Published on: 2025-07-14 13:00:00
Snapchat announced on Wednesday that Snap Map now has more than 400 million monthly active users, a new milestone for one of the app’s core features. Launched in 2017, Snap Map was originally a way for users to see their friends’ locations and browse public snaps from around the world. Over time, the feature has evolved and now offers ways for users to discover local hotspots and find things to do. Snap Map’s success is important for Snapchat, as it’s a crucial part of the social network and g
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 17:46:28
A Snapchat redesign test appears to have stalled after power users seemingly disliked the "simplified" layout. The new version of Snapchat intended "to help new and casual users" navigate the app, according to Snap’s Q1 investor letter , released on April 29. As reported by TechCrunch, the overhauled app removed the Snap Map and Stories tabs. A proposed new three-tab navigation bar focused on chat, the camera and Spotlight (Snapchat’s answer to TikTok.) The report doesn’t specify how long the t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-28 01:19:42
As part of its Q1 2025 earnings release, Snap said it’s scrapping plans for a simplified version of its app. The news comes seven months after Snapchat began testing a redesigned version of the app without the Snap Map or Stories tabs. The new version consolidated the app’s navigation bar around three icons: chat, camera, and Snapchat’s TikTok competitor, Spotlight. Instead of continuing to test the simplified version, the social network is now going to begin experimenting with a “refined five
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-28 05:17:22
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Snap is backing away from plans to simplify the design of Snapchat as it reports losing 1 million users in North America. As part of its Q1 2025 earnings report on Tuesday, Snap revealed that it’s instead going to start testing a “refined” layout that keeps the app’s five existing tabs. The company first started testing the “Simple Snapchat” redesi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 16:17:39
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta just made a huge mistake. Or more accurately, a bunch of huge mistakes, which have drawn the wrath of lawyers for Meta's peers Apple, Google, and Snapchat. The issue is that during the latest phase of its massive antitrust trial, Meta lawyers presented slides revealing information it held about other companies. Though technically redacted, third party details compiled by Meta were accessible by anyone with the file — because the redactions were easily reversible. Luckil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-17 08:27:48
In Brief During Meta’s antitrust trial this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted his company’s offer to buy the social network back in 2013, Business Insider reports. Court documents revealed that Meta, then called Facebook, offered to buy Snapchat for $6 billion (reports at the time said that the dollar amount was $3 billion). In response to questioning from an FTC attorney, Zuckerberg said he thought Snapchat “wasn’t growing at the potentia
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-07 20:00:05
We're long gone from the days when the most popular Snapchat filters were the simple, adorable puppy dog face and the iconic early 2010s rainbow-vomiter. Much like other social media companies, Snapchat is diving deeper into AI and releasing new generative AI-powered video lenses for its premium users, parent company Snap said Wednesday. The announcement of the new filters isn't what's noteworthy, since any aspiring developer can use Snapchat's Lens Studio to create and share AR filters. What's
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 23:41:00
We're long gone from the days when the most popular Snapchat filters were the simple, adorable puppy dog face and the iconic early 2010s rainbow-vomiter. Much like other social media companies, Snapchat is diving deeper into AI and releasing new generative AI-powered video lenses for its premium users, parent company Snap said Wednesday. The announcement of the new filters isn't what's noteworthy, since any aspiring developer can use Snapchat's Lens Studio to create and share AR filters. What's
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-12 12:33:00
Snapchat on Wednesday announced a new feature for its users – at least for some of them. Starting today, Snapchat Platinum (the platform’s premium subscription) members will have access to new AI-generated Lenses. Snapchat gets new AI Lenses For those unfamiliar, Snapchat Lenses are essentially AR filters available in the app, so that users can take photos and videos with these live AR effects. Thanks to artificial intelligence, the Lenses will now look even more realistic. Snapchat says it’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-13 16:00:00
Snapchat is introducing its first ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap’s in-house built generative video model. The three new AI Video Lenses are available to users on the app’s premium subscription tier, Snapchat Platinum, which costs $15.99 per month. The launch comes as Snap unveiled an AI video-generation tool at its Partner Summit last September. A spokesperson for Snap said the new AI Video Lenses leverage later versions
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