> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/news/2026/2026-11-09-rounds-larger-files-scanned.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

Rounds is the community app, separate from Backed's grant management, so this has no Help Centre
article.

## What's new

- **Bigger files.** A document in `Documents`, or a file attached to a message, can now be up to
  25 MB, where it was 4 MB. Your documents and the files you send in messages share 500 MB, where
  documents alone had 50 MB. Both limits are shown beside the upload and under a chosen file.
- **Checked before it opens.** A new document or message file shows `Scanning…` for a few seconds
  while it is checked for viruses, then becomes a download. A file that fails the check says so,
  and nobody can open it. Only a document that has passed can be attached to an application.
- **Still private.** Files are downloaded only through Rounds, by you, a current collaborator on an
  application the document is on, or the other person in the conversation. Removing a share,
  ending a connection or deleting the document stops access straight away.