Kaliko Wolf

Q: How do you stop iOS 7 from auto enlarging your background picture?

How do you stop iOS 7 from auto enlarging your background picture? And before it's mentioned, no, Turing off Reduce Motion has absolutely NO effect on the auto enlarge feature that apple stupidly thought would be a good idea. The Reduce Motion ONLY stops the background from subtly shifting as you turn or angle the iDevice.

Posted on Jul 10, 2014 8:51 AM

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Q: How do you stop iOS 7 from auto enlarging your background picture?

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  • by stevejobsfan0123,

    stevejobsfan0123 stevejobsfan0123 Jul 10, 2014 9:11 AM in response to Kaliko Wolf
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    Jul 10, 2014 9:11 AM in response to Kaliko Wolf

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    See where it says "Perspective Zoom?"

    You should see this if you have iOS 7.1 or later and have "Reduce Motion" OFF.

  • by Kaliko Wolf,

    Kaliko Wolf Kaliko Wolf Jul 10, 2014 9:55 AM in response to stevejobsfan0123
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    Jul 10, 2014 9:55 AM in response to stevejobsfan0123

    Yes, and that works in reducing the image some, but if the image is larger than the iPad resolution, it still will not let you pinch it down to size. It rubber bands back.

  • by SergZak,

    SergZak SergZak Jul 10, 2014 10:15 AM in response to Kaliko Wolf
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    Jul 10, 2014 10:15 AM in response to Kaliko Wolf

    I don't believe that you can get the scaling 100% back to how it was before iOS 7. What may work is to manually resize the image to the exact pixel width/height using a PC and using that image but even then, I'm not sure the device itself will fit the image exactly as you want it.

     

    There are numerous apps in the App Store that claim to fix this issue but I have not tried any of them to verify.

  • by Kaliko Wolf,

    Kaliko Wolf Kaliko Wolf Jul 10, 2014 10:23 AM in response to stevejobsfan0123
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    Jul 10, 2014 10:23 AM in response to stevejobsfan0123

    Update: the perspective zoom option is only available if the reduce motion is turned on. When the reduce motion is turned off, the perspective zoom option is no where to be found. But even if the perspective zoom if off, the picture is still enlarged way too much. But thank you for the help!!

  • by Kaliko Wolf,

    Kaliko Wolf Kaliko Wolf Jul 10, 2014 10:23 AM in response to SergZak
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    Jul 10, 2014 10:23 AM in response to SergZak

    I Have the wallax app that let's you rescale the pictures, but I was hoping for a more device oriented fix. Thanks for the help!!

  • by Skydiver119,

    Skydiver119 Skydiver119 Jul 10, 2014 10:47 AM in response to Kaliko Wolf
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    Jul 10, 2014 10:47 AM in response to Kaliko Wolf

    The only semi workaround is to go into your photos app and 'send' your image to be a wallpaper. GIves you a bit more control than going in through the wallpaper panel.

     

    Still the system demands that all the screen be filled, so it automatically zooms in as much as it takes to fill the screen, which usually only leaves you the ability to move your image up and down or left to right.

     

    The higher resolution your image is also helps since there are more pixels to play with

  • by Kaliko Wolf,

    Kaliko Wolf Kaliko Wolf Jul 10, 2014 11:46 AM in response to Skydiver119
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    Jul 10, 2014 11:46 AM in response to Skydiver119

    I've downloaded 2048x1536 wallpapers, and it still enlarges them dramatically. I only get a small portion of the picture.

