The top of my iPod touch screen is darker than the rest of my screen after the newest update?

Yeah, keep playing with the settings. Mine looks pretty much like it did before the update....

Cheers,

GB

I really only noticed this in the 7.1 update.

Same here with iPad 3 and Air and with iPhone 5. It's not the image, it's something with the Ios. Hope enough people notice it so a fix is put in place. It really looks bad, esp. since it wasn't an issue before, just like the still unfixed resizing issue.

The same thing is happening with my iPhone 4 since I updated to 7.1, but only when I use photos that I have downloaded from the internet for my wallpaper. When I use my own photos it doesn't happen. It's probably something to do with copyright and fair use. "If you do not have specific permission (preferably written!) from the owner of a photo, you cannot legally display it on a website, post it to the Usenet, copy it, send it around by Email or other means, make photos derived from it, sell it, or otherwise exploit it." from http://webnet77.com/webstuff/copyright.html

The copyright thing is kind of invalid. I'm not saying the photo is my own. You can download any image from the internet and use it as your desktop background. This shouldn't be affecting anything.

Whether the copyyright thing is valid or not, it's just what I've noticed. Anything that I have made a screen shot of and then imported to iPhoto, or any of my own photos, do NOT get the "dark third" treatment when trying to use as wallpaper. Anything that I imported directly into iPhoto from somewhere on the web DOES get the dark third.

And, as I read above, and have read before, it is illegal to copy or download any photo from anywhere without permission from the photographer. You can share a link that has the photo in it, but you aren't supposed to just use it yourself. It happens millions (billions?) of times a day, I know, but, technically, it's not legal, even if you just copy it to look at on your own computer. I'm not on a mission to stop people from doing it, as I do it myself, but those are the facts.

I too have been having the same issue my friends; and after a pointless chat with apple support I have been told this is a new feature of the iOS. Well it's a feature I and many of you dont want. So I ask of you my friends to leave negative feedback about this issue and demand they fix it ASAP.

I'm with Megaemperor here. "New Feature", give me a break, it takes a nice image, whatever you have selected and degrades it with a false darkening. I really don't get the point, and if it's to make some text that may show up in as a notification easier to read, it isn't needed. I have never had a problem reading the text, but sure don't like that the Degas image I use on my Ipad, looks like it is improperly imported. At the very least, give the option to turn off the "feature", perhaps at the same time as you fix the still broken sizing issues. Love most of 7, but these two issues really should not be part of the os.

It's on iPhone, too. What I don't understand is why it happens to some images and not others. It doesn't happen to photos I take, but happens to some of the ones I've gotten from the internet, and not to others.

I am not having that problem on my iPod Touch iOS 7.1

Did you get the update via OTA or from iTunes? (Your Computer) Just asking due to I did it through iTunes.

I know this is only a temporary fix, but if you 'enlarge' the picture when you go to set it as your wallpaper, the darkness will go away. Essentially, the bigger the picture, the clearer the view. I don't know if this works for ALL photos, but it fixed the darkness on the pictures I set as my wallpaper. I agree with those who say we need to complain to Apple till they fix it, this is B.S. that we paid good money for this product and they go and ruin it unnecessarily.

Feedback submitted to Apple. This is terrible. So annoying.