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Snapchat Your 2017 Story shows your personal highlights from the year

Company says it is 'based on a combination of signals such as the location, date or captions associated with each Snap'

Aatif Sulleyman

Thursday 28 December 2017 01:30 GMT

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Snapchat has launched Your 2017 Story to celebrate the end of the year.

The feature stitches together a selection of "Snaps" you’ve saved to your "Memories" folder inside the app throughout 2017.

You can, however, edit it if you like, and save it or share it with your friends.

“Your 2017 Story gives Snapchatters the opportunity to relive some of their favourite, and maybe forgotten moments from 2017 in a personally packaged run through of the year detailing everything from early mornings to late nights, to your travels near or far,” the company says.

“Each Snapchatter’s own 2017 Story will include Snaps that are automatically categorised and strung together to tell a fun, year-end narrative that’s personal to you.”

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You can access your own 2017 Story by tapping the Memories button below the Snapchat camera key.

Your 2017 Story will sit at the top of the "All" tab. You can watch, edit, save or share it from here too.

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12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Shoot 60-second Snaps

Android and iOS users can record up to 60 seconds of Snapchat footage with Multi-Snap (the previous limit was 10 seconds). All you need to do is tap and hold the circular Record button, and keep holding it for up to 60 seconds. Snapchat will split the footage into 10-second segments, which you can edit individually, though your recording will play continuously when you send it to your friends or add it to your Story.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Draw with emoji

You can draw with emoji rather than regular digital brushstrokes by tapping the pen icon after you’ve shot a snap and then hitting the symbol under the colour palette.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Create your own Geofilter

You can create your own Geofilters, for occasions like weddings and birthdays, or even for places that are special to you. Go to Settings, hit On-Demand Geofilters and choose when and where you’d like it to appear.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Use multiple filters

Once you’ve applied a filter to your snap, tap and hold the screen with one finger and swipe with another to layer another filter on top of it.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Save data

You can reduce the amount of data Snapchat munches through by enabling Travel Mode. Find it by swiping down from the main camera screen, going to Settings and scrolling down to Manage Preferences.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Understand emoji

From here, you can also learn what those emoji that appear next to your friends’ names mean. Change the ones you want to change by tapping on them.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Message symbols

It’s also useful to understand what Snapchat’s different-coloured arrows and squares mean, so you’ll no longer be unsure whether you can open a message in public or not.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Snapcodes

Create your own Snapcode GIF by swiping down from the main camera screen and hitting the Snapchat icon and then the camera button.

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Collect trophies

You can find out how many Snapchat trophies you’ve earned by tapping the trophy icon above your Snapcode. You can unlock more by trying out new things with the app.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Hide things you don't like

The Featured section is definitely one of the worst Snapchat features. Fortunately, you can hide stories you have no interest in seeing by tapping and holding it, then selecting Hide Story.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Snap Map

Snap Map caused a huge amount of controversy when it launched, with people afraid that the feature could expose children to danger. You can access it by pinching the camera screen, and hide yourself from fellow Snapchat users by tapping the Settings icon and enabling Ghost Mode.

12 useful Snapchat features you didn't know existed

Share music

You can Shazam a song within Snapchat by tapping and holding the camera screen. Once it identifies it, you can share the song with your friends.

“Each Snapchatter’s 2017 Story will be unique, made up of Snaps selected and curated, and based on a combination of signals such as the location, date or captions associated with each Snap to create a compelling Story, personalized for you,” says Snapchat.

2017 has been a challenging year for the company, which decided to redesign its app in November, in order to make it easier to use.

It also picked up a significant amount of criticism over the launch of Snap Map, a feature that lets you reveal your real-time location to your friends.

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