Snapchat rolls out its end-of-year Recaps

Snapchat announced connected Monday that its end-of-year Recaps are rolling retired to users, giving them a look backmost astatine 2025. The Recap is simply a abbreviated video that offers a personalized look astatine highlights from Snaps, Stories, and Chats, showing however users connected and expressed themselves passim the year.

Users tin entree their Recap by opening up the app and navigating to the “Memories” section. There, they volition spot a “Your 2025 Snap Recap” card.

The determination comes arsenic companies similar Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Duolingo person all released their ain end-of-year recaps.

Alongside the Recaps, Snapchat shared statistic connected however radical utilized the societal media app implicit the past year. For example, the institution says telephone calls aren’t dead, noting that users talked for astir 1.7 cardinal minutes per time connected average, astir 30% much than past year. Plus, users successful the U.S. sent implicit 5 cardinal dependable notes, astir 10% much than past year.

Group chats inactive stay a fashionable mode to link connected Snapchat, arsenic the fig of radical sending messages to radical chats grew by much than 5% successful 2025, and immoderate users sent much than 8,880 messages to their apical radical chat this year.

The institution besides revealed that Chat Reactions grew by 44% this year, with the bosom emoji taking the crown arsenic the astir popular. Additionally, 3 cardinal much radical besides utilized stickers to pass this year.

The motorboat of Snap’s 2025 Recap arrives amid idiosyncratic backlash implicit the company’s plans to complaint for retention adjacent year, with some calling for a boycott to impulse the institution to alteration its mind. Snapchat announced successful September that free entree to Memories volition beryllium constricted to 5GB. If a user’s memories transcend this limit, they’ll request to subscribe to 1 of the service’s caller Memories Storage plans.

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.