iOS 7.1 Zooming Wallpaper with Perspective Zoom Turned Off

@rbrylawski, I, too, tried Wallax. I had to shrink the image down fairly small and play with placement, but it WORKED! One has to go to a new directory the program creates in camera roll for the resized image. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the suggestion. No loss of image quality either. If I use the app for nothing other than resizing custom wallpaper, I consider the purchase well worth it.

Landscape way more than portrait for what, olsArthur? iPad, iPhone, what? Look around when you're in public. I see people using their phones mostly in portrait mode, though they do use them in landscape at times.

I don't know why you are talking about phones. We've been talking about the iPad since the BEGINNING. The perspective zoom feature is COMPLETELY NO PROBLEM in iPhone.

Go see the first post.

Because I was actually coming here to research something with Parallax on my phone and did a search and did not really notice that the forum for this search result was iPad and the title did not mention it, so I guess I just had iPhone on my mind. But, hey, thanks for being rude about it!

Sorry about that. I just don't like people who comment before they even look at the post itself, and sarcasm.

Its absolutely not true that zoom is ok on iPhone. IT IS NOT after 7.1. It got broken again and background gets zoomed and there is nothing you can do about it unlike in 7.0 where you could get rid of it by turning Reduce motion ON.

The response did not come off as rude, GTGeek88, especially given the context. There were no personal insults, no invective whatsoever. Your apology for not having checked which forum you were posted in, however, does seem a bit acerbic to me. This issue has us all a bit hot under the collar. The Wallax fix suggested by Rbrylawski worked for me; I hope it can help others with this iPad landscape zooming issue.

Good to know that you never make mistakes. And good to know that you don't like me. The feeling is mutual.

All caps generally is considered shouting. As for being hot under the collar, there are lots of things that Apple does that make me hot under the collar, unfortunately.

Hello,

I am running iOS 7.1 on my iPhone 5s and am experiencing the same problem and can confirm that this is a bug. However, I have come up with a workaround until Apple fixes it in an update. (Note, however, that I have only verified that this works on the iPhone 5s.)

1.) Open the Photos app and bring up the picture you want to use as your background, orienting it how you want it to appear as your wallpaper. Tap to hide the status bar and app buttons.

2.) Take a screenshot by holding the Home button and pressing the Sleep/Wake button.

3.) Bring up the screenshot you just took. Press the Share button and choose Use as Wallpaper.

4.) Turn Perspective Zoom: Off, and then pinch to zoom out so the whole picture fits on the screen. Then tap Set and choose which screen(s) you want it set for. Now your wallpaper shouldn't be zoomed.

What's funny is if you go into Settings > Wallpapers & Brightness, your wallpaper will still look zoomed in the preview even though it isn't when you're actually on your home and/or lock screen (which is how you know it's a bug). It must be either a resolution or file type thing, but either way it's a bug. But I'm sure Apple will take care of it in the next update.

Anyway, hope that helps.

Again, this bug only exists on iPad. Everything's fine on my iPhone, too.

No, actually... it does exist on the iPhone too.... I wouldn't have wasted my time to search Google, find this thread, see that there isn't a solution, try things out on my own, figure out a workaround, join Apple Support, and kindly write up what worked for me if I wasn't experiencing this problem in the first place....

It is very image-dependent. Most of my images don't do it, but the one I want to use that's cropped perfectly for the aspect ratio of my phone's screen does. I haven't found a pattern for what causes this problem yet.

After looking into it further, it does seem to be resolution-specific on the iPhone at least. If you don't believe me, make an image (I tried with a PNG and a JPEG, it did it for both) with a resolution of 840 x 1491 (which is higher resolution but the exact same aspect ratio as the screen on the 5/5s). If you don't see the issue after setting that image as your wallpaper, then I along with two of my friends all have defective iPhones.

And if you don't have an iPhone 5/5s, then you'll just have to believe me....

... or not, I guess.

I have the same problem on my iPad. I have an iPad 2 and an Air, and the problem appears to be the 7.1 update, even though a similar zooming problem on 7.0.x.

The thing is, when setting a 1:1 ratio image as wallpaper on portrait mode, everything works fine, disabling motion the top and bottom of the screen perfectly matches the top and bottom of the image, in full resolution, cutting off the horizontal sides. But when setting this same image on landscape mode, neither the top, bottom, or sides of the image aligns with the edges of the screen, instead the image looks zoomed in, when in this case the horizontal of the mentioned image should fit the screen in full resolution and the top and bottom be cut off.

I can work around this issue by setting the wallpaper in portrait mode, and when used in landscape, it will show more of the image than if I had set it in landscape mode. But even then it would be zoomed in a little, but this is not an ideal solution. (All of this with motion turned off and the image zoomed out the maximum by pinching).

I contacted the people who developed the Pimp My Screen App about the zoom issue. I recieved a reply this morning and they are aware of the problem and are working to correct it. This also happened with another ios update and took about ten days to resolve.