Snapchat is going to charge for storage — here’s how to save your Memories for free

Nearly a decennary aft becoming a integer clip capsule for your life’s moments, Snapchat is acceptable to enactment a terms connected its Memories feature. The institution announced past week that it’s capping escaped Memories retention astatine 5GB.

If your Memories transcend the limit, you volition request to either export them oregon motion up for 1 of Snapchat’s caller Memories Storage plans successful bid to sphere them.

The institution told TechCrunch successful an email that the introductory retention program offers up to 100GB of retention for $1.99 per month. Snapchat+ users volition get up to 250GB of retention arsenic portion of their $3.99 monthly subscription, portion Snapchat Platinum users volition get 5TB arsenic portion of their $15.99 monthly subscription.

If you’re implicit the bounds but don’t motion up for a plan, your oldest Snaps volition beryllium saved, portion the astir caller ones volition beryllium deleted to enactment wrong the retention limit.

Although the institution has fixed users 12 months of impermanent retention for Memories that transcend the 5GB limit, immoderate users are proactively choosing to export their Memories alternatively of paying up.

We’ll locomotion you done the 2 options you person for preserving your Snapchat Memories.

Export your Snapchat Memories to your device’s camera roll

One mode to prevention your Snapchat Memories is by downloading them to your camera roll. Although this tin beryllium done straight from your phone, you’re constricted to batches of 100 astatine a time, which tin beryllium a time-consuming task if you person thousands of saved Snaps.

However, this could beryllium a bully mode of selecting the Snaps you really privation to save.

Here’s what you request to do:

• Open the Snapchat app and prime the “Memories” icon adjacent to the camera button
• Tap the “Select” enactment successful the apical close corner
• Select up to 100 Memories that you privation to keep
• Tap the “Export” fastener that appears astatine the bottom-right of your screen
• Select “Download” to prevention them to your camera roll

Repeat this process to prevention different batch of 100 Memories.

Download your Snapchat data

If you don’t privation to walk clip exporting your Memories successful batches of 100, you tin usage Snapchat’s “Download My Data” instrumentality to prevention your Memories archive and get it emailed to you successful a .zip file.

Here’s what you request to do:

• Open the Snapchat app and navigate to your Profile
• Tap the Settings icon successful the top-right of your screen
• Scroll down to find the “My Data” option
• Select the Memories, HTML Files, and JSON Files options. (Uncheck the options beneath unless you besides privation to prevention further information, specified arsenic your chat history, idiosyncratic data, and more. Just support successful mind, it mightiness beryllium harder to find your Memories aboriginal successful the .zip file).
• Tap “Next”
• Select the “All Time” enactment erstwhile prompted to take a day scope for the export
• Confirm your email code
• Tap “Submit”

The clip it takes to person your information whitethorn alteration depending connected however overmuch you person stored.