How to Access Snapchat Memories
Snapchat Memories allows you to both save snaps you take through the Snapchat app and upload existing photos/videos from your device. Here’s how to easily access the Memories feature in Snapchat: A new tab labeled Memories will slide up from the bottom of the screen showing a grid of snaps if you saved any. If you didn’t save any yet, this tab will be blank.
How to Start Uploading Your Photos and Videos
To upload something from your device, you have to use the Memories feature. You can make edits to images in the SnapChat app. If you’re sending a video, you can trim it within Snapchat, disable sound, add text, and draw over it before you send it.
Snapchat’s Formatting of Uploaded Photos and Videos
You might notice that some of the photos and videos you decide to upload to Snapchat look different than the ones you take directly through the app. For example, some may appear cropped with black edges all around them while others might be zoomed in with the outer edges cut off. Snapchat will do its best to make your photo or video look good enough to send, but because it wasn’t taken directly through the app, it won’t necessarily look perfect.
Third-Party Workaround Apps Blocked
Before the Memories feature was introduced, there used to be several apps available from third-party developers that claimed to help Snapchat users upload photos or videos to Snapchat. Snapchat has since banned third-party apps, stating that it’s a violation of Snapchat’s Terms of Use.
