Windows 10: How do I stop lock screen picture feedback from opening a Bing search once I log in?

I've used Windows Spotlight for my lock screen picture for a long time now, and liked that I could say I liked/disliked the image and move on with my day. Recently, however, liking the picture has forced Edge to open with a Bing search for that image, which I do not want to happen. Is there a way of disabling this automatic search?There seem to be others having the same issue, on Reddit.

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Bing Lock Screen Not Updating in WP8.1

Hi,

I'm using WP8.1 on Lumia 730. I use bing as my lock screen and it was updating daily until a couple of days ago. Since then, the lock screen stops updating.

What I have tried:

• Changing lock screen to picture, restart, and changing it back to bing. It showed gray curtain which I believe is the default 730 lock screen, and not updating in the next day.
• Changing lock screen to instagram, restart, and changing it back to bing. It showed picture of stars which I believe is the default bing lock screen and still not updating.
• Restore my phone to factory default (ouch) and set lock screen to bing. Result is the same with no.2 and not updating.
• Soft reset using vol down + power, set date time to manual, force sync my microsoft account. Result is the same with no.2 and not updating.

What I'm trying to avoid:

• Tricking it to update manually every day. Because I believe it doesn't mean to work that way.
• Bing updating only if I'm connecting to my home wifi. Because I believe it doesn't take a fiber optic internet just to download 1280x720 image.

Annoyingly, I also have an old Lumia 800 which running WP7.8 with bing lock screen updating ok. This is actually why I first noticed that my wp8.1 lock screen not updating.

 

Lock Screen keeps changing

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

Windows Spotlight picks the photos from Bing and displays them in the lock screen. I understand that you have set a picture and it is getting changed automatically.

I suggest you to follow the steps to select the Picture that you want to be displayed on the lock screen. Please follow the steps mentioned below to set a Picture to lock screen:

1. Press and hold Windows + I key on the keyboard to open settings.
   
2. Click on Personalization.
   
3. Click on Lock screen.
   
4. Click on the drop down under Background and select
   Picture.
   
5. Click on Browse and select the picture that you want to set.
   

Hope it helps.

Please reply with the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further.

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Win 10 not opening to log in screen.

You mean this yeah? (It's called a 'Lock Screen' by the way)

• What picture appears?
• Are you saying you don't actually reach the 'log in' screen?
• That you are unable to either log in or access Windows 10?

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