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What is Snapchat Memories?

How does Snapchat Memories work?

  • Once Snapchat has updated with Memories, open the app, and you’ll see the camera view. Take a snap by tapping or holding the capture button at the bottom of the camera view. In the bottom corner of your snap preview, tap the save/download button (next to the timer button). This will save your snap to Memories.

  • Memories lives below the camera view. Just swipe up from the camera view to open it. On the Memories screen, you will see a search button in the top corner, followed by a menu bar that consists of several tabs: All (shows all your saved photos and videos), Snaps (shows just your snaps), Stories (shows just your stories), Camera Roll (shows your phone’s complete camera roll), My Eyes Only (shows your locked memories). From any of these tabs, tap and hold a snap to enable new interactions, such as editing, adding geofilters and timestamps, sharing to your current story, creating a new story by selecting multiple snaps, sending snaps to friends as a message attachment, and exporting.

  • Open Memories, then tap the search button in the top corner. Type keywords like “dog” or “Hawaii” to search for snaps that feature a dog or Hawaii beaches, etc. Obviously, search uses object recognition (done on your phone, not in Snapchat’s cloud) in order to detect what’s in your snaps and serve up the right photos/videos.

  • Open Memories, then tap and hold any snap to bring up a menu with new interactions. Tap the ‘Move to My Eyes Only’ option. Now, to access locked memory in the future, you have to type in a PIN code (which you’ll set when Memories rolls out), and if you forget your PIN, Snapchat won’t recover the locked memory. Keep in mind Memories lets you physically share snaps - by simply handing your phone to another person and letting them swipe through your memories. My Eyes Only now lets you comfortably share your phone with that person, as it hides embarrassing or explicit snaps.

Does Snapchat now backup from your camera roll?

When will Snapchat Memories be available?

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