iOS 17 wallpapers blurry at top

Open the Settings App

Tap Wallpaper

Tap the Wallpaper you use for your home screen

See Blur at the bottom right hand corner and tap it to turn Blur off

Hi i have this problem too. I am a student and want to have a wallpaper of thing i need to memorize and look at everyday and i cant because apple doesnt have a feature to turn it off. Hopefully they come out with it soon ecause this is super inconvinient

Yeah this is absolutely ridiculous. Even when trying to use a photo I’ve had as a wallpaper before, this stupid “feature” goes and ruins the whole thing. 🤦🏻‍♂️ they never fixed the landscape wallpaper (when you swipe down from the top left while in widescreen mode) issue introduced in iOS 16 so this has got me a bit worried.

This worked perfectly…i signed in just to reply and tell this person thank you!

The person you are talking to is correct. The blur option you are referring to is not the same as what is being discussed. It’s also not a bug, it’s an intended feature. Leave it to apple to restrict their users in the most obnoxious and dumb ways they can think of.

Temporary Solution: Go to the image in your photos app, go to crop. Click on the third button from the right that looks like multiple screens overlapped. Select 'wallpaper' and adjust the photo from there. Save it and set it as your wallpaper.

hockeyy wrote:

this update is terrible i can’t even change my wallpaper without it being ruined by the blur. please fix this apple

Asking Apple to do anything here, is as useful as shouting into the wind. This is a user to user only forum and Apple isn't here.

You can use this link let Apple know you'd like them to do something about this --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

this is a terrible feature, hope they have the presence of mind to make it a toggle at the very least

It's stupid i know. They should fire this Product Manager, but this works:

1) Duplicate the picture (select 3 dots in upper right of picture, select Duplicate)

2) Edit the pic

3) Select Crop

4) Select the icon in the upper right, looks like rectangles within rectangles

5) Select WALLPAPER in the lower right

6) Adjust to your liking

7) click Done

Do your typical Use as Wallpaper

I've posted this before, but since people often don't read much in a thread they posted too, it bears posting again.

You can save a photo as wallpaper, which stops the blur by doing the following:

Open the photo you want to use.

Tap Edit

Tap Crop

Tap the box at the top with boxes in the box

Now choose Wallpaper and then done

You can choose this saved wallpaper and it won't blur. Don't try to resize it after choosing it as wallpaper.

I hate itttttttt

I am having the same problem, why isn’t there an option to not blur the top. I want to use a cute photo on my Lock Screen but it is just ruined by the blurred top! That idea was not thought through at all, it’s ridiculous!!! And if I don’t want to have a blurred top I have to zoom it in so far that you can’t even see the picture anymore…. This needs to be changed back or at least give us an option to not have to blurred!!!

kani35 wrote:

Mine as well I just hate what they did with the wallpapers I’m really going crazy because of that update I hope Apple changes it as soon as possible!!

Have you told Apple how you feel?

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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.

They won't see your comment here on this user to user only forum.

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I have found a work around, in photos choose crop, select the icon next to Auto, you’ll see some options at the bottom then choose wallpaper. Try setting this pic as wallpaper and there won’t be any blurring at the top.