diff --git a/backend/app/tasks/scan.py b/backend/app/tasks/scan.py
index e7b974c..55507e8 100644
--- a/backend/app/tasks/scan.py
+++ b/backend/app/tasks/scan.py
@@ -461,13 +461,16 @@ async def _scan_all_source_roots_async():
         except Exception as e:
             logger.warning(f"Could not queue post-scan vision backfill: {e}")
 
-        # Re-extract metadata for photos missing GPS coordinates.
-        # Runs on every startup so photos scanned before the GPS fix
-        # eventually get their coordinates populated.
-        try:
-            backfill_gps.apply_async(countdown=30)
-        except Exception as e:
-            logger.warning(f"Could not queue post-scan GPS backfill: {e}")
+        # NOTE: we used to auto-queue `backfill_gps` here so photos
+        # scanned before the GPS-extraction fix would eventually get
+        # their coordinates populated. That fix shipped a long time
+        # ago, so on every modern restart it just re-ran
+        # extract_metadata for every photo that legitimately has no
+        # GPS in EXIF (screenshots, indoor shots, scans) — tens of
+        # thousands of pointless tasks that saturated worker-light
+        # for ~30 min after each deploy. Trigger manually via
+        # POST /api/v1/library/backfill-gps if you ever need it
+        # again (e.g. another extractor-logic fix lands).
 
 
 WATCHER_LOCK_KEY = "mulita:watch_folders:lock"