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Snapchat Privacy Settings
Snapchat has introduced a new feature to its app through an update. This new feature allows other users to track and locate their friends on a map. This map is highly accurate, and when you zoom in you can even pin point the street and sometimes even the building a user is in. There have been a number of posts on social media from concerned parents about this update and they are sharing how to disable this new feature in order to keep children safe. This short guide will show you how to disable this new setting and also double check your child’s privacy settings on the app. Please feel free to pass this short guide on to anyone who may require assistance in disabling this new feature.
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A personal screenshot of the new update and its high location accuracy when in my office at High Greave…
(Please ensure Snapchat is up to date before following these steps)
If you are opening Snapchat for the first time following the update it will alert you to this new feature and offer a quick walkthrough. It will also offer you the opportunity to turn off the feature there and then. If you have already installed the update and think you accepted the new feature, please follow the below steps to disable them… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Open Snapchat With the ‘selfie’ camera on, pinch two fingers on the screen to open then map In the top right there is a little cog, tap the cog to reveal settings Enable ‘Ghost Mode’ to hide your location from your friends. Once enable, press your ‘Back’ back to return to the camera. With the camera open, swipe down from near the top of the screen to reveal a profile overlay. In the top right of this overlay is another cog, tap the cog to reveal more Snapchat settings. Scroll down to ‘Who Can’ to see what your privacy settings are currently set to, and change them as necessary.
Your Snapchat is now no longer sharing your location and you will not appear on your this map to anyone.
