iOS 7.1 Zooming Wallpaper with Perspective Zoom Turned Off

Wallex worked for me, and they have a new update today, version 1.2.2 that says it's specifically updated for iOS 7.1.

Very frustrating. They BLEW it with this one. IOS 7 was bad enough, but the workaround was to expand your landscape wallpaper with bars at the top and bottom to make it square. Then you would get the full-resolution view in landscape mode. Now they've taken that away - they refuse to make it possible to use the full resolution of the screen in landscape mode for wallpapers. This is absolutely ridiculous. They've actually written code that limits your ability to set your own wallpaper. The visual of the iPad is important to me - by taking that away, for whatever reason, I'm getting more open to alternatives than I ever thought I would be. Who tests this stuff? What's going wrong inside of Apple? Does anyone in Apple USE an iPad? Do they all use it in portrait mode 100% of the time! like a giant iPhone?

So here is the workaround for a screen with 1024x768 resolution (ipad2). Create a blank image file that is 1024 wide by 1365 tall. Cut and paste your 1024x768 (landscape) image into it. On the ipad, select that picture for wallpaper - however, this is another Apple bug - you must "set" it in portrait mode. Don't ask me why. Even though it looks right in landscape, it will zoom it after you set it there. This seems to work fine. But all of this is to work around a bizarre programming change that Apple made.

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

Any wallpaper I select is zoomed in so I only see about 1/4th of the picture.

I have tried all the responses. Those only cause the picture zoom to zoom in another 10%.

What is the fix?

Even after Apple fixing the issue, its not fully fixed.. Not all wallpapers fit.. The photos taken with default camera app also won't fit properly, more prominent in case of landscape photos . .

Wallax app works great.. Its free.. It helps you to fix the wallpaper issue..

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wallax-fix-ios-7-wallpaper/id839088169?ls=1&mt=8

Thanks, I'll try that.

Funny thing is, I had no issues with wallpaper in iOs 7.0

It wasn't unitl I upgraded to 7.1

Does Apple even test their upgrades before they force them out?

It seems they cahnge things just to cahnge, then break several features.

I just tried the above ap - on the iPad, the home screen wallpaper is still zoomed in, even though it looks fine in the app.

Also, now there is a thick grey bar behind the dock, that I can't get rid of.

It definitely works for me when I follow this process - let me walk through it (for an iPad 2 with resolution of 1024x768):

(1) Create a blank image with a vertical resolution of 1365, and a horizontal resolution of 1024. I use Photoshop, but it shouldn't matter.

(2) Copy and paste my landscape mode picture that has a horizontal resolution of 1024 into the blank image. Save it. Now I have an image that has an aspect ratio perfect for the iPad in Portrait mode, so it won't be zoomed in. Send to the iPad.

(3) In the camera roll, select that picture for wallpaper. Turn the iPad to portrait mode. The picture SHOULD fill the screen vertically, without any zoom. In Portrait mode, SET the wallpaper. Note, if you do the SET while looking at the picture in landscape mode, it will automatically zoom, even though it doesn't LOOK like it yet.

(4) Go look at your wallpaper. In portrait mode, you have bars at the top and bottom. That's the trade off for getting the picture right in landscape mode. in landscape mode, it should be perfect.

(5) Let me know if you follow this process and it still doesn't work. I'm curious. I actually converted something like 20 of my 1024x768 pics to 1024x1365 just to overcome Apple's zoom issue, and they all work beautifully using this process.

I'll try that tomorrow. (I also have an iPad 2)

But the frustration is the exact same images were perfect, before I upgraded.

I didn't have to do anything other than select the image. It didn't matter if I took the image with the iPad camera, found it on the web, or form an external camera. It just worked.

Hey Apple, how about that as a philosophy? "It just works!"

Wallax from the AppStore is your best option. It's free and works great!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wallax-fix-ios-7-wallpaper/id839088169?mt=8

This **** is ********. I want to toss my iPad in the trash because of this wallpaper crap. I can't believe they still haven't properly fixed this on iPads. (and apparently some iPhone users have issues with it again too). Next tablet I'm buying is something that has Android on it for sure.

Is ios 7.1 that bad? I'm still on 7.0. So I guess I won't be upgrading anytime soon. Also, this will be the last ipad or Apple product I buy. I'm sick of hearing about how bad a new update is. How freaking hard is it to leave stuff that works alone! Gotta change this and that! Makes it worse!

Wake up Apple! Your gonna lose loyal customers! My ipad mini updated on its own back when ios 7 came out, so I'm stuck with it. I'm so careful now when charging it...wifi off! Now the ipad 2 is discontinued. Feel sorry for people who bought one a month ago. Why didn't Apple just make the 4th ipad the budget one!? Because of the air. Nice move! Greedy! That's all.

Its not that bad. I am using it on both iPad and iPhone and except this wallpaper problem, which really ***** and which i experience on both devices, i did not find any other problems. And I actually like other improvements.

How is the battery on 7.1? I was gonna update my ipad 2 from 7.0.6 to 7.1, I was p o that when you turn on reduce motion I lost the zooming. I like the zooming but don't like the wallpaper moving around. Can you get the zooming back w/o the parallax wallpaper? I'm really get tired of Apple releasing updates but not giving you ALL changes being made to that update. But this also may be the last update for ipad 2 because Apple discontinued it.

I'm finding that the Apple Photos app zooms my images when my iPad Air is in landscape mode. Guess Steve Jobs was the only guy who tested stuff at Apple...