When instant messaging services and photo sharing networks were becoming
popular every day, another potential concept, adding to the realm of
social networking went viral with the name Snapchat.
This app became quite a rage among teens for lesser known reasons, and
to feed the selfie-obsessed generation. Its unique feature during its
release was photos you that share get deleted from the phone after the
timer set by the sender ends.
Now many other apps have created similar clones where
instant messengers have also added the selfdestructing photo feature in
their services. You might have seen people in coffee shops sending
photos or what they call snaps to their friends making crazy faces using
the app. If you are among them, here are a few tips and tricks, to
fulfil your quest of becoming a Pro Snapchatter.
Add Colour Filters
Snapchat lets you add filters to your images in an easier way by only swiping to your left after you have taken a snap. You will have three options which include Sepia, Saturated and Black & White. Before you can use these filters, you have to enable them at Settings > Manage > Filters.
Using Fun Filters
Along with colour filters, Snapchat lets you put many fun filters to your snaps. With Geolocation, you can add your location to your snaps with good looking art. The Time filter lets you add the time you took the snap. You can also add the current temperature with the Temperature filter and toggle between Fahrenheit and Celsius with a tap.
which include Sepia, Saturation and Black & White.
Also, with the Speed filter, you can add the speed at which you’re travelling while taking the snap, though it’s still buggy. All these filters can be found by further swiping through the colour filters. They can be activated by Settings > Manage > Filters.
Add large font captions
To put emphasis to your text on your snaps, you can have larger captions. All you need to do is while typing, you have to tap the ‘T’ on the top right corner. This feature would also cause your emojis to become huge, bringing more creativity to your snaps.To enable large font captions, go to Settings > Manage > Special Text.
Replay a missed snap
While you’re viewing your received snaps, some distraction may lead to missing out on watching the snap that was sent or maybe the time set was too less. To tackle such a pain, Snapchat lets you replay a snap. But you can only replay snaps once in every 24 hours and from the last person who sent you a snap. You can enable this feature in Settings > Manage > Replay.
Increase the number of your best friends
In the My Friends page you can catch up on the latest stories shared by your friends. When you tap on a contact, a drop down shows you his/ her best friends, the ones with whom they exchange the most snaps. You can also find your best friends by tapping on your name in the My Friends page. By default it shows you three names which can be changed to five or seven in Settings > Manage > # of Best Friends.
Download and save snaps to your phone
When you open a snap, it gets deleted from your phone after the timer goes out. To save snaps the most common thing people do is take a screenshot, but they get reported to the owner of the snap, ending up in an embarrassing conversation later. In Android (Rooted users only), developers brought KeepChat, which can be installed from the Xposed Framework here. For iOS users, you can download SnapKeep from the App Store and head out to saving those snaps. Both the apps claim that no screenshots are reported.
Send images from gallery
Snapchat involves clicking and sharing photos on the go, but it would have been great if we could share other amazing photos in our gallery. With another app inside the Xposed Framework called SnapShare, you will find the Snapchat app present in your list when you tap on share to any image from your gallery. Snap Upload can be found in the App Store for iOS users.
Type longer captions
When you are adding text to your snap, space becomes an issue quite a few times becoming a hurdle to humourous captions. Once again for Android rooted users, Xposed Framework jumps in. The Snapchat Full Caption module can be found inside the framework which breaks you free from adding limited text to your snaps.
Remove from best friends list
Snapchat adds your best friends according to the number of snaps you send and receive. Removing names isn't directly allowed by Snapchat and the way around it would be to block the contact you want to remove, which will remove them from your best friends list. Then you can unblock them (only if you want to) and they won’t be present in your best friends list anymore.
Using secret colours in iOS
The color palettes in iOS and Android are different. By default, the white and black colors aren't present in the color palette on iOS devices. To get the White color, all you need to do is tap your crayon, hold down on the palette and drag your finger to the upper left corner without lifting your finger. To get the Black color, do the same and drag your finger to the bottom. Another feature unlocks the gradient in the palette, where you can hold your finger on a color and drag to your left and right to adjust the shade of the color. After selecting your color, you can drag down to get a darker shade of the same.
Use secret colors in Android
The color palette features mentioned above are only present for iOS and not for Android. But Android also has some exclusive features in its color palette. The white and black colors are present by default.
Long pressing the palette reveals more color swatches which you can choose. By holding down your finger and dragging it across you can select different colors but they come from a locked palette and not like the gradient in iOS. You can select translucent shades of different colors for highlighting and darkening purposes in Android exclusively. All you need to do is select the color by long pressing the palette.
Using front flash
Most of your snaps involve your front camera, and without a flash at the front, it is a challenge in low light areas. Snapchat has a feature where the screen flashes white when you click a photo. This feature can be enabled at Settings > Manage > Front-Facing Flash.
Toggle between front and rear camera
Changing from your front camera to your rear camera makes you reach out to the top right corner of your screen. But an easier way is to double tap on your screen to toggle between both the cameras.
View stories quicker
Viewing through each snap uploaded by a friend to a story can be tiring where you have to wait until the timer ends. To speed things up, all you need to do is keep on tapping the snaps while holding down your finger, until you finish browsing through all the snaps uploaded to the story.
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