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How to Make Your Snapchat Account Private – My Media Social

How to Make Your Snapchat Account Private

How to Make Your Snapchat Account Private

If you are one of those who like to control their online privacy, you would also want to ensure that your Snapchat account. There are many reasons people want to make their Snapchat account private. However, the settings are probably different compared to other social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

However, before you are considering to change the privacy settings, here are some of the reasons people might have to change their Snapchat account to private.

WHY MAKE YOUR SNAPCHAT ACCOUNT PRIVATE?

  1. To avoid unrelated people viewing their Snapchat stories
  2. To keep your videos and pictures from being seen by strangers
  3. To prevent images, videos or post being misused by someone you do not know
  4. To share a sensitive or controversial post without any judgement from people you do not want them to know

So, if you are interested in changing your Snapchat settings to private, here are the steps

REMOVE YOURSELF FROM SNAPCHAT QUICK ADD

The Snapchat quick add allows people to see mutual friends that you might have between your existing friends on Snapchat. If you do not want the friends of your friends to know your Snapchat account, you need to disable the Snaphat quick add so your username will not appear anywhere.

Here are the steps.

Remove Yourself from Snapchat quick add 1

Step 1

Open Snapchat. Go to settings by tapping the settings icon here

Step 2

At Settings, go to “See me in Quick Add.”

Remove Yourself from Snapchat quick add 2

Disable the Quick Add function by tapping the button to the left.

Your Snapchat username will not be shown to other mutual friends that you have with your current Snapchat friends.

REMOVE YOURSELF FROM CONTACTS

If your mobile number is in any of your friend’s contact number in their mobile phone, they can also see your Snapchat account based on that contact details. So, to avoid people you do not want to know that you have Snapchat account based on your mobile number, you can always disable this.

Here are the steps.

Remove Yourself from Contacts

Step 1

In Snapchat settings, tap “Contact Me.”

Step 2

Tap “My Friends” so that your Snapchat account can only be contacted by your friends only.

LIMIT PEOPLE WHO CAN VIEW YOUR SNAPCHAT STORIES

Even though Snapchat stories will disappear in 24 hours, you may also do not want other people to see it if you are careful about your content privacy.

If you want to limit the people who can view your stories, here are the steps. 

Limit People Who Can View Your Snapchat Stories

Step 1

Go to Settings. Tap “View My Story”

Step 2

At “My Story”, choose “My Friends” only

ENABLE GHOST MODE ON SNAPCHAT

In Snapchat, people can also see your location based on Snapchat Map or Snap Map. Snapchat uses the GPS in your phone to show your real-time location whenever you are using Snapchat. If you do not want people to see your location, you can disable it and change into Ghost Mode.

Here are the steps.

Enable Ghost Mode on Snapchat

Step 1

Go to Settings. Tap “See My Location”

Step 2

Enable Ghost Mode to block anyone from seeing your location

So, there you have it. Four simple ways how to make your Snapchat account private. Please leave us a comment on what are the reason you want to make your Snapchat account private.

Please read our previous article on how to block someone on Snapchat.