Everything you need to know about Snapchat Memories
Yesterday, Snapchat began rolling out a new feature to the app called Moments. It seemed like a simple enough concept — a gallery of your Snaps and Stories backed up to your Snapchat account — but people fear change, especially when it’s something they’re already so familiar with. It can be a bit… unsettling. Needless to say, there were a lot of questions and Snapchat’s initial blog post didn’t answer very many of them, something you wouldn’t be able to truly grasp until you actually played around with it.
With the update now rolling out to most users, we thought it’d be good to walk you through Memories, exploring all the steps on how it works, what it is, what it isn’t, and even some of the options available for it. Let’s get started.
With Memories, you can also create entirely new Stories from old Snaps and Stories. To get started, just tap on the check button in the upper right corner of the Memories screen and choose the individual Snaps or Stories (with all the Snaps therein) you’d like to compile into an all new Story.
Pressing the “circle +” icon from the bottom bar will compile it into a new Story that stays inside of Memories, while pressing the arrow icon will post publicly to your Story or allow you to share with individual friends.
You can also send an individual Snap from inside a saved Story. All you have to do is long press on the Story and scroll left/right to locate the desired Snap. From there, you can tap the pencil icon to edit the Snap with the usual options and once everything is looking good, press the blue arrow button to re-post it to your Story, or send directly to a friend.
You can even add more Snaps to a saved Story inside of Memories by long pressing on the Story, tapping the menu button in the top left corner, choosing Add Snaps to this Story. From there, tap on saved Snaps to select them, then hit the Add to Story button at the bottom. At that point you can re-post the newly edited Story or send it directly to a friend as usual.