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

After update, wallpaper stretchs larger than image. Unable to resize smaller to fit screen. My photo only measures 24k @ 261x231 and is HUGE; bigger than the screen can accommodatem (shrink). Cannot resize smaller to fit screen. Any ideas/suggestions? I have tried resizing my photo (smaller crop in size and dimensions) and photos render too large for screen. Cannot resize smaller to fit. I know I am repeating myself. Just to be clear. Am I doing something incorrectly in IOS 7? Any ideas/suggestions or similar problems solving input would be appreciated.

Posted on Sep 18, 2013 12:04 PM

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Posted on Nov 12, 2017 10:25 AM

No true Apple user cares about work arounds. We are talking here about errors in Apple programming that has been there simce the release of iOS 7.0, years ago.


This is about the disconnect at Apple with their own programming.

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Mar 11, 2014 8:47 PM in response to meegsmck

How about this idea?


Camera roll>select image>set image as background ... The operating system automatically jumps through all the hoops (instead of us all having to manually do it) then saves the image to the background.


You know, like it use to work in IOS 6.


Several third party apps have figured this out, but apparently it's too tough for the folks at apple.


It really is hard to believe apple hasn't fixed this.

Mar 11, 2014 9:41 PM in response to BucknB

Okay guys, posting on here alone is not going to change the problem. We ALL need to go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html and log in the complaints we have as many times as possible, and get as many people as we can to do the same thing. Apple does not read the things in this forum, they only read what is posted in the feedbacks. Apple claims to be all about pleasing their customers and giving the users what they want, well they are missing that mark big time. So lets all go throw so much feedback at them that they have to listen to us!

Mar 12, 2014 5:56 PM in response to lazaruspits216

I never imagined that the zooming out problem would actually get worse with the upgrade to IOS 7.1 but it has !

iPhones however seem to be managing better with this ongoing problem than iPads.

The wallpaper resize issue has certainly not been fixed for iPads

The Reduce Motion on and the Screenshot fix does not work for iPads

None of my previous wallpaper fixes work now at all because the zooming out is now so much worse with IOS 7.1 than it was before my upgrade.

I can't use any of my previous edited wallpapers because they now look so awfully enlarged.

I have been fiddlling around with Photoshop this morning and have come up with a canvas ratio that is now acceptable to me.

My basic screen resolution for my iPad Mini is 1024 x 768 px Check your model for your screen size as it will be different to my iPad Mini

I have increased my canvas size by 600 px on each side of a picture ie 1624 x 1368 px

The resulting image doesn't look too bad now on my iPad Mini

Clearly this problem is either quite beyond Apples capabilities to fix or they simply doen't give a toss about their customers

Mar 14, 2014 12:40 PM in response to BucknB

Here's the quick fix:


1) Go to the picture that you would like to set as your background.

2) Pinch screen and take a screen shot (home button and sleep button). This step can be a little cumbersome, as it requires four fingers, but it is doable.


3) Now that we've artificially inflated the size of the boarder we can scale the immage to the desired size.


4) Set the new image as a wall paper, move and scale it to the desired parameters (this may take a couple of tries), and you're good to go.


Hack on,


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Mar 15, 2014 8:46 AM in response to Apples52

Hi. I'm back, and more polite than ever...


Have been keeping an eye on this issue, so it was with some dread that I saw iOS 7.1 drop into my Settings menu. Unsure as to whether to commit to it, I sought the advice of the dev of one of the earlier fixes. He feels that if you're an iPhone user then you're good to go, and if an iPad portrait user then it's not too bad. If, however, you use your iPad exclusively in landscape- as I and others (if you're out there Violetskye, hi!) do- then you are, as the saying goes, affixed by an inclined helical plane.


So iOS 7.1 sits in my Settings, like a malevolent spider, and there it will stay. And I would advise any other iPad landscape users out there to do the same. Oh, and keep up the pressure on Apple to do something about it, or we'll all be waiting until iOS 8 for a proper fix.

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