10 Useful Snapchat Tips & Tricks You Don't Yet Know

We've covered a great deal about various tricks on Snapchat including how to increase your Snapchat score.

In this post, we'll take a look at some new and useful Snapchat tricks that you probably not yet know.

An update: you can now use swap faces using Snapchat.

1. Drawing with a white color

To draw on a snap you're about to send, hold your finger down to the screen and slide to the left. This will change the color to white. You can then draw on the pic. The colors on iPhone may however be limited.

Snapchat Best Friends: Everything You Need To Know

Snapchat is slowly growing to be among the hottest social apps in the industry, but there are certainly some unanswered questions regarding several features of this photo sharing app. For one, the best friends feature of Snapchat is still a mystery to many of us.

This post is a little outdated. Please refer to Snapchat Emojis (click here) for a new March 2016 update.

In this post, I'll try to make you understand everything there is to know about Snapchat best friends and how you can alter the list.

Learn about the new Snapchat Lens that's making headlines: Face Swap.

How To Remove Recent Friends On Snapchat [Tutorial]

​Snapchat features a list of your best friends and a recent list of people you last chat with on your friends list. This can be seen on top of the screen that displays your friends list after you take a snap. The purpose of these two features -- best friends and recent list -- is to enable an easy navigation, or a shortcut if you will, for you to send your snap to people you're most likely to snapchat with, that is your best friends and people you recently communicate ​​with.

The Snapchat best friends list displays 3 people that you chat with most frequently in the past week and is determined by a 'magical' Snapchat algorithm taking into account your chat score with that person. The recent list however is simply a log of 5 friends that you last chat with. Both these lists are displayed on top of your friends list (which is displayed alphabetically) for easy access.

Read:
1. How to use Snapchat Filters
2. Snapchat Filters HQ

How To Remove Phone Number On Snapchat [Tutorial]

​Snapchat like most other social communication apps use your mobile phone number for finding new friends, but is not a necessity. In fact, it is not advisable to associate your number with your Snapchat account in the first place. With the already existing privacy issues and controversies surrounding Snapchat, giving out your phone number may land you in a spot you don't want to find yourself in, let alone sending out your more-than-average pics.

There is no need to associa​​te your phone number with your Snapchat account as you can always find friends by accessing your existing contacts list on your phone using the Find Friends icon in the bottom right corner of your screen, or alternatively by typing out their name or username on the pop-up screen of the My Friends menu by scrolling up. And your friends can always find you by this existing methods without having to enter your phone number.

How To Delete Your Snapchat Friends [Tutorial]

Using Snapchat may be a little daunting for the novice user, but like all things in life it can easily be mastered. And like all things in social apps, adding and deleting friends can be done with a breeze.

Snapchat is steadily growing to be the hottest mobile app in the world and there's good reason for it. The photo/video sharing app is packed with simple but amazing features; and when it comes to friends lists, you're provided with a one-click option of adding, renaming, blocking and deleting friends.

How To Access Expired Photos In Snapchat [Tutorial]

Update: A new and updated article has been posted here: Save Snapchat Snaps

Accessing your photos in Snapchat can be done in several ways. But first, you'll have to understand the concept of how photo messaging works in this much-talked-about social application.

Unlike conventional photo/video sharing apps, Snapchat does not store or keep track of all the photos and videos (called snaps) that you've shared with your friends. When you send a snap, you're provided with the option of setting a time limit on how long it gets displayed on your friends' phone. And when your friends have viewed it, the snap disappears -- that is unless they had taken a screenshot of the snap. All snaps die after a certain period of time.

How To Remove Or Hide Best Friends In Snapchat

Editor's NOTE: This post is outdated. Please refer to Snapchat Emojis click here for a new March 2016 update on Snapchat best friends.

April 2017 UPDATE: Snapchat has released a new version of Best Friends. Read all about the new Snapchat Best Friends here.

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1. Snapchat Score

'Best Friends' is a feature in Snapchat that lists people you communicate with most frequently. If you snapchat with someone more often than others, that someone will be featured on the list of your best friends alongside other two people that you chat with most. The best friends list is displayed on your profile and features a score that indicates the number of snaps you've sent to that person in the last 7 days.

The best friends list is updated every week and displays 3 people that you communicate with most often within the week. However, the list can be extended to accommodate 5 people by using the code "sopopular..." (note lowercase and ellipsis at the end). This secret code is entered into the text field after taking a photo after which you proceed to your friends list and hit refresh.

Snapchat has disabled the best friends feature, it has come up with a new feature called Snapchat Friend Emojis.

Also, a new Snapchat emoji that's driving people crazy: the snapchat hourglass emoji.

To know everything about the new Snapchat, follow the link.

Snapchat's latest update in January 2014 now enables increasing this number to 5 or 7. See our new post on Snapchat Best Friends for a complete guide.