iOS 17 wallpapers blurry at top

I tried the tool on photos it worked. Didn’t realize they had the tools there inside the crop tool.

I need to explore all the new ways to work with the 17. Tools inside tools.

Thanks for the tip! @ILoveMyDog_

Yes, of course. But you are responding to my first post made on September 21st, like the day after iOS 17 was released and the subject of this thread is iOS Wallpaper, when it should have been iOS Lock Screen Wallpaper. Several pages later and more than 3 weeks, we now know this is about Lock Screen Wallpaper. Maybe check the date of a post before you decide to criticize it.

Amazing that this keeps happening without them fixing it.

I'm getting tired... I can see the quality of the products declining... the other day I had to restart the iPhone because the calling app kept closing...

I have a feeling that in a few months my iPhone might end up in a second-hand store...

It's just a wallpaper!

None of the suggestions work unfortunately, the crop/wallpaper doesn't fix the issue, the turn off blur doesn't work as well and the issue is while all the photos fit perfectly on the screen and are great wallpapers, the blurring happenes when you zoom out, not when you zoom in. So...for me it's a bug and I have already given my feedback, hopefully "To fix such issues Apple should do another stability improvement in iOS 17 in next release"

This does not work on all images, so your solution, while helpful in some situations is not a viable end all solution

It needs to be fixed by Apple as this is a very basic design flaw which is ruining almost every users iPhone experience on devices which they have paid literally hundreds if not a thousand dollars or more on.

Its garbage design and needs to be fixed immediately.

Apple: please fix this soon! At least provide an option. Whether a particular photo interferes with the time widget and battery indicator should not be your concern.

If I were designing the lockscreen, I’d make the time widget user-movable and -resizable.

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

Mad-Citizen wrote:

Fix this apple I’m sick of you trying to be “sleek” I just want a phone that doesn’t make me do what it wants. The phone is a tool we control not the other way around

This is what happens when you don't read past the first post. Had you, you'd know you aren't speaking with anyone from Apple here. This is a user to user only forum and your demand Apple fix anything won't be seen by Apple, nor acted upon.

If you want to share your thoughts with Apple, this link has also been posted over and over throughout the thread, which you can use --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

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.

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!

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.

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

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!!!