How to stop automatic resizing of lock screen wallpaper?

Wallpaper and the "now-ugly icons" that "shake a little" are aesthetics and not functions.

Could Apple have done a better job at implementing how custom wallpapers are displayed? Sure they could have, no doubt. QA fail? Maybe but as I said, those of us who use our devices as something more that a reallly expensive digital photo frame find it to be a minor annoyance compared to the functionality gained. I say minor annoyance because the wallpaper is hidden behind all your icons on the home screen and is frosted over as soon as you receive a notification on your lock screen. This is hardly a deal breaker for me. Sorry you disagree.

If the wallpaper is set to the proper dimensions for the phone then turning on Reduce Motion will allow it to fit as designed. Setting a landscape photo simply will not work without zooming. This may or may not change in upcoming updates.

Ha, what improved functionality?? There is none!!

Really?!?!?!

Here are a few things you missed:

Control Center

• A unified screen to quickly access toggles and controls for system settings and services, and for using AirDrop and AirPlay.
• System wide, accessible by swiping upward from the bottom of the screen.
• Accessible in the lock screen.
• Flashlight (device-specific features that come with physical camera) toggle button.
• Landscape support.
• A grabber in full screen apps.
• Mute/silent toggle button in iPad.

iOS in the Car

• Providing iOS control to in-car control systems on some car models by selected vendors from 2014.
• Includes Siri integration (eyes-free/hands-free modes), satellite navigation, telephony, music, and iMessage integration.

AirDrop

• Integrates Apple's ad-hoc Wi-Fi sharing feature AirDrop.
• Alert view, for receive invitation from other devices, option to accept/cancel.
• Options to set discoverable: Off/Contacts only/Everyone.

Inter-app Audio

• Register audio streams to share with other apps.
• Provides for MIDI control of audio rendering, remotely launching other registered Inter-App Audio apps.

Notification Center

• Accessible in the lock screen.
• Today tab, for previewing the events calendar, stocks, and tomorrows events; provides traffic info on frequently visited places.
• Missed filter: can filter list to see notifications that occurred when phone was not actively in use.
• Bounces when swiped down quickly.

Folders

• Unlimited number of apps via folder subpages.
• Newsstand app can now be moved inside any folder.

Alert

A countdown for snooze.

Calculator

• New feedback when pressing a key.
• Toggle landscape mode button.

Spotlight

Accessible on every page of the Home screen by swiping downward from anywhere.

Multitasking

• Redesigned switcher, with horizontal scrolling for previewing all running apps, and swipe upward gesture to stop any running apps.
• Can close multiple apps simultaneously by swiping with multiple fingers.
• Landscape switcher.
• Smart background app running mode; fetches data based on network connectivity and user habits.
• Use apps while the app is updating.

Weather

• Shows sunrise/sunset humidity, chance of precipitation, and wind speed.
• Can see multiple locations simultaneously when the menu icon is selected.
• Can select GPS icon at bottom to immediately see weather for current location.

Phone

• Block list.
• Phone History and Voicemail Info options allow one to return the call in multiple ways including call back, FaceTime and Messaging.

Contacts

• New fields in Contacts: "Add Social Profile", and "Add Instant Message".
• "Chat", "FaceTime", "Mail" buttons next to the contact information; no longer need to scroll down to the bottom.
• Send contacts through AirDrop.

FaceTime

• FaceTime Audio.
• Block list.
• A dedicated app on the iPhone, like the previous version on iPod Touch and iPad.

Messages

• Long SMS.
• Block list.
• No longer have to scroll to the top to access "Call", "FaceTime", and "Info".
• Ability to see exact time of when each message was sent by dragging conversation bubbles to the left.
• Event and address detection in the message context, tap to open in Calendar and Maps.

Safari

• Full screen browsing, the previous version only support in iPhone landscape mode.
• Unified text field for both URL and search.
• Bookmarked website thumbnail icons appear when text field is activated.
• Top-hit, Google suggest, Bookmarks, and History appear on the unified text field while typing.
• Preview tabs are no longer limited to 8.
• Preview tabs use new 3D vertical animation for previewing the opened tabs; long press to edit positions, swipe to remove.
• Reading List shows website thumbnails on the right.
• Scrolls articles one-by-one vertically from Reading List, as per OS X Mavericks.
• Swipe gestures for back/previous history, as per OS X.
• Parental controls.
• Private button: enables "Do not track me." feature per website within the app. Previously, configuration appeared in Settings for every website.
• Recent links: a reading list of all user's friends on Facebook or Twitter post.
• Reading List button: new round glasses icon pays tribute to Steve Jobs.
• The .com button removed and replaced with a simple period button. The .com, .net, and .org domain extensions can be accessed by holding down on the button.
• Bookmarks/Reading List/Shared Links tabs re-ordered/slightly tweaked.
• New bolder loading bar, private browsing UI tweaks and tab/bookmark changes on the iPad .
• Password Generator in Safari for generating unique, hard-to-guess passwords.

