How To Get Get Filters On Snapchat

This wikiHow teaches you to use emoji filters, lenses, and multiple filters on your snaps.

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Open your iPhone's Settings. It's an app with a gray gear, usually found on the home screen.
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Tap Snapchat . It will be grouped with your other apps.
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Tap Location . It's near the top of the page.
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Tap While Using the App. Snapchat will now have access to your location while you're using the app.

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Open Settings on your Android device. It's a gear-shaped (⚙️) app on your launch screen.
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Scroll down and tap Apps . It's in the "Device" section of the menu.
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Scroll down and tap Snapchat . The apps are listed in alphabetical order.
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Tap Permissions . It's near the top of the menu.
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Slide the button next to "Location" to the "On" position. It will turn blue-green. Now Snapchat will access your device's location to enable geo specific filters.

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Open Snapchat . It's a yellow app with a ghost outline. This will bring you to a camera view.
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Tap the ghost button. It's at the upper left-hand corner of the screen. This will take you to the user screen.
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Tap the gear. It's in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and will take you to Settings.
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Tap Manage Preferences . It's under Additional Services.
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Slide the Filters button to the "On" position. You'll now have access to all of Snapchat's available filters.

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Tap the shutter button to take a photo snap. It's the larger circle button at the bottom of the screen. The photo will be on your screen.
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Swipe right or left. This will bring you to the filter menus. Swiping right will bring up geofilters; swiping left will bring up traditional Snapchat filters.
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Tap and hold the snap. You'll be holding down the first filter so it stays on the photo.
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Slide left or right with your other finger. Continue to hold your first finger down on the snap while you choose another filter.
- You can add up to three geofilters, timestamps, temperature icons, or colored filters.

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Take a photo snap. Tapping the larger circle button at the bottom of the screen will take a photo. The photo snap will be on your screen.
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Tap the Sticker button. It's in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and looks like a piece of paper with the corner folded over.
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Tap the smiley face icon. It's at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. This will bring you to the emoji menu.
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Tap an emoji. Choose an emoji that is the color you'd like for your filter. This will put the emoji in the center of your screen.
- The emoji's outer edge will end up being the filter.
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Drag the emoji toward a corner of the screen.
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Spread two fingers apart on the emoji to increase its size.
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Drag the emoji toward the corner again. Continue to alternate enlarging and dragging the emoji to the corner of the screen until just the outer edge is enlarged over the snap, creating a color filter from the pixelated, semi-transparent edges of the image.

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Tap the rotating camera icon to switch the camera view. It's in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. You'll want to make sure your camera is facing the right way before applying a lens.
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Tap the middle of the camera screen. This will bring up the lenses menu.
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Scroll through the lenses. You'll get a preview of each lens so you can see what your snap will look like.
- Some effects will prompt you to perform an action, such as raising your eyebrows.
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Tap the shutter button while the filter is active. It's the larger circle button at the bottom of the screen. You'll take a photo using the lens.
- To take a video with the lens, tap and hold the shutter button for up to ten seconds.
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Edit the snap. Add any stickers, text, drawing, emojis, or filters.
- You can save the snap to your device by tapping Save at the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.
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Tap Send to to send your snap. It's at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.

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1. Enable Location Services for Snapchat.
2. Open Snapchat.
3. Tap your profile icon.
4. Tap the gear.
5. Tap Manage.
6. Slide "Filters" to the On position.
7. Take a snap.
8. Swipe left or right to select a filter.

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