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

Delighted I found people with the same issue and frustrations as myself re:wallpaper, more so with photos now being used on the lock screen with what seems a bigger clock and date?

Cant imagine how this issue was missed, but it does need fixing, very very frustrating.

The screenshot soloution has worked for me, for now on iphone.

I am about to try the same on ipad.

Have found IOS7 very dissapointing thus far, and rather cheap looking.

Sorry.😟

Screenshot option not working for ipad !!!!!!!😠

same problem. I'm downloading instasize. Hope they fix this. Just tedious and shouldn't be necessary to go through extra steps with an app to get it to work.

Settings-General-Accessibility-Reduce Motion (ON)

This is happening with my phone too :( I hope it will get sorted out soon cuz it's really annoying

"Market-share arogance is not an excuse for bad software"

I totally agree with you.

I've been bashing my head against this bug since I noticed it this morning. Filled out feedback to Apple, for all the good that does - it feels like a shot in the dark. So I've been toying around with some of my old wallpapers and even when the wallpaper is 320x480 my iPad 3 just makes it a blurry impossible mess. So I hit image.google.com and found a refreshed version of a particular wallpaper of mine and found a version that was 1280x1980. I tried that and the same mess, with or without turning the motion off.

So I figure, small images or big images all have this issue. So size of image isn't the right thing to think about. What is the correct thing is adjusting the canvas size. I opened up a new tab, went to Pixlr.com, uploaded my 1280x1980 image and then went to Image, then Canvas Size, I changed the anchor to the center square and set the new canvas to 2448 by 2448, yes, square, WTH. Then saved the image and then used iMessage as a mule to get it from my iMac to my iPad.

That worked just fine! I lost a little at the bottom, so that's what the square canvas size does, there is likely a "magic number" for the height but I couldn't find anyone who had a better number than 2448.

It's a pain to have to haul all your images back and forth, but at least for the iPad 3, this works. Works for me. Even with the motion bits left on. YMMV. Good luck!

It is a BUG!

Where an image originated from the device or a similar device, ipad/iphone, then no other software should be required to fix this.

Its very poor IMO that I cannot display photos that I have taken as the lock screen with suitable banners for the clock text and swipe text as was the case prior to IOS7.

I fail to see how this is an enhancement.

!!! Solution !!!

Eastern European way, it is simple but not sophisticated at all. Still it remains an annoying bug.

Steps:

- Open Keynotes

- Open a black presentation

- Insert your selected photo to a slide of black background

- Resize you picture on the slide so as to leave a black frame around the image, this frame will be 'out-zoomed', so try to size your pics approximately according to that

- Press play (right-up corner)

- Make screenshot (home button + on/off button at same time) of your Keynote slide

- Go to your Photos Camera Roll

- Insert your newly made photo

Will take a few tries till you learn how much blackframe you need to leave around the picture when resizing it in keynoter. BTW I tried iPhoto too it didn't help at all.

Hope it helps...

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not but I have spent some time calculating the exact dimensions needed to create a wallpaper that doesnt crop or stretch at all!

The dimensions are as follows:

iPad Retina - Width = 2360, Height = 2524

iPhone 5 - Width = 744, Height = 1392

Here are some links to some test images I created, they should be 100% accurate and you can use them as templates to create your own if needed. When these images are set as wallpapers on the correct devices, there will be a solid black background with a thin white border that defines the edges of the viewport, then the bleed area area is a solid grey colour. Hope you like!!

iPhone 5 - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27436727/iPhone5_Diagram.jpg

iPad Retina - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27436727/IpadRetina_Diagram.jpg

Ed

i found a way to fix this!

just take a screenshot of your desired picture and when you want to set it as a wallpaper it will appear with the black lines around the picture and then you can zoom in or zoom out to how you want it.

hope this helped

Any idea what the dimensions for the 4s would be?

I don't have a 4S to hand so I couldn't test the sizes but I would hazard a guess that it would just be shorter than the 5 by 176 pixels so give these dimensions a try:

Width = 744, Height = 1216

Let me know if it works and I'll create another template for people with a 4S to use

Ed

As others have recommended, the Instasize app is a quick, free, and elegant work-around for the time being. No thinking involved about sizes, ratios, or pixels. It works so well, that I'm not miffed any more about this bug. On to more important issues -- like battery management !