Snapchat is popular for its unique chat and video calling experience. It offers many features to encourage friendships and maintain that bond with your existing friends. If you’re having trouble remembering birthdays, Snapchat can help you with that, too. So how do you find someone’s birthday on Snapchat? So how can you look at upcoming birthdays? Let’s find out!
How to Find a Friend’s Birthday on Snapchat
Snapchat’s clean user interface lets you quickly navigate the app and find the feature you want. Seeing your friend’s birthday on Snapchat is just as easy. Here’s how you can do this:
- Launch Snapchat and Chats icon It’s below the Snapchat camera button.
- Tap your friend’s Bitmoji to go to their profile.
- Your friends’ birthdays will be displayed under their Snapchat username and display name, provided they have the birthday party feature enabled.
- You can tap on the birthdays to view the list of all previous and upcoming birthdays.
Note that you can only view the birthdays of your friends who have the birthday party option enabled in their profile settings.
How Cake Emoji and Birthday Party Work on Snapchat
Snapchat lets you add your birthday to your profile with its birthday party feature. When enabled, a cake emoji and a birthday version Bitmoji will appear with your name on your birthday.
- Open Snapchat and Bitmoji To go to your Snapchat profile
- Tap gear icon given in the upper right corner.
- Tap on Birthday under Settings.
- Tap on the next screen. Birthday party checkbox.
When you do this, your date of birth will be displayed under your profile. Apart from that, a cake emoji will be added next to your name on your birthday.
Another exciting aspect of the birthday party feature is the Snapchat birthday filters. Your friends can add these filters to your birthday snapshots to send you personalized birthday wishes and make your day even more special.
Can You View Someone’s Birthday On Snapchat Even If They Aren’t Your Friend?
Like any other social media app, Snapchat takes user privacy seriously and won’t let you view the birthday of someone who isn’t in your friends list. So to view anyone’s birthday on Snapchat, you must add them as a friend. Also, as we mentioned above, your friends’ Snapchat profiles will only show their birthdays if they have the birthday party option enabled under the settings. If any of your friends have disabled this option, their birthdays will remain hidden.
Don’t Just Rely on Snapchat to Remember Birthdays
Snapchat makes it easy to find your friends’ birthdays and wish them their special day. However, if any of your friends haven’t activated the birthday party option, the cake emoji will not be added next to their name on their birthday and you may miss this emoji. So use a reminder app on your phone to set birthday reminders for all your special friends.
FAQ
A. You can visit your profile to find the birthday setting on Snapchat. Under your profile, go to Settings > Birthday > Birthday party.
A. To see upcoming birthdays on Snapchat, go to chats and tap your friend’s Bitmoji to go to their profile and tap their birthday. When you tap on the birthdays, a list of all past and future birthdays will be displayed under Birthdays.