iCloud

• Photo Stream video support, and more than one contributor per photo stream.
• Notification Sync across different iCloud devices.
• iCloud Keychain for website login & Wi-Fi network passwords, credit/debit card management, and other account info.

Maps

• Automatic Day/Night Mode that responds to ambient light and current time to switch between day and night color schemes.
• Turn-by-turn walking directions, with estimated time.
• Maps bookmarks syncing.
• Receives notification data sent from the new Maps app in OS X Mavericks (version 10.9).
• A live compass at the right top corner.

Clock

• App icon reflects the live time.
• Timer shows in the lock screen.

Music

• New iTunes Radio service.
• Scrub along the song to get to a certain part directly from the lock screen.
• Download full albums from iCloud from iTunes Match.
• Tapping a song in the Now-Playing screen allows users to rate.
• Cover Flow: Instead of swiping though individual albums, one can now swipe through multiple albums.
• Reintroduced on-screen lyrics for iPads (this feature was absent in iOS 5 and iOS 6).

iTunes Radio

Slider/discovery feature.

App Store

• Automatic app updates: switch to enable/disable in Settings, under iTunes, App Store.
• New catalogues for kids based on their age.
• Genius tab replaced with "Apps Near Me" tab for app recommendations based on user's location.
• Volume purchase.
• Search tab redesigned, the number of results appears on the right of the search field.
• Circular download progress animation during downloading/updating in Home Screen.
• Add to wish list.

iTunes

Smart download of TV episodes.

Photos

• Albums are organized by Places, Moments, and Years, using the EXIF data as the base of the collection.
• Share Sheet shares photos to iCloud, social networks, and AirDrop (if available).
• New default album "Panorama Photos".

Camera

• Control redesign: swipe horizontally to select the still images, videos, square photos, and Panorama modes (if available).
• Live image filters.
• SDK for 60 FPS video recording.
• Pinch to zoom while video recording.
• Redeem iTunes gift card using front camera.
• Slow motion video recording at 120 frames per second (iPhone 5S only)
• Burst mode (iPhone 5S only).
• High dynamic range imaging (HDR) for iPad.

Calendar

• New layout for Calendar list view on the iPhone.
• Years view.
• Week view.
• Integration with Mail.
• Integration with Maps, users are notified with transit information when entering places information.
• Can now hide or show declined events.
• Will support custom calendar colors.
• All Day toggle on the Add Event Screen instead of buried in the Select Time control.
• Can snooze or View Event when an Event Reminder appears.
• Can setup a second alert time for an event.
• Can change Busy/Free Status.
• Selecting the name of the calendar month shows the monthly calendar.

Game Center

• Secure game scores.
• Authenticated players.
• Turn-based game modes.
• Ranking-style leader boards.

Compass

Inclinometer.

Mail

• View PDF annotation.
• New smart mailboxes.
• Improved Mail search.
• Hotmail is now Outlook when adding an account, using new Outlook icon.
• Flagged, Unread, To or CC, Attachments, All drafts, All sent, All Trash smart mailboxes.
• Shake to Undo to un-archive something.
• When emailing a passbook pass, it appears as a pass.
• New animation when compressing video to be shared.
• New animation when moving mail into a folder.
• When selecting a target folder while moving an email, an iconic image of the email above the folder selector appears.
• Have the ability to move an email to Junk folder when flagging.
• New Print option available when Reply option is selected.

Notes

Can AirDrop notes.

Settings

• Per app cellular data usage permission.
• Per app using microphone privacy permission.
• Per app using camera privacy permission.
• Password required to reset networking and contents.

Accessibility

Head movement detection for different gestures.

China features

• Tencent Weibo social network integration.
• Chinese-English bilingual dictionary.
• Improved Chinese input including T9 keyboard for pinyin (Added in Beta 4), and handwriting recognition for multiple Chinese characters.

