iOS 17 wallpapers blurry at top

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

Ok so after reading this blog having had it happen to me as well I have found a solution but it takes a little work. So I have the picsart app. When I take my background picture and put it into a collage on picsart which basically makes the top parta big black chuck I then take that to try and make it a wall paper. The Ipad then only focuses on the picture and somehow it works. Now if I turn the Ipad to a book like position it shows the black section. But sense my Ipad stays in like Laptop mode with a keyboard this is not a problem.

Hi all,

if you check the apple’s editing tool for images, you will find a new format of cutting the image which is “papel de parede” in Portuguese, which in English should be “wallpaper”. If you cut the image that you want with this format, when you apply the wallpaper, the blur doesn’t happen anymore.

Hope I helped ☺️

rachel314 wrote:

Yeah, hi…can Apple please undo this “feature??” Thanks.

This is a user to user only forum. No one here works for Apple, so we cannot tell you whether Apple has any plans to change anything.

You should tell Apple what you'd like using this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Ok so we just have to crop the photo 😐, I’m starting to hate this update already

Use the link IdrisSeabright provided (the blue words).

You need to crop the images to wallpaper size, source

Did you try to use the same photo you have just cropped as wallpaper, and zoom it out?

This is actually a feature Apple added to iOS 17 to fix the way wallpapers would be formatted with pictures that are square or not in the ‘wallpaper’ shape

Anyway the IOS 17.1 didn't fix it, so it seems a feature, not one of the best, I think as we don't like it, we should keep on submitting our feedback to see if it's getting considered

yo it's fixed dudes just tap the three dots

I am having the same issue and have opened a case with Apple regarding this matter as it drives me insane. For me, if I zoom out too far or pull down on the image, the entire top half of the screen blurs. There is no option to toggle it on or off, as you would imagine doing so with the depth effect.

Dear Apple, please stop breaking things to fix them later and call them a feature. No one ever types “ducks” and the blur you added thinking it would look good, looks like a garbage. I can’t express how much I dislike apple and its garbage tactics to manipulate the users experience into being subpar. You would think they would learn after a period of a time that certain things are not good to be done, but still, Apple does it anyway. They hold out on things that the rest of the world wants and slap everyone in the face with things they think are to their benefit. It’s a trash company that needs new leadership.

That is not what we're talking about. That is an iOS 16 feature to blur the entire background. We are referring to pinching to zoom out on a photo you set as a wallpaper and only the top of the phone blurs. The entire bottom half stays as is.