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

Take a screenshot of the picture you want to use and then use that new screenshot for your wallpaper. Super annoying I know!!! Also make sure to tap the picture before you screenshot it to get the black background. It's not perfect but hope it helps a little.

Select a photo for your wallpaper.

Then zoom out on it but not the whole way and screen shot it.

Then on that new photo, use it as wallpaper and zoom in as necessary.

Works for me and i've been doing it for a while now.

Actually, Tim Cook seems to be having the best time of his life by experimenting with the 'products' of the world's most valuable company. Afterall he never got a chance to do stupid things , when Jobs was at the helm. Moreover, things like the ridiculous tinkering with the wallpaper, foolish overhauling of apps like iOS 7's iBook app etc are just the beginning. Well, When a hardware (industrial) designer aka 'Johny Ive' is chosen to be the SVP of Software User Interface Design (They call it 'Human Interface'.), that's when these things happen. The day 'Scot Frostall' (The original Chief of OSX & iOS) was fired and replaced by Johny Ive; Apple started on the same path that it took in 1985 by firing Steve Jobs, and ultimately ending up almost ruined & just 90 days away from bankruptcy. Scot Frostall was once the VP of software at NEXT (With Jobs himself) and he was the one who pioneered the revolutionary OSX (Although the name OSX was given later on), working on it for years, with his team of dedicated computer engineers & Scientists. Later, he was the one to come up with iOS, which dispupted the mobile world in just a few years. And then, suddenly one day, this genius Software pioneer, is fired & replaced by an 'Industrial Designer' (Johny Ive), who had never ever worked on a single software design project throughout his entire life! No one, but a guy like Tim Cook (Who pioneered the retail department & Executed Apple's retail chain business; and thus himself has only a little idea of User Interface & Software Design ) can actually put 'Johny Ive' in-charge of Apple's Software Design. But, what was supposedly worse, came out to be the 'un-appologetically Plastic-iPhone C' which is the result of Johny's arrogant & ridiculous experimentation with what he used to be good at, 'Hardware Design'. And, I am afraid, this only seems to be the starting of things, that is bound to come in the next few release cycles. Apple, which once pioneered innovative technology, is now only following & thus blatently copying the other guys in the industry like Google's Android. And, its difficult to believe that this will change in future.(Specially in the absence of Steve Jobs). I have always loved Apple and its Company Culture of Thinking & Doing DIFFERENT! But, that's no more relavant today! I just pray that they don't come up with another new iPad, in plastic, called iPad C! RIP Steve Jobs!!

once again.....Jobs wanted to make the experience with his devices and operating systems simple. S I M P L E! If you read all the posts here, what you really hear is that something that was simple is now complex. In order to accomplish something that was in prior versions of iOS, now you have to add and app, or change a picture in whatever in order to use it in iOS 7 as a wallpaper. Simple, made complicated, and that is that.

Apple lost it!

I agree (again) with HBMuscleETC. What used to work flawlessly now doesn't work at all. When you need to turn to an app or a workaround to fix something that is so obviously wrong....thing's just aren't right. Cupertino, we have a problem.

Thank you! It seems to work. Still do not understand why Apple took away the orig way to use photos for screensaver. Regards DrCarnac

I just want to say it's so sad to presume to be a great company *APPLE!* when really just a small mistake on iphones and the ipad can't be fixed. There are a lot of people who read and write in the Apple support forums, here, for example, there are 46 pages all talking about the same little problem. That means Apple doesn't have any idea of how to fix it. I think it's time for the Apple folks to sit down and think about what's happening... for the customers who have loved Apple products but are now abandoning them for other companies. A bunch of insignificant problems can spell disaster for a company. "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works " Steve Jobs ( old comment )

For those still wondering what the heck has happened to our beloved Apple ISO, here is the place to start:

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ousted-scott-forstall-a-year-ago-today-2013 -10

Apparently, Jony Ive is in charge now and is the person behind this debacle called ISO7.

For sure, Forstall deserves it for his maps. )

I wouldnt idealize steve jobs era,there were failures much worse than this during his reign.

Here's another article for your perusal. I don't believe there will be an "update" to fix what we consider "bugs" because the things we are upset about are not considered "bugs" by Apple. The IOS was designed this way!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/09/19/apple-jony-ive-craig-federighi/283 4575/

Everyone can quit saying that it was designed to do this. We get that it is related to the upgrades in ios. That doesn't mean there won't be something added in the future to make it work correctly for users. They can easily incorporate a landscape and portrait version of wallpaper photos to allow for the pictures to appear correctly in later versions. I don't think they will just remove the feature that created the problem though. The more people that complain about it to Apple, the sooner a fix will come through to fix the design flaw.

I have given up hope on this issue. Since my iPhone 4s is out of warranty anyway, I may try to jail break it to go back to ISO6. Read the article. The guy they put in charge of software designed ISO7 to look and feel the way it does, and Apple is not going to change it. They expect us to "evolve" with the software and adapt to it.

Your argument is based on nothing ever changing with the operating system. In and of itself, that makes no sense. In addition, the article doesn't discuss this or any particular issue specifically. To say that they won't fix it is going against everything that has ever happened in technology history.

What I am saying is that they will not go back to the look and feel of ISO6. Of course they will "improve" on ISO7, but Apple has moved on from the ISO we were familiar with and they will not go back. Sadly, this iteration of the operating system looks too much like Windows to me, I am disappointed, but at least I now know why this change took place.

Okay. The sentiment here in general is centered around this one issue, not the entire operating system. It's not a performance issue, but it's like having a restaurant that serves great food that is dirty and broken down. It makes you not want treat there. They can and will fix it. It is just a matter of when. They had better do it soon to avoid ticking off too many loyal customers.