Snapchat adds layers to Snap Map, starting with Memories

(Pocket-lint) - Keeping its committedness to adhd much functionality - successful the signifier of "layers" - to the Snap Map diagnostic wrong the Snapchat app, Snap has announced the archetypal 2 layers rolling retired now: Memories and Explore. 

Snap Map shows Snapchat users wherever their friends are presently located - if they opt-in to determination sharing. Snap Map besides shows absorbing places to sojourn and which areas are astir fashionable among Snapchatters. As for Memories, it's different diagnostic wrong Snapchat. It's similar a backstage locker for your snaps, 1 wherever Snapchat besides serves up highlights from past years truthful you tin revisit and retrieve aged moments. Now, Snap Maps is getting Memories.

Basically, Snap Map volition amusement you aged snaps you sent from peculiar places. So, if you browse your representation and zoom successful connected Orlando, you mightiness find a representation you took of yourself astatine Disney World a fewer years ago. Memories successful Snap Map are backstage and lone disposable to you, truthful you can’t spot friends’ memories.

The Explore furniture successful Snap Maps is similar a caller mentation of the vigor map, which shows Snapchat enactment by measurement successful a peculiar area. You tin pat connected highlighted regions to spot nationalist photos and videos from Snapchat users astir the globe. To entree Explore and different layers, go to the Snap Map successful Snapchat and pat the fastener for the Layers paper successful the top-right country of the map. Then, you tin toggle betwixt antithetic layers to entree them. 

Snap Map's caller layers are disposable present for Snapchat users connected iOS and Android.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 18 November 2021.