Hi I updated to iOS 17 yesterday and my wallpapers are getting blurred on the top, my wallpapers from the top seem to be fine yet but I found beautiful new wallpapers and it’s ruined because of the top blur. My phone is an iPhone 13 Pro Max.
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Figured out how to fix it on my IPhone 11. Go to settings, then Wallpaper, then do New Wallpaper…it lets you pick a photo for the wallpaper…then you can click over on the Home Screen and change it if you want. But at the very bottom right hand corner you should see a raindrop looking image that says “blur”. If you click that it removes the blur from the image.
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
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.
Completely agree with you! It is ridiculous, wall papers that look amazing are now utterly ruined because of the most recent update! Apple should at least given us the option to turn it on or off, and should get new testers as well! Cause clearly the people that approved of this need to think about the bigger picture. If what they are updating is what the community wants, how people would react to it, and thinking of the people who may want to turn that option on or off.
I am having the same problem. It auto-zooms a little into the picture, and when I try to pull out, it "extends" the picture at the top with a bad blur effect. Ruins my photo, which is intended to fit the screen exactly. I have lots of these photos, and they always worked before. SIGH
This feature must be reverted! Please address this in future updates cause nobody’s happy with it. It’s annoying and it’s another thing that blocks the freedom of customisation on our iPhones… instead of you deciding what’s best for us, let each user decides if the background is merging with the folders or not. Or, change the folder and text aspect to be visible according to the wallpaper photo we have chosen instead of blurring the photos we want to set up as wallpaper.
Me too it ruins completely the background, I think they thought that maybe u couldn’t read the time but it’s just pure nonsense.
Bruh, it’s not that, it does even in the lock screen if u zoom out and only on the top half
Idk bro still couldn’t find a way to get rid of it it’s just bs at least they should’ve added an option
Yes I will surely surely contact Apple ,thank you for your advice, but could you knowledge me on how I could contact them, as in the case a website or similar?
That’s actually potentially is the reason thanks for that and I did open a case as per the instructions
Please let us if you find a way to resolve this issue.
Thank you for your update, it does work up to Apple’s expectations but I really hope they leave it as it was in iOS 16 it just bothers me having an ugly blur
A lot of tips and replies mention a blur button. There is no blur button when clicking on Customize.
Me too. Very disappointing and frustrating. I relish in the changeable wallpapers and now I can’t find one that fits perfectly without it being blurred :(
not gonna lie y’all, upon all the ios updates this is the worst of em all cuz what’s the point of me putting up a wallpaper when it blurs whiles trying to zoom out. They better hv a solution for it.
iOS 17 wallpapers blurry at top
