for anyone with the same problem, I add a border until the photo is larger than 1600x2650, at which point you can see the entire photo on the screen, as shown here:

This is one of the dumbest things I deal with on the pixel, although there are a lot of dumb things with this phone.

OP below:

ever since I got the pixel, one of the most frustrating non-Functionalities has been that I have to manually screenshot any picture that I want to make into a wallpaper background because my Google pixel 6 enlarges by about 3x any photo, I choose to make my wallpaper background and cannot make the picture smaller by pinching it smaller.

but now even if I save a screenshot, it blows it up more than 3x and I have to manually add a giant border around the picture in an external app so that the picture itself is much smaller if I want to see the entire picture on my phone wallpaper.

is this just some shitty thing with my phone or do all pixels do this?

  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    I’ve definitely never had to do this. I think it zooms in, like, a tiny amount, just so it can shift when you scroll.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    I just tried with a Pixel, and it gives me a cropping frame to select which part of a photo to use as wallpaper. Works fine.

    I don’t know the Pixel’s screen resolution, but that’s the key. You can only use so much of a photo as wallpaper, it needs to match the resolution.

    What app are you using to set the wallpaper?

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Pixel screenres is 2400x1080, my pic is 803x1075.

      I’m long-pressing the home screen, clicking wallpaper&style, scroll down, more wallpapers, my photos, then the folder and then this picture.

      instantly is blown up to about 2x my screen capacity and i have to crop out part of the picture. no resize allowed.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      pixel 6 screenres is 2400x1080, pic is 1080x1445, and I can only crop out most of the picture, I can’t minimize it all within the wallpaper app.

      that seems like such a crazy basic non-functionality.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      dang.

      so if you screenshot a picture, you don’t have to resize it afterwards, it works perfectly?

      because mine blows up any screenshot huge and like you say, I have to crop out most of the picture, leading me to add huge borders manually if I want the full picture as my wallpaper.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        1 month ago

        Try doing it from the gallery, pick your image, then 3-dot menu, Set As, choose Wallpaper, it gives you a cropping box. Works perfectly for me, so far.

        Edit: On some phones the cropping box isn’t obvious - you grab the image and drag it around within the preview space.

        • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          That second photo in the previous comment is the preview pane and cropping tool you’re taking about, unfortunately.

          however i enter the wallpaper app, either through three dots, use as, wallpaper, or through the home screen long tap process i described, the preview pane pops up with a massively oversized picture that I’m allowed to crop but not resize.

          Looks like my pixel had something wrong with its wallpaper app.

          at least the border trick works.

          i did ask about this on reddit a couple years ago and had a few people respond with the same issue, so it seems like some crappo software some of us are stuck with.

          I don’t want to factory reset the phone over this glitch, given how many other pixel bugs probably won’t be fixed anyway even after the hassle of a reset.

          it’s bizarre, but I’m glad that it isn’t affecting you or others.