When viewing photos on my iphone 4s they are zoomed in full screen and therefore cuts off the sides or top & bottom of the photo when viewing.

It happens to me too, as I imagine it does to a lot of people. It is frustrating, but I don't think there's anything you can do besides just zoom back out on each photo. I don't know why it does that though.

I don't see the problem; my photos just fill the screen. Is it possible you have Zoom on in Accessibility settings?

Hello -

half a year has gone by and this problem still exists with new iPhone 4Ss. Does anybody know if there is a solution to this problem? Even if it is only an app?

The reason I think is that the camera chip aspect ratio (3264 x 2448 pixels is 4:3) is different from the retina display aspect ratio (960 x 640 pixels). To display the entire image taken by the 8MP camera with its aspect ratio of 4:3 you would need a retina display size of 960 x 720 pixels to stay with that ratio. But since there are only 640 pixels instead of 720 available, the image will either be slimmed down by 80 pixels, or, if it shouldn't be cropped, there will be black bars at the top and/or bottom of about 108pixels worth. That means >10% of the image width or height, respectively, will not be displayed unless you pinch zoom out, in which case there will be black bars at the top and the bottom, >10% of the height of the display. The default setting seems to be that the image is cropped at the left side of the display, or at the bottom if you took a landscape picture (why not cropping symmetrically at least?).

I can't believe this went through the design stages without someone saying "you can't do this". I personally got the iPhone 4S because of the camera and the display (coming from the 3GS), hoping that I would be able to have a decent photo diary of my journeys. Somehow I expected the photos to be displayed in the same aspect ratio as the one displayed on the screen when I took them. Now I have to keep in mind that what I see is not what I'll get (on the iPhone screen). Very disturbing! Most of my pictures will remain on that device to be displayed exclusively there - is it too much to ask that, when displayed on the screen, my photos should show the same field of view as was shown on that same screen when I took the photo?

I'll be grateful for anything which might explain and improve the current situation - software update for choice of default zoom setting in photo display, app etc..

Sincerely,

Chris

Hi recently notice this problem was happen to me too! Why is this problem still not yet solve ?!

I've just been bitten by this too. Taking a photo in bright sunlight so the screen was very difficult to see to frame the shot I kept thinking I'd cut off the top of the subject. Then I realised the screen and photo aspect ratios are different and pinch zoomed and voilà all 5 or so shots were framed correctly.

Not only is this rather dumb behaviour, especially as there isn't a setting to change it, but it's inconsistent as well. In the Videos app, if you view a video with a different aspect ratio to the screen, it starts by showing the whole video with black bars but if you double-tap the screen it then zooms to fill the screen, cropping the image as necessary!

Maybe Jony Ive taking over the UI design will get this fixed!

I can't believe that this has not been fixed. Either Apple is not aware of this issue, and therefore must neither USE the photo app they make, nor read their own support forums, or they just don't care. This lack of action really suggests that apple must not care about their customers or they would be addressing this issue in any way, shape, or form.

This is one of the thing I HATE Apple for ... Another crap thing is that when you want to use a picture as background it automatically zooms in and you're not able to zoom out. Which means you can't even have a full screened pictore as your background. I do love Apple for their design and system etc., but they also have a lot of crap systems which is frustating when using your iPhone

Flazhphone wrote:

This is one of the thing I HATE Apple for ... Another crap thing is that when you want to use a picture as background it automatically zooms in and you're not able to zoom out. Which means you can't even have a full screened pictore as your background. I do love Apple for their design and system etc., but they also have a lot of crap systems which is frustating when using your iPhone

I spotted that too. It's new in iOS7. I've worked out why, it's because of the parallax effect on the Home Screen. If they allowed you to use the whole image then when it moved as you tilt the phone you'd get black borders along the edges. The zoom level is only sufficient to prevent this in the shorter direction. This causes a big problem when using landscape photos as wallpaper.

I'm having the same problem on iPhone 5. I like to shoot in 2:3 ratio and everytime I'm viewing my photos in landscape mode I have to manually zoom out to see the whole picture. I really can't understand what's the big idea behind this feature. It's annoying as ****. This is something Apple could easily address, but obviously it's not very high in their priority list. Just give us the opportunity to enjoy our photos in their original aspect ratio, without the unnecessary zooming. Please!

WOW, nearly 4 years later and still no fix!!

THANKS APPLE

Cant believe more people aren't complaining about this.

I believe this is still relevant in recent iOS releases. so this is the solution I found for photos being cut off.

When viewing a fullscreen photo that is cut off; double tap the screen to zoom in and double tap again to zoom out. The photo should now fit the screen.

Hope this solves your problem and helps anyone else who was annoyed with this.