Snapchat is one of the most popular social networks in the world. The app has a fresh and innovative feel that makes it fun to use every day. While its competitors, particularly Instagram (owned by Facebook), continue to copy Snapchat’s features, the service continues to innovate and remains one of our favorite daily activities. Snapchat is far from perfect as any Android user can tell you, but among the creative AR lenses, ease of use when it comes to creating custom geofilters, new ideas like the Snap Map that shares your location live with friends, privacy, and the sense of spontaneity the app offers, our friends and family It’s no wonder we love using Snapchat to send photos and videos.
Of course, all this means that learning how to use Snapchat as an app can be pretty tough. Many options and features on Snapchat, old or new, cannot be explained; this means users have to refer to other users or online articles (like this one!) to understand how the app works. One of the biggest complications comes with sending photos. Snapchat’s hallmark has gotten a lot more sophisticated in recent years as additional chat options have been added to the app. Now, instead of just posting a photo once, you can send multiple galleries to both single and group chats at once, and even publish your story at once using an offline workaround. With this change, Snapchat acts more like a messaging app than ever before, making it easier to share photos from your gallery with loved ones than using standard text messaging.
Here’s how to send multiple images at once to your family, friends, and Snapchat story. Let’s have a look.
Sending Multiple Photos in Chat
Unlike standard Snaps, sending multiple photos to Snapchat at once forces you to use the chat option within the app. Instead of using your viewfinder, swipe right to open your list of conversations about connections you’ve made in the app, listed in chronological order from the last time you contacted the contact. To select a user, simply tap their name in the chat to open the chat conversation log. Snapchat has added a lot to this display over the past few years since direct text messaging was first added in 2014, including the ability to make audio and video calls and send pictures directly from your gallery. Tap the gallery icon at the bottom of the screen to open your phone’s pictures. This will display every photo on your phone in a vertical list, replacing the area that typically shows your phone’s keyboard.
From here you can scroll through your gallery to find the photos you want to post. When you find a photo, you have two options. The first option by pressing and holding the photo will open the standard Snapchat editor for the image. Here you can draw on the photo, add geofilters, tags, Bitmoji or anything your heart desires before sending it to any user. But since we want to send multiple photos at once, we will have to leave them unedited to focus on sending the photos from the gallery from our phone. Instead of holding down the image, simply tap each photo as you scroll vertically down the menu. Each image you select will have a blue checkmark appearing in the corner of the screen.
Once you’ve selected your photos (there seems to be no limit to the number of photos you can send from your phone’s gallery), hit the send icon to the right of your photos. This will send your gallery selections inside the chat window as a bulk message that can be viewed by your recipient as a gallery within the app. Once they move away from the photos you’ve sent, the images will disappear, just like any other message within Snapchat will do.
If you want to post a photo in a group chat within Snapchat, the gallery method works the same way, with one major exception. All messages sent in a group chat can be viewed 24 hours before they expire, meaning that pictures you send on the group’s Snapchats can be viewed much longer than usual. If this is a problem, it’s better to send your photos from your gallery one by one via the standard Snap editor, as they will disappear normally.
Send Multiple Snaps to Your Story at Once
In previous versions of Snapchat, you had to follow a certain workaround to post multiple images to your Story at once; previously, a routine that involved putting your device in airplane mode and slowly uploading pictures to your Story (let the upload fail). by re-enabling your internet connection and allowing the Stories you’ve created to be published all at once. While this was a good workaround for the time, Snapchat has finally made it a little easier for users to get their photos into the service without having to disable your phone’s wireless capabilities, thanks to the addition of the Memories view within Snapchat. Likewise, Snapchat’s revised interface allows users to more easily share and post their stories without having to long-press on their photos, as in our previous guide.
Open Memories
In case you didn’t know, Memories is the section of Snapchat dedicated to your Snapchat memory bank (photos you save to Snapchat’s cloud service, usually from your Story, or save an image or video before sending it to someone as a snapshot or video), the gallery view on your phone, and the private one hidden from your typical photo library. “My Eyes Only” section for pictures. With this feature, you can finally automatically add old snapshots and photos to a Story all at once, without having to rely on an outdated workaround.
To kickstart your story, open the Memories view by tapping the small photos icon (it looks like two overlapping rectangles) under the shutter button in the camera viewfinder. Memories are divided into three separate tabs as described above: Snaps, Camera Roll, and My Eyes Only with password protection. You can use this method with any of the three tabs and you are not limited to just one tab. You can add photos from all three sections of Memories inside Snapchat or stick with just one. Tap the checkmark-circle icon in the upper-right corner of your screen to start selecting photos. You will see the interface change to “Select…” and a reddish-pink bar will appear at the bottom of your screen. This means you’re in multi-select mode, which you should use to add multiple photos or videos to your Story at once.
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All three tabs are available for selecting photos for this option, with the first photo you select highlighted with a pink checkmark. You can select any photo, video, or screenshot from your phone, including both the Photos and Camera Roll tabs (My Eyes Only is also accessible, but you probably wouldn’t, given the privacy concerns of snapshots usually kept in this folder). I want to send them to Snapchat). As with the chat method described above, you can select or deselect as many Snaps as you want to add to your story. And unlike Snapchat’s old method of choosing a picture to start with before moving on to the rest, you can select and deselect photos as needed.
After selecting your images and videos, look for the circle plus icon at the bottom of the screen. This will automatically create a new Story inside Memories, but it will not be published to your account yet. The story will be automatically tagged with the dates the photos were taken, and you can tap the Story screen to view the photos and give your story a name. If you tap the menu button on the far right of your screen, you’ll notice there’s an option to “Add to This Story”, which means you can add additional photos after the event. From this menu you can also post and name your Story, save photos to your camera roll, export photos, delete story and move images to My Eyes Only. Finally, at the bottom of this menu, you’ll see the “Post Story” option that lets you put your photo collection on your story all at once. After tapping “Submit Story” you will be taken to the “Submit…” screen. You will have to manually check “My Story” and you can also select your friends from your contact list to send your newly created Story.
What else?
After you submit your story, it is sent to your device just like any other image collection. Each image or video will be listed as its own upload, but all will be posted at the same time. Snapshots originally taken on Snapchat (listed as Memories) will be added as regular snapshots; Gallery images from your camera roll will be displayed with a white border around the outline of the image. It’s also worth mentioning that this will add a new tab called “Stories” to your Memories view, where you can view all the collected Stories you’ve created from within Memories. This makes it incredibly easy to take a photo from your phone’s camera instead of Snapchat and still send the collection to your Snapchat friends later in the day (for example, when you return to a place with full internet access after being in a dead zone). ).
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Why would we want this ability? You obviously use this a bit or you wouldn’t have made it to the end of this article, but why post the photos on snapchat? The ability to add it to your story after the event is handy, but it can be useful for advertising your fashion line, bragging about your vacation, or keeping up with your friends. Sending pictures in chat is a great way to send a photo to a group, no matter what phone they have; iPhone and Android work very well with SnapChat.
Snapchat’s biggest downfall as an app is the lack of any documentation or help to explain how to use some of its best features. While most users probably know how to send a picture in a chat with another person or group, the ability to create Stories using old memories and gallery photos is a great utility for creating content later for practicality or simple nostalgia. Being a Snapchat power user can be pretty tough as the app has so many different features and conversation modes, but fortunately, exploring the app can often lead you to discover new features you didn’t know were there. So the next time you regret not posting your vacation photos on Snapchat, you can relax; just add them all at once with a brand new Story from your Memories.
