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Duplicate lock icon besides the default on the lock screen (M21, Android 12)

(Topic created on: 05-02-2023 11:24 PM)
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Samsonguser
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This happened about a few days ago, I was watching some videos and had to get up to get something, so locked the screen before going as is my habit, when I came back I had a notification which is why my screen was turned on the lock screen, but my attention went to a duplicate padlock icon on the left of the og lock icon which had a sort of protruding thingy next to it, like a landscape or something, something that would resemble a gallery icon in android, I clicked on it, nothing happened, clicked on it again and it disappeared. I turned on my phone to the home screen and saw that whatsapp was on besides the other apps, my whatsapp is locked with my fingerprint which also can be seen from the apps in memory, so I thought it must be a new UI thing from the whatsapp team, so I tried to emulate it but it did not happen again. Funnily, I never saw that lock icon again after that first incident. Nothing seems out of whack with my phone so I do not think it was malicious, but I am kind of concerned what could that anomaly of a duplicate lock icon be? , a bug perhaps?. I tried searching on google and samsung forums but found next to nothing. I am sorry I have given next to nothing, but this is about the only information I have. Hope somebody can shed a light on this mystery, as I am not going to lie its kind of bugging me since it happened.


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Duplicate padlock icon to the left screenshot


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Galaxy M
Once turn off wallpaper services and restart your device

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Galaxy M
Check wallpaper services like glance
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Samsonguser
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I have done that as requested by members of a tech forum where I had initially posted this question
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Once turn off wallpaper services and restart your device
Samsonguser
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Turning off 'glance on samsung' and enabling wallpaper services to none solves the 'problem'. Turning glance on samsung on and long pressing on the lock screen was the reason the padlock icon came, probably signifying that the wallpaper was locked in or something. Thanks
piyussh07
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When you came back, which notification came & from which app?
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Samsonguser
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Do not really remember, but probably whatsapp
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