diff --git a/tecken/settings.py b/tecken/settings.py
index 621eace25..d5747f1bf 100644
--- a/tecken/settings.py
+++ b/tecken/settings.py
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ def filter(self, record):
 )
 UPLOAD_TEMPDIR_ORPHANS_CUTOFF = _config(
     "UPLOAD_TEMPDIR_ORPHANS_CUTOFF",
-    default="60",
+    default="15",
     parser=int,
     doc=(
         "Time in minutes before we consider a file to have been orphaned and should "