Bing’s “image of the day” really does change every 24 hours, but there are a few common reasons you might keep seeing the same one:
1. Caching (browser or app) • Your browser (or wallpaper-setter app) may be holding onto yesterday’s image. Try a “hard refresh” (Ctrl+F5 on Windows, Cmd+Shift+R on Mac) or clear your browser cache. • If you’re using the official Bing Wallpaper app (Windows), it caches the last download. Restart the app or reinstall it to force a fresh fetch.
2. Time-zone / update window • Bing rolls over its daily image at around midnight UTC. If you’re in a time zone west of UTC (Americas), your “new” image won’t appear until late evening local time. • Check Bing’s server time by visiting https://www.bing.com on a different device or via a VPN in another region.
3. API parameters (if you’re using a script or third-party widget) • The most common endpoint is: https://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1 – idx=0 always returns “today’s” image (which may not have rolled over yet). – If you leave that request cached or don’t re-call it after UTC midnight, you’ll see the same picture. • Solution: schedule your script to hit the endpoint after 00:00 UTC, or add a dummy cache-busting query parameter (e.g. &ts=UNIX_TIMESTAMP).
4. Windows Spotlight getting “stuck” If you’re on Windows 10/11 and using Spotlight as your lock-screen wallpaper: • Open Settings → Personalization → Lock screen → choose “Spotlight.” • If it never changes, you can reset Spotlight by deleting its asset cache: 1. Open File Explorer and paste: %USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewySettings 2. Delete the files in there. 3. Then go back to Settings and switch off Spotlight, reboot, and switch it back on.
5. Offline or firewall blocking • If your machine can’t reach bing.com’s image server (corporate firewall, ad-blocker, Pi-hole), it’ll keep re-showing the last successful download. • Test by opening https://www.bing.com in a private/incognito window.
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Quick checklist: 1) Hard-refresh or clear cache. 2) Wait until after 00:00 UTC in your time zone. 3) If you’re scripting, add a cache-buster and hit the “idx=0” endpoint once per day. 4) For Windows Spotlight, reset its cache. 5) Make sure nothing’s blocking bing.com from updating.
Once those are out of the way, you should see a fresh Bing wallpaper every day!
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Bing’s “image of the day” really does change every 24 hours, but there are a few common reasons you might keep seeing the same one:
1. Caching (browser or app)
• Your browser (or wallpaper-setter app) may be holding onto yesterday’s image. Try a “hard refresh” (Ctrl+F5 on Windows, Cmd+Shift+R on Mac) or clear your browser cache.
• If you’re using the official Bing Wallpaper app (Windows), it caches the last download. Restart the app or reinstall it to force a fresh fetch.
2. Time-zone / update window
• Bing rolls over its daily image at around midnight UTC. If you’re in a time zone west of UTC (Americas), your “new” image won’t appear until late evening local time.
• Check Bing’s server time by visiting https://www.bing.com on a different device or via a VPN in another region.
3. API parameters (if you’re using a script or third-party widget)
• The most common endpoint is:
https://www.bing.com/HPImageArchive.aspx?format=js&idx=0&n=1
– idx=0 always returns “today’s” image (which may not have rolled over yet).
– If you leave that request cached or don’t re-call it after UTC midnight, you’ll see the same picture.
• Solution: schedule your script to hit the endpoint after 00:00 UTC, or add a dummy cache-busting query parameter (e.g. &ts=UNIX_TIMESTAMP).
4. Windows Spotlight getting “stuck”
If you’re on Windows 10/11 and using Spotlight as your lock-screen wallpaper:
• Open Settings → Personalization → Lock screen → choose “Spotlight.”
• If it never changes, you can reset Spotlight by deleting its asset cache:
1. Open File Explorer and paste:
%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewySettings
2. Delete the files in there.
3. Then go back to Settings and switch off Spotlight, reboot, and switch it back on.
5. Offline or firewall blocking
• If your machine can’t reach bing.com’s image server (corporate firewall, ad-blocker, Pi-hole), it’ll keep re-showing the last successful download.
• Test by opening https://www.bing.com in a private/incognito window.
---
Quick checklist:
1) Hard-refresh or clear cache.
2) Wait until after 00:00 UTC in your time zone.
3) If you’re scripting, add a cache-buster and hit the “idx=0” endpoint once per day.
4) For Windows Spotlight, reset its cache.
5) Make sure nothing’s blocking bing.com from updating.
Once those are out of the way, you should see a fresh Bing wallpaper every day!
command: !ask is powered by witness @justyy and his contributions are: https://steemyy.com
More commands are coming!.
!ask is currently based on Grok LLM and ChatGPT. (default=o4-mini, prefix question with chatgpt or grok if you like, e.g. !ask grok Your Question)