Lock screen photo is blurry

All of a sudden, my lock screen photo appears blurry. I used different photos, including Apple provided photos. No difference. Home screen photos are not blurry.
Does anyone have a fix?
Thanks.

Apple clearly desinged the lockscreen to blur, whenever anything other than the TIME has to display there.
Took me a long time to realize that, for me, the problem was audio playback. For others, it is notifications, texts, etc.
Whenever you use AUDIO, the iOS displays the "playback control buttons" on the lockscreen, which causes the blurred background [presumably in order to better see the displayed info]. But, as soon as I PAUSE, the screen clears right up.
If your issue is notifications, this should be fixable; because you should be able to NOT DISPLAY notifications on the lockscreen.
I will be checking to see if there is an option to NOT display the "playback control buttons" on the lockscreen - given new control center, those buttons are no longer even necessary, especially when I can access the control center from the lockscreen.
We need to request that apple add option to STOP blur effect on the lockscreen.
You will NOT see this effect on the home screen; because, in theory, the iOS does not "display info" there - only icons.
Hope this helps! Been very annoying for me, as well!

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It was fine in iOS 6. I tried using one of the Apple photos for the lock screen and it blurs also.
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Apple clearly desinged the lockscreen to blur, whenever anything other than the TIME has to display there.
Took me a long time to realize that, for me, the problem was audio playback. For others, it is notifications, texts, etc.
Whenever you use AUDIO, the iOS displays the "playback control buttons" on the lockscreen, which causes the blurred background [presumably in order to better see the displayed info]. But, as soon as I PAUSE, the screen clears right up.
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my main blur issue is NOT with notifications; but with audio playback; because iOS thinks it has to display the audio controls on the lockscreen, which blurs the wallpaper. But, when I hit PAUSE, I can get the screen to go back to normal (using by toggling screen ON/OFF). hopefully there is a way to remove that from displaying on the lockscreen, since the control center has the same audio controls and is also accessible from the lockscreen.
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