Siri

• Updated voices, and a new male voice (in select regions/languages). English (US), French, and German will be available with the launch of iOS 7 (additional languages will be added over time).
• Controls certain system settings, such as turning on/off Bluetooth, and changing display brightness.
• Search from Wikipedia and Bing search engines.
• Navigation, access and voice are more natural.

Reminders

Geofencing.

Passbook

• Scan and recognize barcodes/QR codes.
• Add gift cards as a folder.

Find My iPhone

• Activation Lock: re-activation with iCloud account if the device have been wiped remotely using Find My iPhone service, to prevent unauthorized usage of the lost device.
• Password required to disable.

Enterprise

• Enterprise single sign-on.
• Per app VPN.
• Managed app config, for more efficiently deploying and managing of iPhones and iPads.

Accessories

• Setup and configure Wi-Fi accessories, such as AirPlay speakers.
• Location Beacons: a new class of low-powered, low-cost transmitters that can notify nearby devices, which serve as trail markers in a park, exhibits in a museum, or product displays in stores.
• Bluetooth LE profiles; including time, notifications, keyboards, and stereo sound.
• MFi game controllers.

Trusted Devices

User is warned when plugging their iOS device into their Mac/PC, "Trust the currently connected computer? Trusting this computer will allow it to have full access to your device and all of its data."

Voice Memo

• Save to iCloud.
• Share using AirDrop.

Status bar

• 1xRTT icon on CDMA iPhones changed from "o" icon to "1x" icon.
• GPRS icon on GSM iPhones changed from "o" icon to "GPRS" icon.
• Dots representations for cellular signal strength.
• Icon size slightly increased for better readability on the lock screen.

Lock screen

• Charging the battery: rather than battery image on the lock screen, x% charged briefly appears under the clock, then reverts to the date.
• Access to Notification Center and Control Center.
• When playing music, the lock screen will now display the time.
• iPad has Camera control on the lock screen, like the previous version on iPhone and iPod Touch.
• Timer counting down is shown when the device is locked.

Wi-Fi

• New Wi-Fi diagnostics mode.
• Wi-Fi Hotspot 2.0.

Other

• Add Passcode Lock during Setup Assistant.
• Vimeo and Flickr social network integrations.
• Italian, Korean, and Dutch dictionaries.
• New Tamil keyboard.
• New ringtones and system sounds.

"Wallpaper and the "now-ugly icons" that "shake a little" are aesthetics and not functions."

Exactly, which means that we lost basic functionality for the benefit of silly aesthetics. I think we're kind of in agreement there.

"those of us who use our devices as something more that a reallly expensive digital photo frame"

It's a little sad to excuse enormously obvious blunders in a $700 device just because the device does more than show pictures. Why would you think to yourself that there should be some kind of "trade-off" when it comes to basic features? Think bigger! A $100 digital photo frame ought to work. A $700 iPad ought to work too. Some of us have higher standards in both aesthetics and functionality.

"If the wallpaper is set to the proper dimensions..."

If!?!?! Isn't it just comical that we're even discussing this? So now we need to take our pictures, put them on other devices, resize them according to specs that aren't posted anywhere, put them back on our other device and set it as the wallpaper?! I mean, this ridiculousness speaks for itself.

And none of the features you listed make it OK that they messed up on one of the the most basic and simple of features that literally stares the user in the face every day. You shouldn't be excusing it by listing a bunch of other unrelated new features. Any decent company doesn't try to excuse slip ups by distracting people from them - they step up and take pride in making things the way they should be.

It seems you have grossly misinterpreted my posts.

Is iOS 7 perfect? Nope.

I plainly admitted it was not and for more reasons than the wallpaper which by the way, is hidden behind icons on the home screen and hidden on the lock screen as soon as you receive a notification.

numberforty1 wrote:

Ha, what improved functionality?? There is none!!

I am not making excuses at all. I was simply addressing your ridiculous claim that iOS 7 provided no improved functionality.

Axeman1020 wrote:

IMO..minor annoyance compared to the improved functionality

It seems you missed th IMO part.

FYI....you're phone might have cost $700 but iOS is free and has been for quite a few years.

Since this thread is about the wallpaper on the home and lock screens, my comment about zero improved functionality was about those things, and so entirely accurate. Seems you grossly misinterpreted that part. You already admitted these are aesthetics and not functionality. I assumed you were actually talking about the thread topic in your post, rather than bringing up every other iOS feature that is entirely unrelated.

