IOS 7 wallpaper resizing will not shrink photo to fit screen...

I tired it.. and IT WORKED!!! still think apple should fix this big through becuase my pictures could be a better quality. but for now this will have todo

37 pages of people trying to do this. What happened to "it just works" Apple?

I found out how to fix the wallpaper sizing problem. Go to Settings>General>Accessibility>Reduce Motion and turn it on. This removes the amount of movement that the wallpaper moves when tilting the ipad. This allows you to adjust the size of your wallpaper easily without it having automatically zoom in on you. Since the wallpaper will move less it allows you to resize.

This was probably happening to avoid showing the black background around the wallpaper when tilting a lot. Anyways hope that helps! :)

That's what I did and it's worked for me with all different sizes of files/pics with no problems. Just the way it was before the update, but it obviously hasn't worked for everyone and I'm not sure why.

This will not solve your problem, but it will enable you to make the picture fit in your wallpaper. Download the app: squaready. Once downloaded, open it and open the photo you want to resize. Use your fingers to make the photo smaller and put it in the center, and on your left bottom, you can choose the color of the background of the remained area. Save it on your Album. Now go and put it as a Wallpaper. 🙂

I just don't understand why people are using all of these complicated fixes such as downloading apps to resize the image etc. etc. Just go into your image in Photos, zoom it to the required level, tap the screen once to make the white borders go away, and take a screenshot. Problem solved. -_-

Does not work on my iPad 3rd Gen with IOS7. Only thing that works for me is as I outlined a few posts back.

Same problem! I have tried to turn off the parallax effect, screen shot n save to my photo, yet it's the same problem! Anyone have any other idea???

It absolutely amazes me that after 38 pages of this discussion, there are still people chipping in every so often to suggest that turning OFF the parallax effect solves the problem. It does NOT! sure, the effect is much less pronounced but any wallpaper you set is still zoomed in such that you lose the edges of your original image.

The workarounds, might be useful to know, but they're workarounds ... for something as absolutely basic as setting a wallpaper so that the wallpaper displays the image you want, as it should look - there should be no need for anybody to have to resort to any kind of workaround.

It's obvious, what may work for one, doesn't work for everyone. What I've suggested, hasn't worked for most on here, but has definitely worked for me. No work arounds other than turning on the reduced motion. Since doing so, I have had no problems with any of my pictures. Big or small. Works just as it did before the big update.

I thank you for this "work around." It worked, but please Apple - fix this issue!

Well, I bought an iPad air to update from my iPad 1 but what do I find....... I can't even set my wallpaper properly as with my original iPad. If this is what progress looks like then I don't think I will bother in future.

This is my little work around

Go to the photo and open it. This will display the photo in the correct aspect for the screen.

Take a snap shot of the screen.

Use this new photo for your lock screen

no way did it help either in ipod touch or ipad. What to do next???

Buy a Samsung? lol

The only other option is to edit your desired photo's dimentions and pray that Apple fixes this issue in the next patch.