“Feels like nothing online is truly free anymore.”

Snapchat simply introduced an enormous change that’s catching longtime customers off guard. If you’ve been utilizing the app for years and have hundreds of saved Snaps in your Memories, you’re about to hit a paywall.

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In an announcement, the corporate stated that when it first launched Memories, it didn’t anticipate it to develop this huge. Now, with many customers storing years’ price of Snaps and movies, Snapchat says it wants to supply “new Memories Storage Plans” to maintain it sustainable.

Here’s the way it works: Users with lower than 5GB of Memories received’t see something change. But for these with greater than 5GB, Snapchat will start rolling out paid plans to develop storage.

These new plans embrace 100GB, 250GB (bundled with Snapchat+), or a large 5TB choice underneath Snapchat Platinum. And if you happen to don’t need to pay? Snapchat will provide you with 12 months of short-term storage to obtain your content material or determine to improve.

The firm says it hopes “the value we provide with Memories is worth the cost,” but additionally acknowledges that it’s robust going from free to paid.

How to obtain your Snapchat Memories earlier than it’s too late

If you’re not able to pay for a subscription simply to entry your previous Snaps, you’ll be able to nonetheless save all the things on to your system. Here’s how:

1. Open Snapchat and go to Settings.

Tap your profile icon, then hit the gear icon within the top-right nook.

2. Scroll right down to “My Data.”

This is the place Snapchat shops your obtain choices.

3. Choose what you need to obtain.

Select which information you need (e.g., Memories), after which set the time vary — you’ll be able to even select All Time if you’d like all the things.

4. Confirm your electronic mail.

Make positive Snapchat has your right electronic mail tackle, since that’s the place they’ll ship your zip file.

5. Submit your request.

It would possibly take a number of hours, and even days, for Snapchat to electronic mail you the obtain hyperlink. Be affected person.

Some customers are finished with Snapchat

News of the brand new paywall didn’t go over properly on-line. On Facebook, customers expressed frustration, with many saying this could be the ultimate push they wanted to go away the platform.

“So now even our Memories come with a subscription fee?” one person wrote. “Feels like nothing online is truly free anymore.”

Another stated, “Who [expletive] even uses Snapchat anymore!? I installed it years ago and just used IG instead.”

And one individual summed it up: “AAAANNNNDDDD that’s the end of Snapchat.”

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