Guide to use Snapchat

Explore Tips and Tricks Guide to use Snapchat in a Smart way.

Snapchat, one of the hottest mobile messaging apps, has become a convenient and fun way to send photos and videos to friends and family without eating up your phone's memory.

If you want to join the Snapchat craze and learn the basics, check out this step-by-step guide.

1. Download and sign up
2. Add contacts
3. Set personal preferences
4. Create snaps
5. Send your snap
6. View received snaps
7. Create and send Stories
8. View Stories
9. Live Chat
10. View your Snapchat Score

Complete guide to Snapchat including lenses, geofilters, face swap, clone tool and more

Snapchat is one of the social media success stories and is here to say. It seems like the simple ideas really are the best with the ability to send photos and video that are only available for a few seconds a real hit. Here's our complete guide to Snapchat and how to use Snapchat including Face Swap, lenses, filters, geofilters and on PC. Also see: Snapchat phone rumours

If you're in any doubt as to Snapchat's success then get your head round the fact is has more than 100 million daily users globally. Although it started with just photos, it now records 8 billion video views per day and has even launched its own smartglasses called Snapchat Spectacles.
Following its success, Snapchat gave the iOS and Android apps a makeover with an improved, cleaner user interface and the introduction of a handful of new features.

Snapchat update: What's new in the redesigned Snapchat?
Following a successful 2016, Snapchat released an update (10.0) in January 2017 that overhauled the Snapchat UI, and introduced a handful of new features to the app. So, what's different? Apart from the obvious changes in design on the Chat and Story pages, there's a new Search bar available on the Camera section of the app. Tap the Search bar to bring up a Quick Chat window that displays the people you've recently spoken to via Snapchat. Simply tap on the profile icon of the person you want to speak to, and you'll be taken to the relevant Snapchat chat.