Almost a decade after changing into a digital time capsule in your life’s moments, Snapchat is about to place a worth on its Reminiscences function. The corporate introduced final week that it’s capping free Reminiscences storage at 5GB.

In case your Reminiscences exceed the restrict, you’ll need to both export them or join one in every of Snapchat’s new Reminiscences Storage plans so as to protect them.

The corporate advised TechCrunch in an e-mail that the introductory storage plan gives as much as 100GB of storage for $1.99 monthly. Snapchat+ customers will stand up to 250GB of storage as a part of their $3.99 month-to-month subscription, whereas Snapchat Platinum customers will get 5TB as a part of their $15.99 month-to-month subscription.

When you’re over the restrict however don’t join a plan, your oldest Snaps will likely be saved, whereas the latest ones will likely be deleted to remain throughout the storage restrict.

Though the corporate has given customers 12 months of non permanent storage for Reminiscences that exceed the 5GB restrict, some customers are proactively selecting to export their Reminiscences as an alternative of paying up.

We’ll stroll you thru the 2 choices you have got for preserving your Snapchat Reminiscences.

Export your Snapchat Reminiscences to your gadget’s digital camera roll

One approach to save your Snapchat Reminiscences is by downloading them to your digital camera roll. Though this may be accomplished immediately out of your telephone, you’re restricted to batches of 100 at a time, which could be a time-consuming process when you have hundreds of saved Snaps.

Nonetheless, this could possibly be a great way of choosing the Snaps you really wish to save.

Right here’s what that you must do:

• Open the Snapchat app and choose the “Reminiscences” icon subsequent to the digital camera button.
• Faucet the “Choose” choice within the high proper nook.
• Choose as much as 100 Reminiscences that you just wish to hold.
• Faucet the “Export” button that seems on the backside proper of your display.
• Choose “Obtain” to avoid wasting them to your digital camera roll.

Repeat this course of to avoid wasting one other batch of 100 Reminiscences.

Obtain your Snapchat knowledge

When you don’t wish to spend time exporting your Reminiscences in batches of 100, you should utilize Snapchat’s “Obtain My Information” instrument to avoid wasting your Reminiscences archive and get it emailed to you in a .zip file.

Right here’s what that you must do:

• Open the Snapchat app and navigate to your Profile.
• Faucet the Settings icon within the high proper of your display.
• Scroll all the way down to the “My Information” choice.
• Choose the Reminiscences, HTML Recordsdata, and JSON Recordsdata choices. (Uncheck the choices beneath except you additionally wish to save extra data, reminiscent of your chat historical past, person knowledge, and extra. Simply consider, it is likely to be more durable to seek out your Reminiscences later within the .zip file.)
• Faucet “Subsequent.”
• Choose the “All Time” choice when prompted to decide on a date vary for the export.
• Affirm your e-mail deal with.
• Faucet “Submit.”

The time it takes to obtain your knowledge might range relying on how a lot you have got saved.