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

I know how to fix this guys. And yes it has something to do with the parallax effects. What you are going to do is:

1. Go to 'Settings'

2. Go to 'General'

3. Then 'Accessibility'

4. Look for 'Reduce Motion'

5. TURN IT "ON"

And you're good to go :) hope i can help..

Try this to fix it...

go to your camera roll and tap on the picture you want to use. The picture should appear with white borders around it. Tap it once more and the picture will appear with a black background. Press your home button (the circle key on the bottom of the physical phone) and the power button (on the top right of the physical phone) at the same time. This takes a picture of the screen.

Now you can set your wallpaper with the new picture either by going into settings and choosing the picture etc. or go into your camera roll, choose the new picture and then tap the up arrow with the box icon in blue in the bottom left corner of the screen. There will be two rows of icons, scroll right to left on the bottom set of icons (there are no colours on the icons on that row) and choose the one "use as wallpaper". The picture should fit the screen and you should even be able to scale it bigger... if you wanted it that way.

It worked for me so hope it works for you!

An Apple a day....

Using the two-button screenshot approach as a workaround for this problem worked for me.

Sometime the low tech creative route is the best.

"Apple Pi Squared" thank you fot helping me think outside the box and solving this problem!!!!!

JUST PRESS THE PHOTO SO THE SURROUNDINGS GO BLACK THEN SCREENSHOT IT THEN SET THE SCREENSHOT AS THE BACKROUND WORKS FOR SURE !!!!!!

Glad it worked for you "BillHahn"!!

Enjoy fitting any picture to your screen.

...When life gives you applesauce... make crepes

Apple has finally acknowledged the issue (indirectly) with a fix in the latest beta build of iOS 7.1, which adds an option directly above "cancel" and "set" when setting new wallpapers to turn "motion" either on or off just for the wallpaper.

If you still have the parallax effect on (i.e. "Reduce Motion" disabled), it will still apply to the app icons and such, but not the wallpaper behind them. It also fixes the auto zoom issue when cropping.

There's rumors that the new iOS 7.1 will hit the public in March, so everyone here just has to hold tight for a few more months and they'll be no need for any third-party apps or screenshotting tricks. Unless they get stupid and ditch this option in the final build (which could happen knowing them).

You can see more about the new wallpaper settings in iOS 7.1 here.

There is a free app called "background optimizer"

It may be a little tricky to get right at first but the trick is to make the image smaller than the screen so that once saved you are able to zoom it in so it fits the screen.

Make sure that when you save the image the 'reduce motion' is off within the app, and if it asks turn on the allowance to get to your camera roll.

Then go into your camera roll and use the saved image, all you should have to do (all i have had to do) is zoom the image in so that it fits the size of the screen.

Once you get used to it, it becomes quick and easy.

Hope this helps 🙂

Celine Tovey

This worked fianlly! Thank you! Went to the pic in the photo album. Tapped it once to just show the pic and not the camera roll, edit, pic # etc. Then took the screen shot and set it as the wallpaper. 🙂

I'm the exact same, I wanted to have a photo of me and my partner on my home screen but when i do it cuts both of us out. It's extremely frustrating when you're unable to resize the imagine.

It needs sorting, and fast!

SOLUTION-FIND THE PHOTO YOU WANT TO USE IN YOUR GALLERY CLICK IT MAKE SURE YOU CAN SEE THE TIME AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN THEN PRESS THE LOCK AND HOME BUTTON TO SCREEN SHOT IT WILL 100% WORK IT DID FOR ME:)

I wonder why the screen shot fix seems to work for iPhones but not for iPads

I can't test it on my iPhone because I am refusing to upgrade to version 7 - I made that mistake with my iPad !

Sadly the screen shot fix doesn't work on my iPad

There is a free app called "background optimizer"

It may be a little tricky to get right at first but the trick is to make the image smaller than the screen so that once saved you are able to zoom it in so it fits the screen.

Make sure that when you save the image the 'reduce motion' is off within the app, and if it asks turn on the allowance to get to your camera roll.

Then go into your camera roll and use the saved image, all you should have to do (all i have had to do) is zoom the image in so that it fits the size of the screen.

Once you get used to it, it becomes quick and easy.

Hope this helps

Celine Tovey

The best way until apple resolves this issue is to use the age old technique of the K.I.S.S. method.

1. Screen shot the original image

2. Turn your device 90°

3. Screen shot that image

4. Go to the new smaller image in camera roll

(you will notice the picture getting smaller and the black boarders getting thicker)

5. Repeat steps 2 & 3.

6. Now use that smaller image as your wallpaper/homescreen.

BAM!! Works a treat!!

This actually worked!!!! Thank You!

I inserted my picture in Publisher. Made it smaller and in the center. Adding a Black Backgroud, then saving it as a jpeg.

To get pictures as your wallpaper that are already iphone 5 formatted to not zoom in. Go to settings and turn on "reduce motion"