Snapchat rolling out new Footsteps feature for iPhone, Android support coming soon

When you usage Footsteps for the archetypal time, your steps volition beryllium based connected the Snaps stored successful your Memories, meaning each your past trips volition beryllium counted arsenic well. However, Snapchat won’t beryllium utilizing your memories aft that but alternatively edifice to your determination data.

Snapchat’s Footsteps diagnostic volition not lone amusement the countries you person travelled to but besides log however overmuch of an country you person travelled. The institution says these percentages are based connected wherever you took Snaps, which means they volition lone beryllium close if you usage the app extensively.

Footsteps records each your determination connected Snap Map. (Image Source: Techcrunch/Snapchat)

The institution says that your Footsteps are lone disposable to you and that the diagnostic tin beryllium turned disconnected by turning disconnected the “Save caller Footsteps arsenic my determination updates connected the map” toggle nether “Map” tab nether “Account Actions” successful the app settings. Users tin besides wide their determination past utilizing the “Clear Footsteps History” option.

Apart from tracking your location, utilizing Footsteps volition besides fto you stock a customized sticker with your friends. Another happening to enactment present is that Footsteps won’t enactment if you person turned connected Ghost Mode, an in-app mounting that prevents the app from sharing your determination with your friends.

While Snapchat did not specify immoderate timeline, the institution did accidental that the diagnostic volition beryllium disposable for Android users successful the adjacent future.

Earlier this month, Snapchat announced a clump of caller features astatine it’s 2024 Partner Summit which includes the quality to power betwixt nationalist and backstage profiles, an AI powered lens diagnostic that lets users spot the aboriginal mentation of themselves and more.