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Snapchat recently updated its iOS and Android apps with some fun new features, but you'd likely never know unless you dug down deep within the app's Settings menu — which would, of course, mean that you have to take a break from exchanging all kinds of saucy holiday images with your friends.
If you're a Snapchat aficionado, it's worth your while to check out some of the app's enhancements, for they include a brand-new "Replay" feature that now allows you to re-view one of your previously viewed Snapchats a second time. Perhaps you didn't have your Snapchat screenshotting app ready to go the first time (or, worse, your physical camera).
Snapchat does build in a few caveats with the Replay feature. For starters, it doesn't appear as if you can close the app down and reopen it to view a previously viewed Snapchat. Any replay action you do has to be in one, singular instance — which eliminates our "load your screenshot app up" example from above. Additionally, you only get one Replay each day. Make it good.
Interestingly enough, Snapchat doesn't notify the party that sent you the original Snapchat that you've elected to view it a second time. That might be useful information for a sender to know, for no particular reason whatsoever (wink).
Other features that have arrived as part of Snapchat's update include new visual filters that allow users to slap a giant block of predesigned text over the images they're about to send. Snappers get a choice of either the current time, the current temperate or – this one's a bit of a head-scratcher – the speed at which the user was going when the Snapchat itself was taken. We can only imagine how long it'll be until someone posts an image of them Snapchatting at 100+ MPH speeds (we're definitely going to try it the next time we're on a roller coaster).
Snapchat has also built a paltry number of photo filters into the app. Instagram, they aren't, but they're at least a head-nod toward a future possible direction the app might want to take. Additionally, tapping on a new "T" box for text allows you to change the size of the text overlay from normal (plus gradient bar), to bigger (sans bar), to really big (also sans bar). Finally, a front-facing "flash" option fills your screen with white right before you take a "Snap selfie," presumably to give you as much of a "flash" as possible when you shoot up-close.
If these features sound neat, then you're going to need to do a bit of digging to enable them. Hit up Snapchat's Settings menu and, from there, select "Manage" under "Additional Services." Thanks for burying the lede, Snapchat.
via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFYbG1q7dg5cXL89T45HiPRGnn-Xw&url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2428653,00.asp
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