  • by Texas Mac Man,

    Texas Mac Man Texas Mac Man Jul 10, 2014 11:53 AM in response to Kaliko Wolf
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    Jul 10, 2014 11:53 AM in response to Kaliko Wolf

    Why your wallpapers look messed up on iOS 7, and how to fix them!

    http://www.imore.com/having-issues-wallpapers-ios-7-heres-why-and-how-fix-it

     

    How to Change iPad Wallpaper and Grab or Save Images from the Web

    http://portables.about.com/od/newsandviews/ss/iPad-tutorials_5.htm

     

    You could use the free Instafit app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instafit-post-photos-to-instagram/id591706840?mt =8

     

    Cheers, Tom

  • by Kaliko Wolf,

    Kaliko Wolf Kaliko Wolf Jul 10, 2014 12:55 PM in response to Texas Mac Man
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    Jul 10, 2014 12:55 PM in response to Texas Mac Man

    Thanks for the help tom, but the instafit is for iPhone/iPod etc. not for the iPad. And the other sites just explain what the other threads talk about. None offering any real solution.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Jul 10, 2014 1:06 PM in response to Kaliko Wolf
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    Jul 10, 2014 1:06 PM in response to Kaliko Wolf

    This is the basic issue for either an iPad or iPhone.

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6261

     

    What iOS 7 does differently is that it will not allow an image to have a blank area on the screen. You can find thousands of wallpaper images on the web, and virtually all of them are rectangular to fit the shape of the device screen in the tall orientation. That's the problem. iOS 7 forces a narrow image to be large enough to fit the smaller dimension of the image to the longer dimension of the screen. It then stays that size so when it rotates on center, the image maintains its position no matter which way you turn the device.

     

    To avoid that, the image needs to be square. I'm not exactly sure if 2524 x 2524 is absolutely necessary for the iPad. I happened to find an original copy of the surf wave image Apple installs with iOS 7, and that was its size. Any I create to that size do work. I just haven't tested to see if a larger or smaller image would work just as well.

  • by Kaliko Wolf,

    Kaliko Wolf Kaliko Wolf Jul 10, 2014 1:17 PM in response to Kurt Lang
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    Jul 10, 2014 1:17 PM in response to Kurt Lang

    Yeah, but my big thing is...iif you resize it, then you miss a LOT of the picture.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Jul 10, 2014 1:27 PM in response to Kaliko Wolf
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    Jul 10, 2014 1:27 PM in response to Kaliko Wolf

    Yup, but it can't be helped under iOS 7. Created to the correct size, in portrait mode, you see all of the height of your image, but the width (of course) gets cut off. Turned to landscape orientation, you see all of the width, but the height gets cut off. In both cases, a natural consequence of the screen not being a square itself. If you check Apple's supplied desktop images in iOS 7, and any previous version of iOS, they do the same thing. All of Apple's supplied images have always been square. They're just never shown that way in the settings.

  • by Kaliko Wolf,

    Kaliko Wolf Kaliko Wolf Jul 10, 2014 1:42 PM in response to Kurt Lang
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    Jul 10, 2014 1:42 PM in response to Kurt Lang

    True, but I have my iPad locked in landscape position. Not to mention, that defeats the purpose of allowing us to set our own desktops.  But the issue I'm talking about is the fact that when you go to wallpapers and try to set a big image as your background, it will not let you pinch it smaller to fit the screen. So what if the image has boarders if you rotate it this way or that. It should be my choice, not apples. I own the device, not rent it. I should be allowed to take a 3d abstract art 1920x1080 wallpaper and pinch it to fit my screen and save it. When you pinch an image, it just rubber-bands back. I didn't pay $900 so Apple could dictate the limitations of a background wallpaper... One of extremely few personalizations you can do to the iDevices. Ya know..

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Jul 10, 2014 1:50 PM in response to Kaliko Wolf
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    Jul 10, 2014 1:50 PM in response to Kaliko Wolf
    It should be my choice, not apples.

    And I agree. But neither of us is a programming engineer at Apple, and so don't get to make those decisions. The user tip I wrote was based on the fact I didn't like it either, and was trying to figure out why it was scaling an image up in the first place, and then how to fix it as best as possible.

     

    Since you've locked your iPad to one orientation, you should be able to copy your custom image off to your Mac (assuming you own one) and use an image editor, such as Photoshop Elements, to add pixel area to the narrow dimension to make it the same number of pixels as the larger dimension. Increase the canvas size so the extra space leaves the original narrower dimension centered, as in this example:

     

    sample.jpg

     

    Copy it back to your iPad and select the modified image. Since it's square, it shouldn't scale.

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