Can anyone throw any light on this?

Just love technology. I had a new ipad last year and when I was setting it up it decided to connect to the main pc and was just starting downloading the photos from there. Seems OK except there are nearly 20,000 there (mainly work). I managed to change the settings before the memory was full.

It is possible to pick up other people's phone messages etc on your phone. I did a course on Cybersecurity with Futurelearn and it showed you how your Facebook page etc can be seen by others in the vicinity with the right phone. It has made me a lot more careful about using it on trains etc. I wouldn't worry too much about it though. he probably didn't know it had been sent to you.

Just caught up! Crikey!

Elegran no, unfortunately he deleted it very quickly or that would have been a good idea. The subject was sitting in a car, with his arm resting on the open window, looking straight into the camera. There wasn't room for anything in the background. As it isn't an iPhone and we don't have a computer, it isn't a simple matter to retrieve the photo.

I hope not shysal; it would have to have been "find a drug dealer" by the look of this guy! (Yes I know - judgemental - he could have been a plumber having a bad day for all I know). He didn't look very friendly.
When my SGS's come down on Sunday we will ask them if they have any ideas; or know any drug dealers; or plumbers. I did read that odd images can be transferred from Whatsapp onto a phone, but he doesn't have it. It isn't an Apple phone.

Goodness, anyone would think there was some supernatural activity going on! Delete and/or run away seems to be the usual reponse...

I was just thinking I ought to get myself a smart phone.
Changed my mind now.

I've noticed recently on my Samsung phone that in my library I have pictures that I didn't take but were in folders named Facebook, Google maps , Messages etc and it seems a recent update of the software ( or a setting change) now means im picking up pictures from previously unaccessed places.

Perhaps this is the same ?

Well ... could it be something like this: I was at a supermarket Photo Booth a year or so ago, and the assistant was helping me to send photographs to the photoprint machine via the ether. The next thing a message came up on my phone "Image successfully sent to XXXX" (a strange phone number). I said "What the Hades...!?" And he replied something to the effect that if someone walked past at the precise moment that I had pressed "Send" and had a live/open BluRay signal on their phone, the photograph could have gone to a stranger's phone!

It certainly hadn't gone to the printer. I was out of there like a shot, sans print of photo, and have never been back.

I bet he flicked it whilst doing something else I ve fond it before now but if you ve deleted it you ll never know

Did he accidentally take a screen shot of something he was looking at on line?

Before you zapped it, did you notice the date and time the photo was taken? That could pinpoint where you were and possibly jog your memory abut what was happening. Youi might have seen what was in the background, Maybe the phone was on a table for a few minutes and some comedian someone picked it up and shot a selfie?

Intriguing! But as you've deleted the photo, all you can do is speculate...

I wondered that, but it doesn't look like an accidental photo. (Even the photos that DH takes deliberately tend to look accidental!). It looks posed and quite close up. His phone also has a cover that folds across the screen, with a magnetic clip, so unless he has it open and activates the phone function, it wouldn't take accidental photos. He has to touch the screen to take a photo. .

Have your GCs had access to the phone? Even very young ones can work them these days. GD aged 2 wiped everything from her mum's iPhone in a couple of minutes (no-one is sure how) so 1 little photo would be a doddle. 2year old GS can now use the torch function on mine and sometimes shuts off my wi fi!

I would guess the same as Primrose

I wouldn't worry. I've accidentally taken photos of all sorts of things with my phone. Usually my feet, the cat or once even my shopping trolley . My problem is long fingernails - not always accurate with my phone.

Do you have one button on your phone that's set up to take a photo? That might be the cause.