How to add a cover photo to your trip
The cover is what people see in the feed and in a shared link, so it does more work than any other single field. Only the trip's owner can set it — someone invited to edit can change the content but not the trip's public face.
Add or change the cover#
Open the trip's edit screen and tap the cover area. Your photo library opens; pick an image and crop it to the frame.
The crop is wide, because that is the shape a link preview uses. A tall photo will lose its top and bottom, so choose one whose subject sits in the middle.
What gets refused, and why#
An image can be refused for three reasons:
- Too small. Anything under 600 pixels on its shortest side will look soft on a modern screen.
- An unsupported format. JPEG, PNG and the usual photo formats are fine.
- Content. Uploads are checked automatically against the community guidelines before they are stored.
If you believe a refusal was wrong, tell us.
What Ntripi removes from your photo#
Every uploaded image has its EXIF metadata stripped before it is stored. That is the block of hidden data a camera attaches — most importantly the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken, along with the device model and timestamp.
This happens whether or not the trip is public, and it cannot be switched off. A photo of your street should not publish your street.
If you don't add one#
A trip with no cover gets a generated placeholder drawn from its route, so it never looks broken.
It is worth adding a real one before sharing publicly, though — in a feed of photographs, the placeholder is the one people scroll past.