# Automatically apply grids to image uploads

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-apply-grids-to-image-uploads/394784
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [January 30, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-apply-grids-to-image-uploads/394784 "2026-01-30T19:25:55Z")
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### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-apply-grids-to-image-uploads/394784/2 "2026-01-31T18:26:16Z")

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I mentioned back in 2024:

> [@Turning off auto-grid-images?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turning-off-auto-grid-images/335450/14):
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> Auto-gridding crops the images a user uploads rather dramatically, chopping the edges off and turning landscape photos in to portrait photos to the naked eye 😢

While this feature is still in experimental, are there any plans to better support the gridding of landscape orientation photos? 🙏 🙂

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