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?

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    3 months 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.

    • VarykOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months 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.