Snapchat is introducing new methods for customers to personalize their accounts, the corporate announced on Tuesday. The updates, that are principally out there for Snapchat+ subscribers, enable customers to do issues like design a customized home on Snap Map, share tremendous fast Snaps and edit their Bitmoji, amongst different issues.
At a time when social media corporations continue to rip off each other’s options, Snapchat is introducing new methods for customers to personalize their expertise on its app in an effort to separate itself from different platforms whereas additionally attractive individuals to join its subscription service, now utilized by 9 million individuals.
Snapchat+ subscribers can design a customized home on Snap Map that might be seen to buddies they share their location with. Snapchat is letting customers get inventive with how they create their homes, as they’ll select the type, colours and extra. As an example, you may go for a practical look or a whimsical citadel, the corporate suggests.
The brand new function is a enjoyable means for Snapchat to distinguish Snap Map from different location-based providers like Apple’s Discover My and Life360.
Subscribers can now even have their pet seem alongside their Bitmoji in chats. Whereas your pet has already been seen on Snap Map, now you can have your pet subsequent to you always on the app.
As well as, Snapchat is introducing the flexibility for customers to ship lightning-quick Snaps, letting subscribers ship or put up content material that lasts solely .10, .20 and .50 seconds. Snapchat popularized the thought of fast, bite-sized content material and is now taking that concept to new ranges.
As for normal customers, Snapchat is rolling out a brand new “dwell mirror” in its Bitmoji Builder interface that may make it simpler to pick out options that look most such as you. The concept behind the brand new addition is to make personalization simpler than beforehand potential by mechanically creating Bitmoji primarily based on what it sees within the digital camera’s viewfinder.
The corporate additionally touted its AI-powered Lenses, just like the one that permits you to look again in your five-year-old self.
