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

To solve this problem just find the photo you want to use as your wallpaper, then click edit - crop - aspect ratio then click square and save it. Then set it as your wallpaper!! Your Welcome

I found an extremely easy way to do it that's too easy to be true, but it worked for all of the ones I tried and should work on any iOS7 device. First go to the photo album or wherever you have the pic you want to make a wallpaper of. Once you select the pic you want, turn the device sideways, adjust the pic how you want it, take a scren shot (make sure you clear the crap around it first), rotate it back, then go into your settings and apply that item from your device's photo album. The pic will be small enough to fit into the screen, and by rotating it sideways when you took the screen shot you took care of the bleedover so it actually fits. I've done this with a bunch of photos and it worked every time.

Hope this helps everyone.

spi600 and all,

reading all these work-arounds.....do you realize that for every picture you want to use for a wall paper, you will be storing two pictures? So let's see how this looks.

1. Download picture

2. Save and organize into folder/album/event/share(iCloud)

3. Do one of many available solutions

4. Save and organize into folder/album/event/share(iCloud)

How many versions of one picture do we need? In prior versions of iOS, one. With iOS7, at least two.

I have 7.0.4 on iPad 4. This post is one of the better fixes I've tried. Turning on reduce motion helped but it's still not perfect. I took a screen shot of my home screen, then set it as the background.

Doing this I could see what method worked the best.

Besides just playing with my ipad settings, the only other option that does work perfect on my ipad is the free app instafix. Which was suggested by another person a few posts back. I just downloaded it and I find it to work just fine for me.

Hello all! This fixed it for me: http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-stop-automatic-wallpaper-resize-and-zoom-in-ios -7/

This shows the fix to be in settings, accessibility options: I can't remember all the steps precisely, there aren't many though. I'm shocked by how simple this is, after all this time the too-large wallpaper has been driving me batty!

Merry New Year!

"You can turn this thing off by going to Settings → General → Accessibility → Reduce Motion → and turning ON the Reduce Motion switch". -- I pulled this from the link I provide, above.

The only solution for now is download Resizer from App Store then wait till they fix that bug!

This should be (and was not very long ago) so easy.

This is my take ...

Apple is determined to take away as much control from the end user as possible.

And in this Apple shows one of its principle characteristics (which incidentally traces its origin back to the company's founder), i.e., HUBRIS.

Thanks! It helps on the square photos :))

I called Apple about this and I was told it is a feature. So in other words they did this intentionally! And they are not going to fix it. They don't consider it broken.

There is a aricle on idownloadblog.com today:

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/01/04/wallpaper-fix/

Had the same issues, so I finally bought the app. Works now... Not happy about buying an app though!

What controls have they taken from users?

Aloha Onesam

Thanks for the link

Add a small change to the workaround

Set option to reduce motion off as in the link

Set wall paper as normal - size / scale / position - give yourself some room for the shifting of the image

Go back to ipad settings and turn off the reduce motion

You should have the wallpaper you want and the motion shifting should be back ... Work on mine cool deal

Give it a go

Mahalo's

C

I have tried this. Again. Just now before writing this, and It does not work. It does not work for every photo, ios7 just does not allow photo resizing to work as it used to. I have been using the same photo I had resized in a couple of seconds on ios6. When you spend this much money on a device, the manufacturers of the device should not take away a feature that you need and replace it with one you don't want. In this case, is just not acceptable to have to use a "work around" or an app for a feature that is standard on ALL devices, including my android phone.