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

Who in there right mind needs thousands of pictures for wallpapers?

Hmmm I dunno? Me? And everyone else in this topic? Are you telling me you have the same wallpaper since you bought your phone? I get sick of pictures quite easily and change them multiple times a week. This topic should not even exist, the apple guys are just beings lazy biotches. Fix this already you overpaid monkeys.

Thank you. Even if I wanted One picture forever...no can do...it doesn't fit! Good grief.

I beg to differ.

But i'm also not a teenage girl.

so you have only ever used 1 wallpaper in the entire life of your phone, good for you, bye now.

So... i just installed update 7.1.1 on my iPhone 5 as of April 23rd, 2014, 12:25PM, guess what, no wallpaper fix....... i have no words... atleast none that are allowed to be posted on here....

Yep, because it's a non issue. You're probably looking at third party apps bud.

And for the record I certainly have changed wallpapers on my phone, but not to a degree that large.

What do you mean it's non issue? It is a big issue for everyone who want to use a nice picture for wallpaper. It is indeed a very big part of a mobile device to snap a nice picture as please and turn it into a nice wallpaper to look at. I hope this is just an oversight or a bug or something other than by design. Otherwise I will sell it on Craigslist and buy a Samsung tablet that don't have this problem plus allowing me to send email with PDF attachment. Coming on Apple, fix the god **** problem. Samsung is closing in on you in many fronts.

I rotate my wallpaper DAILY, because it pleases me. THIS DEVICE IS AN EFFIN POS. I've traveled the world, and I expect to see my photos in the proper aspect ratio and NOT MORPHED. CAN THESE EFFIN GENUISES DO THAT? this company is so effin overrated... bunch of effin dopes.

I tried it and it worked. The important thing is to make sure to have the proper orientation. If the picture is portrait, take the screenshot in landscape, and if the picture is in landscape, take the screenshot in portrait. You might want to do it twice (take a screenshot of the screenshot) to make sure that the picture is thoroughly windowboxed.

Congratulations SteveMcQwark you got it! This worked for me too.

There's a slight loss of resolution, but the full image can now be made to fit.

As I a software engineer, this suggest to me that the OS is simply calling a wrong function somewhere (I.e. Calling a portrait photo manipulation function when it should be calling a landscape manipulation function and visa versa) -or maybe passing a photo attribute incorrectly.

With this new information, hopefully Apple will be able to fix the problem in the next release. Surely it is not intended that if you want the entire image as wallpaper that you have to first screenshot it in the other orientation!

BTW, I tried the whole set image as wallpaper thing on a friends iPad2 (that's what I have) that has NOT been upgraded to iOS7, and confirmed that it did NOT exhibit the problem. So there's no question this is a software bug in iOS7.

Kudos to SteveMcQwark. Now let's see if Apple is listening....

I should add that the resulting image isn't as sharp as the original and it's still zoomed a bit (not as much as before, but it's usable until Apple releases a true fix). The clarity and brightness seem off a bit too.

Updated iOS 7.1.1 today but still no fix. Not happy at all.

wavymitch - without stooping to your level, you have no idea what you are talking about. There are many people who enjoy looking at photos of their family, events they have recently taken part in, wedding photos, etc. on their device when first waking it up. Why do you insist on thinking that everyone who enjoys looking at photos is a teenage girl? This is a problem for those of us who were able to do just that - but due to an update designed to IMPROVE our device, actually did the opposite. We are upset, because it is a simple fix that Apple has refused to do. We spend lots of money on devices and trusted that we would be able to continue to use them in the way we did when we first purchased them. This is a consumer rights issue. The photo resizing is NOT the only issue with the updates, several of them by now.... This is an issue with a company that refuses to listen to their customers. I too, am thinking that I will just go with Samsung. I really like my Samsung phone, and each update I get makes it better and faster. Not so with Apple anymore.....sad, really.

Awesome, enjoy your samsung and photo wallpapers. 🙂