I have noticed that in iOS 8 on my iPhone 5S if you select a picture from Photos as your wallpaper, the resolution goes down massively. If you want a hi-res wallpaper to do your retina or HD retina justice, you left with just the default set of wallpapers to choose from. I hope this gets picked up by Apple and fixed in the next update to iOS 8. Disappointing. Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks for the suggestion
THIS!! This fixed it.
I have an iPhone 6. When I transferred all my data over to it from my old 4S, the wallpaper came over and looked just fine. Today, I tried resetting all the settings to fix yet another problem with the sound volume when I'm using Bluetooth. That wiped out my wallpaper. I replaced it with the exact same version of the same photo, stored on my Mac. Now it looked like crap--blurred and unrecognizable. I tried making another version from the original, cropping it to the exact size and proportions of the iPhone 6 screen (750 X 1034). Didn't help. It was an exquisitely sharp, perfectly lit photo of a rare corpse flower--I have no idea how I captured it just right, but I did--and now it looked like a blurry blob. Your suggestion fixed it on my lock screen. Thank you!!
HHaving the same problem right now. I used a photo taken from my iPhone 6s which is very clear and once I set it as my lock screen wallpaper, the resolution decreases.
Thanks a million, Buddy. You have just made my YEAR! I am an art historian who could not use the wallpaper for 2 years! You have solved this quite nicely!!!
When googling for a photo for wallpaper put in HD so your picture won't be blurry :)
My problem is a little different, the wallpaper on my 5s home page used to cover the whole screen but suddenly the bottom 1 inch is blurred out and I can't get it back.
Blurry wallpapers in iOS 8
