Why is half my wallpaper dark now?

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Why is half my wallpaper dark now?

I created a custom wallpaper for myself that is a photo collage of my daughter. It's 12 photos in a grid with a black box with white text in the middle. It's been my wallpaper for a few weeks now.

Today, after upgrading to iOS 7.1, there is a darkened area at the top of the screen on both the lock and home screens. I honestly thought there was something wrong with the screen at first, but no, this seems to be something iOS 7.1 is adding in over my photos. It only seems to occur on certain pictures.

Can anyone help me figure out how to circumvent this "feature," or at least help me figure out when it's going to happen?

For reference, it does not matter if parallax is on or off, nor does it matter if the perspective shift is togglesd on or off. Same crappy overlay behind the clock, and same ugly result.

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1

Posted on Mar 11, 2014 12:28 AM

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Answer 1

MickyG34

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Mar 14, 2014 11:18 AM in response to abijnk

I am having this problem too. It happened to me in the last ISO update but was not that bad and didnt bother me that much, but now its gone much worse and make alot of my pictures look terrible.

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Mar 14, 2014 4:54 PM in response to abijnk

I've got the same problem, I've tried changing the contrast settings and the parallax and nothing works. Wish apple would provide a way for us to have a background that isn't affected by all these changes they are making

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Mar 14, 2014 8:22 PM in response to abijnk

Same problem on my 4s and on my wifes 5c.

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Answer 4

Mar 15, 2014 7:47 PM in response to abijnk

I am getting this to it darkens one half of my custom wallpaper but it dosnt do it with apples own wallpaper.

it is rather annoying but i noticed today that my custom wallpaper is getting darker and the brightness hasnt changed can anyone help with this problem?

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cp9102

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Mar 16, 2014 4:29 PM in response to abijnk

Same problem here :( Ut only happens on some if my wallpapers though and not on all of them? Not sure why this is?

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EUPHONIA

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Mar 20, 2014 12:39 AM in response to abijnk

I dislike this feature a lot!!! Nothing looks good as a background anymore.. That used to be my favourite thing

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Answer 7

Mar 22, 2014 10:22 PM in response to abijnk

I been having the same issue. And unfortunatlely I was told by apple support team that it i a feature of the new iOS. BUT it's a feature we dont want!! So please my friends I urge you all to give negative feedback on this issue and demand that they fix this issue ASAP.

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cp9102

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Mar 23, 2014 7:04 AM in response to Megaemperor

Megaemperor - i'm not calling you a liar, but i am going to say that i don't believe your comment. I believe this is what you were told, BUT i don't believe Apple. A FEATURE is something that happens consistantely all the time or in this case on EVERY wallpaper. From my experieces at least it only happens on like 2-3 of my 77 or so wallpapers. Thus i don't believe it's a feature, but a BUG.

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Apr 16, 2014 7:59 PM in response to EUPHONIA

I agree with u

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