Top 5 Things You Should Know about Snapchat Chat

Snapchat is one of the social media platform known for its disappearing snap and messages. It is one of the unique features of Snapchat. Even for chat, the Snapchat servers will automatically delete your chat with your friends once it was read by your Snapchat friends. You can also set your chat message to disappear after 24 hours similar to Snap stories. Even if your chat message is not opened, within 30 days it will also disappear.

Here we are going to show you the top five things you should know about Snapchat chat. This would help you if you are a Snapchat beginner and would like to explore more on the chat function of the Snapchat app.

#1 SEND A SNAPCHAT CHAT

Step 1

In your Snapchat camera screen, tap at the “Chat” icon below

Step 2

Choose any of your Snapchat friends here to start a chat

Step 3

Type your message to start chat

Tap “send” to send the chat message

Your chat conversation will be shown there

You can also audio call or video call your Snapchat friends by tapping the call icon above. You can video call up to 15 Snapchat users at once.

#2 DELETE A SNAPCHAT CHAT

Even though your chat will disappear once your friend has open it, you can also choose to delete your Snapchat chat before your friend got to see it.

Here are the steps.

Step 1

At the chat message that you have sent, tap at the message for more than 2 seconds

Step 2

A pop-up menu will be shown

Tap “Delete” to delete the message

Step 3

Tap “Delete” to confirm deleting the message

Your friend, however, will see something has been deleted in their chat screen

#3 SAVE SNAPCHAT CHAT

Even though chat will disappear in Snapchat, they can also be saved. Your friend will see that your chat has been saved.

Here are the steps

Step 1

At the chat screen, tap the message that you want to save more than 2 seconds

Step 2

A pop-up menu will be shown

Tap “Save in Chat”

This way the chat will not disappear once you closed the chat screen

#4 CREATE GROUP CHAT ON SNAPCHAT

Besides chatting one-to-one with your friends on Snapchat, you can also chat in the group. The maximum number of people you can include in a Snapchat group chat is 32 Snapchat users.

Here are the steps.

Step 1

In your chat option, tap at the “New chat” icon above

Step 2

At “New Chat”, tap “New Group” to create your group chat

Step 3

Select the friends you want to be included in the Group chat

Tap “Create Group”

You can start sending your message to the chat group

You can also name and re-name your group chat above

#5 CHAT ON SNAPCHAT GAMES

Besides the normal chat, you can also chat with your friends while playing games on Snapchat.

Here are the steps.

Step 1

In the chat screen, tap the icon of the game there besides the chat column

Step 2

A list of games will be shown

Select the games you want to play by tapping there

Step 3

Type a message there to send a chat message to your friend while you are playing the game

Tap “Leave” if you want to end the game and also the chat

So, there you have it – Five things you should know about Snapchat chat. Please leave us a comment below on what other things you would like to learn about Snapchat chat.

If you are a beginner to Snapchat, please read our previous article on how to use Snapchat for beginners here.