iOS 17 wallpapers blurry at top

Does not work

It’s awful! It has made it so that I cannot see the top bar either because it blurred it white. I can’t see the time, battery status, or service details! Apple get rid of this!!!

How do I tell apple I hate the half of my wallpaper blurred.

Thanks

Couldn’t agree more!!!

In fairness, you commented to a post I made on the first page of this thread, just a day or two after iOS 17 was released. 4 pages later, we're all pretty aware a visit to genius bar would be pointless, but there's no way I can change that post weeks later.

Here's a workaround form reddit user u/Heavenguard:

• Go to your photos, choose a picture you want.
• Click edit, crop, then the square on the top right hand side with little squares in it, choose "wallpaper", then save the cropped image.
• Find the image in your photos album, then select "set as wallpaper".
• Whatever you do, do not pinch to zoom out otherwise that will cause it to blur.

Found a solution!

Go to wallpaper in setting —> select your wallpaper —> customise —> tapp on the 3 dots on the bottom right —> uncheck the Extend Wallpaper tab. No more blur at the top 👌🏼

This is known as extend wallpaper and it’s ideally designed to aid visibility and allow you to set a wallpaper that doesn’t fit the required device aspect ratio. You can actually switch it off by toggling the three dots on the bottom right side of the screen and switching off extended wallpaper. Hope this helped. Cheers.

It’s not working if u zoom out though.