly and set it as your wallpaper.

Enjoy!

Dark Academia Wallpaper Backgrounds

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle, Metaphysics

Download your free HD dark academia wallpaper backgrounds here: bookcase with a ladder (left) | bookcase full of old books (middle) | pile of old books with a pair of round glasses on top (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Backgrounds

“What if it was my imagination that could open this long-sealed door? And if that key let the terror walk right into my own life, so be it.” Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

Download your free HD dark academia wallpaper backgrounds for iPhone here: ancient stone building arches (left) | old stone building facade with a balcony (middle) | dried flowers in a vase on a window sill (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpaper Backgrounds

“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” Charles Baudelaire

Download your dark academia backgrounds here: old piano in a park (left) | gramophone (middle) | old piano with music notes (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpapers

“We always hide something of ourselves whenever we create something.” Laura Chouette

Download your free dark academia wallpapers here: flat lay with a book, flower, and coffee (left) | dandelion on fire (middle) | antique mirror (right)

Free HD Aesthetic Dark Academia Wallpaper Backgrounds For iPhone

“We were never supposed to be in love, for everything that exists inside a heart eventually dies.” Laura Chouette, Profound Reverie

Download your free wallpaper here: cracked antique brass framed wall mirror (left) | porcelain tea cup and coffee beans (middle) | arched passage in an ancient stone building (right)

Dark Academia Backgrounds

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle

Download your free dark academia wallpapers here: old fountain (left) | interior of an old house (middle) | antique statues (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpapers

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” Aristotle

Download your free HD dark academia aesthetic wallpaper backgrounds here: old stairs (left) | antique clock (middle) | spiral staircase in a library (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpaper Backgrounds

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Aristotle

Download your free HD aesthetic dark academia wallpapers here: old window (left) | The Leaning Tower Of Pisa (middle) | antique gramophone (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpapers

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates

Download your free HD dark academia aesthetic backgrounds here: old stone building with wooden door (left) | old corner building with ornamental facade (middle) | large old window (right)

Free HD Aesthetic Dark Academia Wallpaper Backgrounds For iPhone

“I think therefore I am.” (“Cogito, ergo sum.”) René Descartes

Download your free HD dark academia aesthetic wallpapers here: baroque building interior with decorative stairs (left) | window by the stairs in an old house (middle) | chandelier in an ancient castle (right)

Free HD Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpapers

“One cannot step twice in the same river.” Heraclitus

Download your aesthetic dark academia wallpaper backgrounds here: old book on a wooden table (left) | red color-themed old books on a shelf (middle) | pile of old books (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpaper Backgrounds

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” Socrates

Download your dark academia aesthetic wallpaper backgrounds here: candle in an antique candle holder (left) | old painting with a skull (middle) | candle (right)

Aesthetic Dark Academia Wallpaper Backgrounds For iPhone

“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.” Søren Kierkegaard

Download your aesthetic dark academia backgrounds here: bookcase filled with antique books (left) | bookcase (middle) | three candles (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpapers For iPhone

“His words were a brief flash of ringing clarity; a moment of calm in perfect chaos, like the eye of a storm.” Hannah Mathewson, Witherward

Get your dark academia aesthetic wallpapers here: three old books and dried flowers (left) | lion sculpture (middle) | old building overgrown with green plants (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpapers

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.” Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Download your free HD wallpaper backgrounds here: vintage-style room with a bookcase (left) | lion door knocker (middle) | bookcase with antique books (right)

Dark Academia Wallpaper Backgrounds For iPhone

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” Emily Dickinson

Get your aesthetic academia wallpaper backgrounds here: inside an antique bookstore (left) | flying book (middle) | bookcase with old books (right)

Dark Academia Aesthetic Wallpapers

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

Download your free HD dark academia aesthetic wallpaper backgrounds here: old cello (left) | university library (middle) | bookcases with old books (right)

Dark Academia Wallpaper Backgrounds

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates

Download your dark academia background wallpapers here: magical little casket (left) | door with snakes and a big old padlock (middle) | old building (right)

Dark Academia Wallpapers

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.” Robert Frost

Get your dark academia home screen iPhone backgrounds here: library with statues (left) | spiral staircase in a library (middle) | room decorated with antiques (right)

Aesthetic Dark Academia Wallpapers

“In everything, there is a share of everything.” Anaxagoras

Download your wallpaper backgrounds here: historical building (left) | statues (middle) | pile of old books with a silver pocket watch on top (right)

Dark Academia Wallpapers

“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.” Sylvia Plath