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iOS 7: How to reduce screen motion

You can reduce screen motion in iOS 7. iOS 7 uses a parallax effect to create the perception of depth on your Home screen and elsewhere.

To reduce the effect, you can turn on Reduce Motion in Settings > General > Accessibility. When you turn on Reduce Motion, Home screen transitions will fade instead of zoom.

When the parallax effect is on, you may notice the following:

Wallpaper, icons, and alerts shift slightly as you move your phone.

When you set a wallpaper in Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness, the photo or image will be slightly zoomed and can't be scaled to fit the screen.

If you zoom in, you will need to rescale your wallpaper to fit to the screen. You can't rescale certain photo formats, including landscape or square images.

To learn more about iOS 7, refer to the user manual.

Last Modified: Nov 6, 2013

At the risk of sounding repetitive, we knew all that.

When I switched to iOS 7 I could not longer use my favorite pictures as my wallpaper. I was very disapointed about that and decided to create a little app to fix my problem. I saw that this is a problem many users are running into, so I chose to make my little helper called Wallpaper Fix public.

Wallpaper Fix lets you freely resize, rotate and position your picture in order to use it as your custom iOS 7 wallpaper..

iOS 7 needs wallpapers to be of specific dimensions in order to work properly with the parallax effect, just position your picture the way you want it and Wallpaper fix does the rest automatically for you.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm7Ja1_xym4

AppStore: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id765059392?mt=8

Let me know what you think, and please help me spread the word.

best regards

Bernhard

FOUND THE SOLUTION.

Its a FREE app.

https://itunes.apple.com/mx/app/fitwallp-fit-to-wallpaper/id764303496?l=en&mt=8

I am so Happy!!

Cheers

Josh---i tried that app. Despite some interesting language issues, I don't think it's the perfect fix. Using this app lets you rotate and enlarge the picture, but it doesn't let you reduce the size of the image. Therefore, "Size and Scale" still doesn't work. APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS.

I was perfectly able to reduce the size and read the English interface. It is not my app but I found it useful ;)

Josh...I actually tried both apps, the free Japanese one and the 99-cent version mentioned above. They both allow you to somewhat play with the image, and enlarge, but neither one lets you reduce the pic. Too bad. I don't enjoy having my date and time stamps on my lock screen go right over people's faces.

I just did it, and worked. You just have to pinch in. :) maybe you need to play more with the app. :)

Josh...are you using the japanese one or the other one?

If you guys have any questions just let me know I am happy to help you.

Wallpaper Fix lets you zoom in and out, just use the 2 finger pinch to zoom gesture. You can also rotate your picture and position it freely wherever you want.

best regards

I found my own fix that worked for me using an iPad 3 with iOS 7 installed.

Sinply turn on the Reduced Motion setting in the Settings app.

When this is turned on when setting a wallpaper! you can use any photo any size from the Photos app and it will scale up and down using the two finger pinch to zoom ou or down and can reposition the image on screen anywhere you want.

I used a large, landscape style image and was able to two finger pinch to zoom the image down and use a single finger to push to image around to reposition it on the screen.

The plus to setting the Reduced Motion on iOS 7 is that my iPad responds faster as the parallax effect is disabled and any of the fancy zooming features changed to fast fade effects, instead.

I really like the way my iPad works, now.

It's much more responsive.

dear fhizihf, if you rescale using 'reduced motion on', save the settings and change to 'reduced motion off' afterwards, the rescaled background picture will 'hold'

thanks a lot!

I replied tongue in cheek to onmyway.

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I'm tired of Apple always trying to change the things that actually work.....my pictures don't look GREAT now 😠