iOS 17 wallpapers blurry at top

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.

I just noticed @dagodinez posted a similar solution. Rather than cropping it to fit the screen…in edit mode, I selected crop, then tapped on the image on the top right that gives you the option for original, Freeform, square, wallpaper, and different ratios. I chose wallpaper and it filled my screen. Then I saved it in Wallpaper. Theres no blur. 😊

I’m having the same issue as well. It’s super annoying. On 15 Pro Max I had the same wallpaper as my previous phone and it looked fine. Then I decided to do a photo shuffle instead and 60% of the pictures are wildly zoomed in, so I zoom them out and lose 30% of the photo to blur.

I have three custom photo wallpapers. 2 of them went half blurry at the top. One didn’t. Idk the difference why one stays clear and the other 2 are messed up with the half blurry. It was fine until I dropped down the notifications then they never went back to normal

iPhone 11

Maybe it's in the next IOS update. I really don't understand the point of it, why would you spend time to implement that feature and how come someone had the idea of introducing it, unless there's something I'm missing like a technical reason, otherwise I don't know

Hey! I hate this issue so much but the best fix i have found is to use the crop feature inbuilt to photos and resize the image to “wallpaper”, then use that as wallpaper and pinch to zoom out. The top will blur, but when you let go it will fling back perfectly centred with no top blur. Hope this helpsss

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.

The only “fix” or loophole I’ve been able to find is going into my camera roll, clicking on the image I want as a wallpaper, zooming the image to fill the screen however I like and screenshotting it. Then using that screenshot as the wallpaper; toodles to the blur.

There’s a cropping feature that will crop your photo to be exactly the size for wallpapers. But it doesn’t help if you’re using the photo shuffle feature for your wallpapers. The wallpapers still get awkwardly zoomed in and if you try to manually fix them, the blurring thing still happens

I have the iphone 15 pro max. The top half of my lock screen is blurred. There is no option to adjust or remove the blur when you go to the customize option in the bottom right hand side. It only gives me the option to view from my photo library. This is beyond frustrating. I wish I had never upgraded. If they can't fix this, I definitely going to switch to Android. I absolutely don't want to but this is beyond stupid.

misscatlover wrote:

Apple, this feature is so freaking annoying!!! i want to be able to see my whole wallpaper and this new feature makes it impossible for it to look good or aesthetic. i either have to zoom in so close that the image is blurry and cuts out the best parts, or i have to have this hideous blur at the top that also cuts out the best parts. PLEASE change this or at least make it an option to turn it on and off. i swear you guys always add these nonsense features that don’t make any sense. ever heard of the saying “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke”?????? please fix this. it makes me wish i never updated my phone to ios 17. from the looks of it, many other people hate the feature too. give the people what they want!

You aren't speaking to Apple on this user to user only forum. Use the link 100clicks provided if you want to share your thoughts with Apple.

Angelfaye wrote:

Why would we schedule an appointment at the Apple genius bar for something that’s clearly a software issue please stop spamming the chat

Well you wouldn't. But then you are responding to a post I made more than a month ago, when iOS 17 was just released and we didn't all know this was a new feature of iOS 17. If there was a way to change what I wrote back then, I would, but there isn't. Perhaps look at the date of the posts you're responding to, before replying.

I found a temporary fix for this until Apple sorts it out. I go onto the picture in my gallery that I want as my wallpaper, and I zoom on it until it’s roughly the same size / dimensions as the iPhone wallpaper size and take a screenshot. Then use the screenshot as your wallpaper and it doesn’t blur the top. You can still retain more of the width of the photo this way you just have to position it where you want when it comes to setting it as your wallpaper.

This video provides the solution: https://youtu.be/3vzIRXe55V8?si=R9GKP9hOspeIY2dt. The wallpaper only blurs if you try to crop it. So first you need to crop the photo to the aspect ration you want before opening up the photo in wallpaper settings.