Social networking sites now offer their users a way to follow their acquaintances or just interesting accounts with the Subscribe feature. The Snapchat app has such a feature. However, many users do not fully understand what Snapchat subscriptions mean.
Why Snapchat Subscriptions feature is needed
In the era of social networking, they became really popular. Today there are a lot of different social networks being created for different purposes.
There are social networks for work. There are educational social networks, different social networks for entertainment or just to share videos and photos. In addition, to stay relevant, each social network is trying to offer its users various new features that its competitors do not have. This includes Snapchat.
It’s one of the most popular social networks today. It became known for its photo and video mapping feature and its various masks and effects. Also, a popular feature of Snapchat is sending Snaps.
In fact, Snap is a message that disappears over time and you can send it to anyone and be sure that it won’t stay in the history of correspondence forever. It’s pretty convenient.
However, like many other social networks, Snapchat has a function to subscribe to a particular user.
What is Subscribe and why do you need it
Basically, Subscribe works the same way as on similar services like YouTube. You can subscribe to the necessary person or brand, and you will see in your feed his new posts and content that is posted from this account. This is quite a handy feature in order to track the activity of your friends or celebrities you’re interested in, for example.
Signing up for an account is completely free. You can subscribe and unsubscribe from a certain account an infinite number of times. Also, when you subscribe to a person, he will be notified about it. In addition, the subscription gives access to closed accounts.
As you can see, this is quite a useful feature. Among its main advantages are that it’s free and allows you to create a feed of news and posts that you will really be interested in.
How to subscribe to someone on Snapchat
In fact, signing up for a user is quite simple. It’s usually done in the tab of the app called Discover. To do this you literally need a few seconds. You will need to:
- Open the Snapchat app.
- Then in the lower right corner, you will find the Discover button. You will need to click on it.
- Then you can scroll through the recommendations to find the person you want, or you can use the search bar at the top of the screen to find a specific person.
- Once you have found the account you need to sign up for, you need to click and hold on the name of the account. This will open a drop-down menu with a Subscribe button. You need to toggle the switch next to it.
- Then click on Done.
Thus you can subscribe to any account in Snapchat. These instructions will work for both Android and iPhone devices.
After you subscribe to the first person, a list of your subscriptions will be available at the top of the Discover tab.
If you need to change your list of subscriptions or remove notifications, you can use the three dots at the top of the Discover tab and select “Manage Subscriptions and Notifications.