iOS 14 brought about a degree of customizability to the Apple iPhones with added support for shortcuts, widgets, and custom icons. But the best feature that gives the most ‘personal touch’ vibes has in fact existed for ages.
The feature is iOS’s live photo wallpaper functionality that allows users to make and set a custom live wallpaper out of a GIF or video of their choice. However, this is where several iPhone users are running into issues:
As clear from the above, the iPhone live photo lock screen wallpaper appears to sort of shift to the side, outside of the viewable area upon a 3D touch, leaving a big chunk of a black screen.
The issue seems to be affecting older iPhone models as well as the latest ones with bezelless displays including the iPhone 12 series.
One user also observed that not all images are affected. Photos taken in the 4:3 aspect ratio can play correctly on the lock screen, while others including the 16:9 aspect ratio suffer from the same black screen effect.
Nonetheless, if you are one of the users affected by this bothersome bug, then you might want to try out the following possible workaround that was given out by a user:
Do keep in mind that this workaround for the iPhone live wallpaper black screen issue upon 3D touch hasn’t been tested by us and is hence not guaranteed to work. It is still worth a shot though.
If it does not help, then your best bet would be to stick with photos shot in the 4:3 aspect ratio instead. Or you could simply crop them to the magic size.
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