iOS 17 wallpapers blurry at top

There is a fix that’s not too bad. You don’t need to duplicate the image to do this. When you select a photo to put as wallpaper in the wallpaper settings, just enlarge it a little until the top blurring goes away.

It’s not a perfect solution because you must expand the image and therefore you lose the some of the edges of your images.

So I think I’ve found the solution. When you zoom out to make the image fit, it automatically adds the blur, but if you use two fingers to kind of drag it up or down, it removes the blur. Worked for me. Using an iPhone 15 Pro

Yes! That worked for me. I went to Settings > Focus > Focus Status, then turned off Share Focus Status. Then I went to my wallpaper, chose a different, arbitrary photo, then chose my desired photo again. This time it fits the screen perfectly and is not blurred at the top. Awesome, thank you Yeheey1.

This was frustrating me too. My wife came up with a good solution. If you open the picture you want in photos on your phone and zoom in however you want it, then take a screen shot, that screen shot will then be the correct aspect ratio and will work as your wallpaper without blurring at the top.

i personally used instagram because it’s really easy to set a background color, then drop in an image, and save it from there. however, procreate, sketchbook, or really any drawing app would work. just put a background color on any of these apps, then insert your image, and make it small enough that a thick border of color is seen around the image, then save it and put it in your wallpaper! you might have to adjust the size of the border depending on what image you’re using, but it works rlly well! i hope this helped :)

I use a trick to this blur, just open any photo editor , put ur desired lockscreen in any background color ( make the lockscreen smaller and in the bottom) save it and put the whole picture as ur lockscreen. There, u can zoom the picture to make it only fit ur lockscreen picture

Easy fix. I’m on iOS 17 too. Had the same issue. Just have to open the image in photos. Edit, crop, crop it until it fits perfectly in the screen. (No blank space) save. Then set as your wallpaper and it won’t get blurred at the top

I just downloaded ios17 today and had the same issue. I’m not sure if this will fix the problem, but I went to photos and edited the one I wanted to use. I cropped it as wallpaper. It now fills the screen and I don’t notice any blur.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

Bdhdbhajdk wrote:

My background isn’t something that needs blur, it is digitally created. It looks so much better zoomed out and the blur makes it look like crap. Idk, I just kinda hope apple sees this.

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you could digitally add black around it so u can zoom out as the picture would result bigger, as a solution for the moment

Simple solution. Don’t make your wallpaper from a photo in your pictures file until you do this.

1) Find the photo you want

2) Adjust it to size and position you want.

3) Screen cap the picture.

4) No set it as wallpaper.

**If you try and adjust it again the same thing will happen so you need to pre adjust it prior to setting it as wallpaper.**

Open the photo

Tap Edit

Tap Crop

Tap the box above with multiple boxes in it

Choose Wallpaper, which will save the photo in a format appropriate for wallpaper

Tap done to save it

This will let you use the wallpaper without the blur, as long as you don't try to expand it.

You might’ve already done this, but just in case: Follow those same steps to create a wallpaper cropped duplicate, but instead of leaving and going into settings, go into the share options for the photo and do ‘use as wallpaper’. That worked for me. The blur is gone.

Something odd I just discovered: When I press-hold my lock screen, and scroll through my past wallpapers, anything that wasn’t blurred to begin with still isn’t blurred if I use it now. Not sure why that is? I’m certainly not complaining. Thought it might be worth sharing.

So cropping the photo does work!!! Try that and there is no blur. I cropped it as wallpaper and it fixed the problem.

All you do is take a screen shot of your picture and then use that picture, the Apple way with the three dots doesn’t work, neither does the duplicate- I’m looking right at it no blurr.

Yea i have the same problem but figured out that if u take a screenshot and put the same photo it doesn’t do it but dam its kinda stupid idk what they were thinking