Again I'm using the iPad not the phone, but suggesting that iOS is "free" is just silly. You can't get it without spending hundreds on a device first, and even worse is the fact that once you install updates Apple doesn't give you any option whatsoever to roll back to previous versions. Using iOS is not only expensive - once you purchase it you're forced into putting up with every annoying bug they convince you to update.

Demand better! I for one will be doing that without the use of iOS from now on. There are hundreds of pages of Apple Support threads full of folks saying the same, so hopefully the developers will catch on.

numberforty1 wrote:

Since this thread is about the wallpaper on the home and lock screens, my comment about zero improved functionality was about those things, and so entirely accurate. Seems you grossly misinterpreted that part.

Nope. I am aware of the topic. I was simply saying that the wallpaper resizing was an annoyance and doesn't actually affect how the device is used.

Again I'm using the iPad not the phone,

Since this thread is actually posted under Using iPhone, I could only assume that is what you were referring to.

If you want to be heard you should contact Apple. No one here can address your complaints and Apple won't address them here.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Already contacted Apple as much as possible, even their service reps admit that it's pretty bad, and of course they advise to be on the lookout for a fix - that hasn't materialized after four updates. Hopefully Apple is paying attention to their forums as well like the best tech companies are these days.

I'm glad you're aware of the topic, but you misinterpreted my comment, not the thread topic. And the fact that I'm using an iPad is the reason that I clarified a few posts back that I'm using an iPad.

Both of you make excellent points. It seems you are just missing each other in communicating. The iOS updates do provide new features. I am pleased with it overall. There are some bugs. The wallpaper is irritating and there are ways around it, but it was something that should have been considered prior to release.

I still have my parallax on (reduce motion off) and just use a photo editing app to create a border around my photo that I want to use for wallpaper. I don't think there is a product that even comes close to iphone and ipad though. I've tried some other brands and they were terrible.

It would be nice to see Apple add a feature that when selecting your wallpaper displays a box on the screen representing the dimensions of the ipad allowing you to shrink the photo to fit the box and maybe change border colors. I think the irritation of this bug is the biggest problem for Apple. Why tick people off for such a little thing? They should listen to the submitted complaints and fix it soon.

I think I figured it out this morning. Open up the picture in Photos and take a screenshot of the pic how you like it using the lock/home button at the same time. Now that photo is stored, use that photo as your wallpaper. Perfect size! Voila!

Once I digest this type of Apple BS, I sit back and enjoy ...

This idiotic wallpaper issue is a case in point.

In this thread (there are several others) I enjoyed the bandinage between numberforty1 and Axeman1020.

Here's my take on the issue from another thread ...

This should be (and was not very long ago) so easy.

Apple is determined to take away as much control from the end user as possible.

And in this Apple shows one of its principle characteristics (which incidentally traces its origin back to the company's founder), i.e., HUBRIS.

Hey Guys It helps if you set it then go back to wallpaper in settings then rescale it without choosing another photo. It is no ideal but it works

i just recently went from my 4s with iOS 6.1.2 to a 6+ with iOS 8. In my 6 years of iphone use, I have always used a landscape picture that sat neatly on the lockscreen. Even if I found really nice portrait pictures that I thought about using, I always went back to landscape. I am a very visual person and the fact that we cannot simple use the same functions that every single computer system in the world uses for wallpaper layouts is astoundingly straight stupid!

I also hate a few other changes that I've noticed going from my old iOS to my new iOS, but I wont post them because they'd be off topic.

edit: I forgot to mention I have been jailbroken the entire time I've owned iphones Because customization is actually more important to me than flashy features. I would rather keep ios 6.1.2 for 3 years and keep my black text messaging and at that point, invisible android lockscreen, and icons being almost invisible with no words under them just so that I could see my sweet background image.

If your phone is not currently jailbroken you can create a blank Home screen (except for the dock) to show off your wallpaper.

How to Create an Empty Homescreen on iPhone/iPad Without Jailbreaking

As far as the wallpaper goes, check out the free WallAid app in the iTunes App Store.

Of course, if your device is currently jailbroken, all bets are off.

Jailbreaking forfeits your warranty and support including help on these forums.

refusing help because of personalization preferences on a product that I own is so Apple. but I do appreciate your advice

It isn't refusing help. No company will support a product that was hacked or tampered with.

then all companies are soulless because I would help anyone whenever I can.