Nearly a decade after becoming a digital time capsule for your life’s moments, Snapchat is set to put a price on its Memories feature. The company announced last week that it’s capping free Memories storage at 5GB.
If your Memories exceed the limit, you will need to either export them or sign up for one of Snapchat’s new Memories Storage plans in order to preserve them.
The company told TechCrunch in an email that the introductory storage plan offers up to 100GB of storage for $1.99 per month. Snapchat+ users will get up to 250GB of storage as part of their $3.99 monthly subscription, while Snapchat Platinum users will get 5TB as part of their $15.99 monthly subscription.
If you’re over the limit but don’t sign up for a plan, your oldest Snaps will be saved, while the most recent ones will be deleted to stay within the storage limit.
Although the company has given users 12 months of temporary storage for Memories that exceed the 5GB limit, some users are proactively choosing to export their Memories instead of paying up.
We’ll walk you through the two options you have for preserving your Snapchat Memories.
Export your Snapchat Memories to your device’s camera roll
One way to save your Snapchat Memories is by downloading them to your camera roll. Although this can be done directly from your phone, you’re limited to batches of 100 at a time, which can be a time-consuming task if you have thousands of saved Snaps.
However, this could be a good way of selecting the Snaps you actually want to save.
Here’s what you need to do:
Repeat this process to save another batch of 100 Memories.
Download your Snapchat data
If you don’t want to spend time exporting your Memories in batches of 100, you can use Snapchat’s “Download My Data” tool to save your Memories archive and get it emailed to you in a .zip file.
Here’s what you need to do:
The time it takes to receive your data may vary depending on how much you have stored.
