Snapchat is introducing three new features for its paid subscription service, Snapchat+, which prices $3.99 per 30 days. With the replace, subscribers can now personalize the feel and appear of the app by customizing the digicam seize button, app icons and extra. Customers may now change the digicam seize button to a selected coloration or form, resembling a coronary heart or a soccer ball. And so they can customise their chat backgrounds.
Chat Wallpapers have been arguably first made standard by Meta’s WhatsApp, which has had the characteristic for fairly a while now. Snapchat+ subscribers can now change their chat wallpapers to straightforward backgrounds accessible within the app or to a picture from their digicam roll by the brand new “Chat Wallpapers” characteristic.
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Final, subscribers can now ship a Snapchat+ subscription to a good friend for the vacations with a brand new “Gifting” characteristic. The launch of this characteristic isn’t a shock, provided that Snapchat stated back in October that this characteristic could be rolling out this month. With Gifting, you may ship a 12-month Snapchat+ subscription to a good friend for $39.99.
The social community’s earlier Snapchat+ feature drop in October gave customers the power to have their Snapchat Tales expire at completely different intervals as an alternative of 24 hours. With the replace, Snapchat+ subscribers gained the power to set Snaps on their Story to run out after both one hour, six hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, two days, three days or one week. It additionally gave subscribers the choice to make use of completely different customized notification sounds for when a good friend Snaps them.
Snapchat launched its paid subscription back in June with unique, experimental and pre-release options. Snapchat+ unlocks the power to see who has rewatched your story, together with a particular badge and the power to pin a good friend as your No. 1 good friend. Amongst different issues, the subscription additionally consists of the power to see “the final route of journey for the place buddies have moved not too long ago.”
Within the first month since its launch, Snapchat+ had helped the app rake in over $5 million in revenue, in response to estimates.
