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

Yeah, still can't move or scale even doing it through photos. This really bites. Why release an iOS that is so buggy... you'd think this was a microsoft product. 😉

Seriously hope they send out a fix for this soon, I like to change wallpapers, especially during the upcoming holidays.

Okay, are you guys ready for a temporary fix?

The issue is the photos your trying to apply as a wallpaper were not configured to the same resolution that IOS 7 works with. The fix that worked for me was to take a screenshot of the photo I wanted to set as my wallpaper, then use the screenshot to apply the wallpaper. Its the same photo, but has the new resolution that IOS 7 allows.

Hope this helps!

I actually don't think it's a bug, because you need to have some bleed area outside the viewport or when you see the parallax effect you will see black around the image. When you set the background it automatically fits the image to the edges of the bleed area at the top and bottom. The reason why it is worse on the iPad when setting the wallpaper is because you need a lot more bleed area on the width because you reveal more of the image when you turn it into landscape mode, this leads to more of the image being cropped (unless you have a perfectly sized bleed area 😉).

Just seen Trekkmom's post. I think the only bug is when you are setting the wallpaper it's realy laggy to move and scale, but with my method you dont have to!

Ah, you posted just before me! I posted this in the ipad one accidently earlier, lol. Glad someone else thought of it too!

I couldn't agree with you more. I am so completely disappointed by iOS 7. I resent Apple for "fixing" something that wasn't broken in the first place. What I considered my iPad is no longer there. Here's to the obsession that new is always better 😮 I regret updating my iPad so much. There must be a way to restore previous OS, right?

Agreed and there is a huge big with it because it says on the bottom of the screen to move and scale however it actually doesn't do either of those things. Wasn't the point of the beta version to gain feedback and iron out these bugs??? What did the developers do? Did the not use their phone since June?

Actually, it's not strictly a bug (although it can be done better). Think that the wallpaper is going to be used both in vertical and landscape orientations, so if you set a landscape photo as the wallpaper, then, as iOS knows its correct position is horizontal, it will match the photo's height with iPad's longest side (vertical mode is the default mode), cropping the sides. Then, when you turn it to landscape mode, it uses the width of the vertical wallpaper and crops the top and the bottom, resulting in an always zoomed-in photo. That's what is happening.

Not considering the parallax feature (wich requires an extra frame), if you want your landscape photo to be exactly fitted in iPad (and don't mind two bands up and down when you switch to vertical mode), you need to set the photo's width to the longest side's pixel number and then add top and bottom bands (say black) in order to get a square photo. For example, in my iPad 2, 1024 x 1024 px, and you get what you want. Of course, this is the smallest photo to fit without losing image quality; you can always use bigger ones, as long as they have this aspect ratio.

I don't understand the lack of an option to configure whether you want your photo to be fitted vertically or horizontally, and then cropped consequently when switching to the other mode. That would be nice.

This is ridiculous and a waste of time. Can't help but wonder what else has been tempered with that seemed to work just fine in iOS 6!

I haven't read thru the entire thread here (so maybe someone else has already mentioned this same "fix")... but I was able to get my wallpaper to fit my iPad mini correctly, without too much of a problem.

I have Adobe PSTouch, so created a new image file with the pixel ratios shown below (for the mini) then inserted the photo I wanted to use into that new, correctly-sized image, saved it out to my camera role and set it as the wallpaper.

iPad 2 and iPad mini: 1,424 x 1,424

iPad 3 and iPad 4: 2,448 x 2,448

iPhone 4S: 1,360 x 1,040

iPhone 5: 1,536 x 1,040

Use whichever ratio corresponds to your device. Hope this helps someone else...

<edited to add> If you have a vertical or horizontal picture/photo/image, you will either end up with a "letterbox" effect, much like the look of a widescreen movie on an older, standard television screen, or your photo will need to be cropped. I wanted the "letterbox" effect, so I just made the bottom layer of my PSTouch image a solid color (darker color) from the photo (my photo is vertical) and the "side bars" of the square image don't even show up on my final wallpaper.

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The free app Instasize is perfect for now as a workaround. Install the app, acess your photos and shrink the photo. Then acess wallpapers and select your photo then increase size to fit with scaling! works great! Good call by the first poster of this app. suggestion. Thanks!

Thank you doctorLAW!

This worked

Found ios7 on iphone disappointing but on ipad it's 10 times worse.

Sorry.

Like a lot of other people, in other discussions, I'm annoyed by this. You would have thought Apple would have realized people used custom wallpaper!

I am having the same issue with the iPhone 5. My wallpaper is now too big for my screen. Very frustrating.

Settings-General-Accessibility-Reduce Motion (turn ON)

this one worked on me, hope to you too.