What Happens to Your Memories When You Delete Snapchat?

Snapchat introduced Memories years ago as a way to make it easy to save precious snaps that you can view later. Now, what happens to those Snapchat Memories when you delete the app from your phone? Or maybe you are considering deleting or deactivating your Snapchat account completely and are worried about Memories.

With this guide, we will answer all your burning questions. We will also teach you how to restore and permanently delete your Snapchat Memories.

What are Snapchat Memories?

Introduced in 2016, Snapchat Memories lets you save any Snap you take on the platform. You can revisit, reshare, and even download old Snaps whenever you want. Before Snapchat Memories, the only way to save Snaps was to save them directly to your phone.

What Happens to Memories When You Delete Snapchat

According to Snapchat, your Memories won’t be lost if you delete or uninstall the app. To access your memories, simply reinstall Snapchat and log back into your account. This is because Snapchat Memories are saved in the cloud, not locally on your phone.

But things get complicated when you delete your Snapchat account. Once the account deletion begins, Snapchat will keep your Memories on its servers for 30 days. If you can reactivate your account before that, you can recover your Memories without any problem. But after 30 days all your Snapchat Memories and data are gone forever.

How to Save a Photo or Video from Your Snapchat Memories

If you want to delete your Snapchat account but keep your Memories, you can save them before proceeding with the account deletion.

1. From the main screen of the Snapchat app, swipe up to go to Memories.
2. Search for the photo or video you want to save. Long press to select multiple files.
3. Tap send button at the bottom right of the screen
   
4. Scroll through settings and tap . download.
   
   

You can save the files in your memories as many times as you want. If you want to download all your Memories at once, go to each month of your Memories and highlight all the options.

How to Delete Your Snapchat Memories

Don’t worry, you don’t have to put up with those embarrassing Snaps from the past. If you want to delete some Snapchat Memories, the platform lets you do that easily. Here’s how.

1. From Snapchat’s camera screen, swipe up to go to Memories.
2. Search for the photo or video you want to delete, then tap and hold the file.
3. Faucet To delete and confirm.
   

If you want to delete all your Memories in Snap, go to Memories and long tap on a file. From there, tap Select all, Later To delete.

Keep Your Snapchat Memories Around You

Deleting your Snapchat account is easy, but the memories you’ve accumulated over the years should stay with you. By keeping a copy of your memories, you shouldn’t regret when you finally delete your account. If you want to clear your account instead of deleting it, here’s how to delete your saved Snapchat messages. You should also consider checking out Snapchat’s new Anime AI lens.