iOS 7.1 Zooming Wallpaper with Perspective Zoom Turned Off

It works as it is designed to work. It is not a bug. If what you want is for the photo to not extend below the dock on the launcher home screen then you will have to edit the photo yourself in an external image editing app.

Home screen photos have always had their bottoms obscured by the dock (yes, the new rectangular dock design in iOS 7 does tend to obscure more of the bottom of pictures than the old 3D dock design used in iOS 6 and earlier, but that's the way it is now with iOS 7 it's not going to change).

The problem iOS 7.1 fixes is the perspective zoom effect for wallpaper images that previously you couldn't disable, now you can. It was never intended to change the way the iOS 7 dock appears in relation to wallpaper images.

Jolieteddie wrote:

Just upgraded to 7.1 I find that with reduce motion selected and paralax off, I have much more control over how my photos are displayed as wallpaper. Way better than before the upgrade. Very pleased with the new controls.

Me too. I was finally able to use some of my own pictures and scale them apporpriately for wallpaper. Much Much nicer in 7.1.

What I want is for the very same photo that was on my screen this morning before the update to 7.1 to appear as it had under 7.0. If I understand you correctly, the "bug" was displaying my custom wallpaper correctly in the first place, yes? I did not have this issue with iOS 7.0. Thank you and good day, sir.

1. In 7.1, parallax and reduce motion are independent toggles.

2. I don't know if it's a bug, but the photo won't be cropped if portrait, but will be if landscape, and this issue didn't exist before 7.1.

3. As long as the resolution of iPad doesn't change, there won't be difference, no matter how the UI of dock changes.

I assumed you meant between iOS 6 and iOS 7.1 because that's what changed re the dock and you said the dock was your issue. But of course you were never specific about which previous version you were referring to.

Now olsArthur has raised the issue of differences between how the wallpaper appears when the iPad is oriented in landscape and portrait mode between 7.0 and 7.1; as you never specified which orientation you were using (I assumed portrait as that's the default for iOS) I have to ask, are you referring to the wallpaper in landscape or portrait mode, or both?

Everyone that has this wallpaper issue uses it in landscape mode, because everthing's fine in portrait mode.

But, this issue didn't exist before 7.1. ← This is the point.

David, in the first post to which you responded, I said I don't use portrait as much but that I got it to work somewhat better in portrait mode. I have been patiently responding to your posts because I believe you are trying to assist, but you are not either reading my responses or understanding them. On the other hand, olsArthur has been echoing what I've been saying, or I am agreeing with him, because he is experiencing this issue and understands it.

I have read through this thread and the many like it, as well as read through non-Apple fixes. What you suggest isn't working. Both portrait AND landscape worked in iOS 7.0 for me. Why you would assume I meant iOS 6.0 when I'd written 7.0, saying 7.1 concealed more than 7.0, is perplexing to me, so I signed off our conversation as politely as I could.

Thanks, olsArthur for your posts as well. If you find a good 3rd-party app that resolves this issue, please post to this thread (if that's allowed: the name of the app will do).

I am getting kind of irked because whenever I turn perspective zoom OFF, the wallpaper still moves around, even though it is not supposed to. Is it supposed to turn it off completely, or simply only reduce the parallax effect?

Tried every setting possible. My Pimp Your Screen wallpapers zoom about 150% in all modes. I just want no zoom. These are icon skin and shelf wallpapers. They are already sized perfectly, and worked fine in 7.0.x

I give up. I'll just use abstract images.

They're not talking about the dock. I see the same thing on my iPad 2 -- any wallpaper seems to be displayed at about a 2x zoom, so the background is both cropped and blurry vs. the original selection. True in both portrait and landscape orientations in my case.

Check the resolution of the original image. This should not be the case in most situations - with or without zoom.

I'm using wallpapers specifically designed to work in either portrait or landscape orientations with a resolution of 2048 x 2048. The images are zoomed in rather than going edge to edge. No matter how much I try to adjust the zoom, it always snaps back. Perspective zoom does not work as expected on the iPad with 7.1. Turning on reduce motion no longer solves that problem.

Try this app and see if it help you: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wallax-scale-resize-make-your/id722262021

I'm having the same issue. Any wallpaper I had before the update does not work after the update - no matter what I do.

I tried Wallax. It did not help.