How Present works.

Yes, they can. Present verifies capture, not context. A real photo or video of a screen is still a real capture. Present scans every post for abnormalities, and if anything looks out of the ordinary it's flagged in the app and the verification page so you can judge for yourself. We also reject images with too much text.

We tell you. Publicly, immediately, with the affected records marked.

Every post gets one. 140 characters, typed in the app. No paste, for the same reason there is no import: what you post here, you made.

It's gone. The link resolves to a simple notice that the post was deleted, nothing else, nothing tied back to the account.

No. Connections go both ways or not at all.

Public accounts have a viewable connections list. Private accounts don't, and they're also left out of every other list, so being private means nobody can map who you know. The one exception is mutual connections: if someone is connected to both you and the person viewing, they'll show, because the viewer already knows them.

Disconnect, any time. It ends the connection for both of you, and they aren't told. They'll see your profile the way anyone else does, with a button to connect again if they want to, and you can ignore that. If you need something firmer than that, block them.

No. Search finds people by exact username, or people your connections know. There's no way to browse by interest or see what's popular. Present isn't built for finding strangers.

Not really, that's what text messages are for. Every post has a conversation under it, with whoever turns up. A fresh group chat each time, started by something that actually happened.

They need a way to reach people who don't know them, and there isn't one here. Nothing is ranked or recommended, there are no hashtags, and there is no popular page to climb. A campaign would reach exactly the people who had already agreed to connect with it.

What we don't claim is that a real person can't say something untrue. We can verify the post, but not why it was taken.

Your friends put them there. When a friend tags you in a post, it lands on your profile once you accept it, taken by them, verified like everything else. There is no separate section for posts you're tagged in, they sit with your own. The photos of you here were taken by the people you were actually with.

Yes. Take it, tag them, and if you're not in it you can hide it from your own profile. It lives on theirs and reaches their friends, with you credited as the photographer and getting the replies. Most people leave it on their own profile, but the option is there.

Tag them and, once they accept, the photo lives on their profile and shows in their friends' feeds, with you credited as the photographer. If you're in it too, it lives on yours as well. If you're not in it, it lands on your profile too by default, and you can choose to hide it there so it goes only to them. Half the photos of you were taken by someone else; that's how profiles fill up here. Since every photo is captured live, the photos of you are taken by the people you're actually with.

Only at the moment you shoot, and only while the app is open. Your exact position stays on your phone unless you choose Precise for a photo. Otherwise Present shares an approximate area, or nothing at all.

Batched, on your schedule. Pick how often you want to hear from us, and we'll bundle everything into one check-in. Quiet day, no notification at all.

Every account starts private. Under-18 accounts stay that way, no exceptions, until they turn 18. From 18 you can make yours public, and switch back, at any time.

Private means your profile and your photos are visible to your connections, and that Present asks you to confirm before anything of yours goes further, such as creating a public link. It doesn't cover everything you appear in. A photo a friend takes of you carries their settings rather than yours. You choose whether to accept or decline the tag: accept and it joins your profile, decline and it doesn't, and either way the photo stays theirs. A photo you create a public link for is readable by anyone holding that link.

You'll be asked first. Creating a public link means that one photo becomes publicly accessible at its own link. Your profile stays private and visible only to your connections, nothing else changes.

Inside the app, you're invisible to each other. Profiles, photos, and replies disappear in both directions. Posts from mutual connections stay visible, since those posts are theirs, but your tag on them is hidden from the person you've blocked, and theirs from you. Blocking can't pull back a public link, though. If a photo already has one, whether from a public account or a private one that was shared, anyone can still open it directly, blocked or not.

No. It's a pro-proof app.

Yes. Six seconds of it, captured in the app like everything else. You get ten minutes to make those six seconds, in as many clips as you like, and they join together in the order you took them. Undo drops the last clip you shot. Every clip is sealed on the phone the same way a photo is.

There is no ranked feed or recommendation system. You connect with people and see the posts they make, in the order they happened. The aim is to show you what your friends are doing, not to work out what will keep you scrolling. Sorting by time is still code, so strictly speaking there is one. What people mean by "the algorithm" is the part that ranks posts by engagement and mixes in strangers, and there is none of that here. See My Feed, My Way.

Port Macquarie, Australia. The first country to ban under-16s from social media.

16 and up, everywhere. We don't believe social media belongs in anyone's life younger than that.

iOS first, invite only. You'll need a code from a friend who's already on it.

You need an invite code from a friend who's already on Present. Download the app, sign up with your code, and you and the friend who invited you are connected from the moment you land.

No. The rule is that a photo can prove where it came from, and right now the app's camera is the only way to do that. As more hardware signs its own captures, phones and proper cameras alike, those get let in too, including photos you took before you'd heard of us. What never gets let in is anything that can't prove itself.