IOS 7 Can't unzoom .. resizing will not shrink photo to fit screen

Hello, litte princess.

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You may find the information in this article helpful.

iOS 7 uses a parallax effect to create the perception of depth on your Home screen and elsewhere. When this feature is on, you may notice that your:

• Wallpaper, icons, and alerts shift slightly as you move your phone.
• When setting a wallpaper in Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness, the photo or image will be slightly zoomed and cannot be scaled to fit to the screen.

You can change this behavior by enabling Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion.

Note: If zoomed, you will need to rescale your wallpaper to fit to the screen.

iOS 7: How to reduce screen motion

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5595

Cheers,

Jason H.

This is a known issue. Do a search of the forum to see other threads about this.

Cheers,

GB

I have the same problem all my pictures are now to large there does not seem to be any recognition from apple regarding this tissue can't get a solution anywhere

Turning off parallax doesn't work. Odd that Apple didn't catch this in testing. Pretty stupid quirk in the software considering the age we live in!

I have tried changing the motion setting as well and it didn't fix the problem.

If you go in through your photos app and tap on the little box with the arrow poking out of it, that brings up the pop up to 'send' your image. Choose wallpaper and then you will have a bit more ability to scale and move. Not as much as you used to but more htan you have going in through the settings and wall paper.

Also the higher resolution image you use the better. THe iPad seems to default to 'must fill screen' so it zooms in so that the smallest side is to the screen edge and it will not unzoom. The larger resolution images you start with the less zoomed in it defaults to and the more mobility you have.

That's exactly what I did the first time I noticed this problem. I try to set a photo as wallpaper but It won't let you scale down the photo at all. I wish Apple would fix this. I've talked to people who have Droid phones and they don't have this problem.

You can try this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5595

If that doesn't fix things, you may want to try my workaround:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5335229?tstart=90

Thanks for the suggestions but it's not caused by the parallax thing. I had already turned the motion off but it didn't fix it. I think Apple is telling people that's what causes the problem but their wrong. Thanks again. I guess I'll just have to settle for a work around for now.

My workaround works very well for me and even with the parallax effect on, i.e. Reduce Motion = Off.

I download any wallpaper I like from the Internet, then quickly modify it, as described, and use it on my iPad 2.

I figured this out today! If your photo won't fit for your wallpaper, simply do this:

When you're viewing your preferred photo, tap the white area to turn it black (why white? it's awful), then take a SCREENSHOT of your photo surrounded by black. [Screenshot is done by holding the power button at the top while quickly hitting the Home button. This will create a brand new copy of your photo at the very end of your pictures.

Use that for your wallpaper.

Do I rock or what?

Where are you viewing your preferred photo?

To mitopay

Works pretty dam well!

Thanks

I know how to fix this guys. And yes it has something to do with the parallax effects. What you are going to do is:

1. Go to 'Settings'

2. Go to 'General'

3. Then 'Accessibility'

4. Look for 'Reduce Motion'

5. TURN IT "ON"

And you're good to go :) hope i can help..