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adamvk

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Oct 29, 2008
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I picked up my iPad, unlocked it, and went to the eBay app and did some shopping. I then put it down, and a few minutes later, I picked it up, and the lock screen was an image of New York I've never even seen before. I didn't take, I didn't download it, and I certainly didn't make it my background image. I checked my camera roll/photo stream, it's not there. It's also not an album cover.

After a few times of unlocking it and putting it back to sleep my original lock screen image came back.

So....WTF?
 
There is a slideshow feature on the lock screen, so the images would rotate. Maybe that had something to do with it?
 
You might have had the music app running by accident and when locked will display album artwork. It was most likely that if it's not a photo of your own
 
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