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

Pretty easy workaround (for iPhone 4S at least) that should get you close.

1. Open Photos app
2. From photos grid, touch the photo once that you want to use as wallpaper
3. Touch it again to make background black instead of white
4. Press Power & Home button at same time to screen capture it
5. Go to Wallpaper settings and select new created photo that will have black bars above and below.

That worked. Thanks Kristin. :)

Try Reducing motion. It worked for me. Say bye bye to 3D effects though. Go to Settings - General - Accessibility - turn ON REDUCE MOTION

Turning on reduce motion supposedly helps with the battery life too. I don't know if it's happening to everyone but my battery is draining faster since I upgraded to IOS7. Even if it's just sitting there. Somehow, the battery goes down 1% every few minutes, even if you're not using it. It didn't use to do that in the IOS6. I can leave it all night at 100%, look at it in the morning and it would still be 100%. Hopefully the "Reduce Motion" might help with the problem with the IOS7.

Instasize (free app) worked fine and it was very easy.

I still want a fix so that this is not necessary.

this is my solution that requires both hands of many fingers. with one hand, you use two fingers to zoom a picture so it looks smaller than it would regularly on your screen. then you use your other hand and two fingers and take a screen shot of it; while your other hand and two fingers are zooming the picture so its smaller. see picture below. then you can use that screen shot to make it as your lock screen or home screen by zooming in on it. took me couple tries. but seriously it should NOT be too difficult...smh ios 7!

I appreciate everyone offering turning on "reduce motion", but that has no impact on not being abler rescale the larger picture down for wallpaper. This is an obvious bug since it says "move and rescale" on the screen but doesn't allow either.

I had the same problem with the sizing issue on my iPhone 5 after the upgrade. Used instasize and it worked on a few images, Still playing with it though. I know there is an update breaking soon for a security bug, hopefully it will have a fix for this issue. Otherwise I'm pleased with iOS7 over all

Either this is a bug or it is pitiful implementation. The settings parameters are "move and scale". You can move the image but you cannot scale it. So it is a bug or it is garbage. I suspect bug.

The fact that creative workarounds exist does not mean it isn't a bug. And quite frankly, the reason I've been an Apple user since the Apple IIe is that Apple rarely expects me to discover and delight in work arounds. And while I appreciate the work around efforts that others have made ( I used the screen shot workaround) I don't expect to need workarounds in Apple's latest, greatest iOS.

Apple worries me lately.

Hi, I don't normally comment on things like this but I got so frustrated with this issue and then I found a solution. Forgive me if someone else has already mentioned this.

First, go to the photo you want to set as a wallpaper in Photos. Then press edit, then rotate the image and take a screen shot. Then go to the screen shot photo and press edit and rotate again. Then take another screen shot and the photo will be perfectly in the middle. Lastly you can now set it as a wallpaper and enlarge it to fit the whole screen perfectly. Worked for me on an ipad mini. Hope this helps but I'm very annoyed that resorting to this is necessary. Once again, if this issue has been solved I'm sorry to if I haven't been paying attention.

One more thing, you'll have to turn reduce motion on, frankly it's only worth having on if you use the dynamic skins.

Okay guys I have a solution just till they fix the bug!! If you pinch your photo smaller then take a screenshot then it will be a smaller photo. Then when you go to put it as a background it will fit and dont worry about the bottom because it will be covered by the blurry bottom. Reply back if any questions!!

This is 100% bug, I am wondering why some users suggest to "work around". this is shame of apple, as this wallpaper setting area should have been tested! you are tell how careless of the developer work...😠

Even Apple fix this soon or later, I won't forgive that, this is a basic functionility!

Okay this is what you are going to do .. It DID work for me

1- go to the picture you want

2- turn your phone over so the picture can flip for this you obviously need to have your portrait orientation lock off so the imagine can turn.

3- once you flip the image take a screen shot of it

4- go to your pictures & click the screen shot

5- then you are going to click edit at the top right hand side corner

6- take a screen shot of that without editing anything

7 - go to ur pictures click on that screen shot

8- click set as wallpaper & move it around however you want

I'm having the same problem. It has nothing to do with the parrallex effect since mines been OFF all along. It just happened tonight after upgrading to IOS7 :((( before that It always worked fine. Absolutely can not re-scale. Very frustrating.