Can anyone throw any light on this?

blueskies thanks for the thought, but we have been married for fifty years, are rarely out of each other's company, and, bless him, he is a man with very little imagination who could not tell a lie to save his life! He deleted it because after he had showed it to me, and I panicked and he thought it was the best thing to do.

Am I an old cynic? Do you trust your husband. Why was he in such a hurry to delete the photo. Wasn't he curious?

Maybe he was taking a photo of something else and clicked by accident x

I'm with Primrose65 delete and don't worry about it.

We have had our SGS's here this afternoon and the general consensus of opinion is that, as some of you have said, DH should turn off his Bluetooth, as this is the most likely explanation although none of them seemed to know why he didn't have a request to accept or decline the photo.

Grannyknot is right Diddy. I always tell my students work needs to be saved in at least two places. It certainly helped the student who left his dissertation on the bar in the pub and didn't get it back!

To the OP. I would be spooked out too. Thankfully I'll know not to panic if it happens to me.

Always make sure your bluetooth is off
I had a strange voicemail on mine a couple of years ago, it said hello____[_my name] this is Alfie
I dont know anyone called Alfie at all
The only thing i can think of,is i was on the bus and a man started talking to me,and actually invited me for a cup of tea,he got off the bus same stop as me,
All i can think is his bluetooth on his phone picked my name and no up from my phone
After enquiring at a phone shop i was told this could happen,
Scary really

diddy1 buy an external hard drive, and save a copy on that - you should be backing up your files any way:

www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-External-Hard-Drives/zgbs/computers/430544031?tag=gransnetforum-21

That will depend on the storage available on your computer Diddy1. Documents do not take up much storage at all, you've probably got room for War and Peace

Nothing to do with this thread, I just want to know how much one can store on a computer, such as documents, is there a limit to KB whatever they are, I am currently writing a book and save evrything, but what happens if the document file gets full? anyone have ideas? Thank you for any help you can give.

The other day, I read on the internet that could can actually take a phot on your mobile phone by pressing the volume button on the side of the phone. It seems it's a lot easier for people who take selfies. Maybe that's what happened.

Best to disable Bluetooth until need to have it on. Apparently it gobbles up battery life.

Sounds exactly what I described earlier happened to my sister at a concert primrose she deleted the photos just as soon as we'd had a good look at them.

When I get sent any photos via Bluetooth, I always get a message asking me whether I accept or deny them. Also, when pairing up with a nearby device I get a message naming the device and asking permission...or something like that.

Thank you for all your responses and theories - as Harrigran says, it is puzzling. I asked my SiL who is very tech savvy whether he had any ideas, and he came up with the Bluetooth theory too, but even he wasn't absolutely sure.

Sounds like the problem that Primrose has just highlighted.

The trouble with smartphones is that they're smarter than me. Every time I think I've caught up they're off again with features that I have no clue about. I probably use about 20% of what my phone could do.

Could it be a 'sample' shot? Some devices come pre-loaded with a file of sample images in the Gallery. I've never been sure why and tend to delete them if possible

The only other way to get a picture onto your phone that I'm aware of is via Bluetooth (It's also called Android Beam). If you have it switched on, it's possible to send photos to other phones close by or to receive them. It may be that someone has chosen your phone by mistake. It's not unusual for several people nearby to all have a Samsung, or an iPhone so it could be that they've simply chosen the wrong phone to send the photo to.
If you use things like bluetooth headsets etc, it's not unusual to have it switched on all the time.

A bit puzzling but there will be a logical answer.
Even very small children can operate phones, when GD2 was two years old she took a selfie and sent it to my sister. She could not read so it was pure chance that she picked up on the one number on my phone which was most frequently used. We still laugh about it because I still have not mastered sending photos.

I have had 2 incidences of this. One was a picture of a little girl that none of us knew but came from my daughters phone.
The other was a picture of a man on my iPad. The odd part of that one was, was that this mans picture was between pictures that the grandchildren were taking at the time.

Funnily enough a few years ago my sister found some very questionable photos of "men's bits" in her photo gallery on a Samsung phone . We had been to a concert the previous night and she definitely didn't take them . One of our techy guys at work said it is possible to Bluetooth them from one (same) phone to the other . She had been taking photos at the concert and we wondered if someone had noticed the same phone as theirs ? Not sure if this is possible really ? But can't think of any other logical explanation.
Oh btw neither of recognised the "bits"

He doesn't have Facebook (I do) but he does spend a lot of time on Twitter. I have looked at his phone and can't seem to find a folder for deleted photographs. Online it just tells you to link the memory card to a computer to retrieve any deleted items but we don't have one. We are probably getting jumpy for nothing.

Greyduster you should be able to find deleted photos on your phone, they probably stay there in a separate folder until your memory is getting full.