Can't scale pictures since ios7 update

I am in total agreement - as another post recently stated, 'What used to be a fun and easy way to change the look of your ipad/iphone has become too much of a hassle to even bother with anymore; downloading another app, resizing, taking a portrait screenshot, Etc etc'. * If someone from Apple should see this post, I personally (and I'm sure many others) would be somewhat appeased if this problem/issue was at least openly addressed rather than ignored.

I shrank the picture I want till it was tiny. It still overran the screen but was as grainy as you'd expect. Taking a screengrab with the two buttons didn't do the job either.

I have solved it. I used a very old standard PC-based photo editor (I bought it in 1998!) to increase the canvas size of my chosen picture. The original is 640 x 853 pixels. I left the pic that size but made the canvas 55% larger in each dimension - 992 x 1322 with the original centred within that. The extra border is pure white.

That fits the lock screen in portrait mode perfectly.

You'd think that between September and now, iOS 7.0.4, Apple would have been able to sort the "shrink" feature. I would also be horrified if it were my company and nobody was reading a forum like this. Poor show, Apple.

I've sold my shares. It's only a matter of time, now. The competition is catching up fast.

You just solved your own problem. The ipad resolution is a minimum of 1024 x 768, your image is smaller, hence why it zooms in and can't be moved.

Try using a higher resolution photo and you'll have better results.

still cant move and scale wallpapers...

im not changing the resolution of every pic i want to use for wallpaper...

any updates to IOS in near future?

This is a user to user forum, so none of us know any more than you do. There has been talk about iOS 7.1 but nothing more than its existance.

We'll all find out whenever it is released.

Agree with Furry Jake 110%. Presented the problem to the "experts" in 3 different Apple stores -- CLUELESS. Already switch my phone to Samsung and hoping someone steals this ipad so I can switch there as well. This is PITIFUL. Even my old early generation blackberries had NO PROBLEM using any photo as wall paper. My ipad used to be beautiful, looked like a Renoir.....now, TELETUBBIES! Apple, you blow.

This has recently become an annoyance to me, since every image I download for the internet gets zoomed in a massive amount whenever I try to set it as a wallpaper.

Though as someone said before, the way around this, working for me at least, is to go into settings General>Accessibility>Reduce Motion (ON).

This removes the fancy 3D effect of tilting the screen, but causes the image to be properly scaled. Personally, I feel this is adequate, but also that the zoom on the motion enabled images is a little too much.

Hope this helps

The "work around" doesn't work -- even at the Apple store they can't do it.

I didn't pay premium Apple prices for "adequate", I paid for excellence!

Worst part is it worked perfectly before....ios 7 is a downgrade, pitiful.

Another update to ios7 and still no fix. Do they take any notice of their customers?

Uhhh....definitively, no.

Pitiful.

Found this in another post: on the App Store InstaFix is a free download, worked fine for me on a Ipad Air.

Just select the picture from camer roll or photos and save it, then goto settings and save as wallpaper.

Not ideal but it works.

"Not ideal" doesn't "work"for me.

I paid premium prices for this product, a product that did have the proper functionality. When they put out ios 7 they worsened my product...

...as far as I'm concerned that's stealing.

InstaFix did not work for me.

There's an app called "Fit Wallpaper to IOS 7" works great it resizes your selected pic to fit perfectly on your screen, and it only takes seconds to do. I recommend anyone looking for a fix to give this app a try. I'm sure we've all waited long enough.

I just had luck taking a screen shot of the photo where it was too small then zooming in till it was what I wanted. It worked really well and wasn't fuzzy. :-)