New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on August 9, 2022) follows:
Snapchat was originally launched more than 10 years ago (2011) becoming one of the most popular messaging apps in countries like the United States.
Snapchat sought to distinguish itself from other similar services in two key ways: the ephemeral messenger and AR filters.
Ephemeral messaging offers a sense of privacy to users since the messages disappear once the recipient reads them. You’ll even get a notification if the other person takes a screenshot of the conversation.
On the other hand, AR filters are a set of filters that notably modify the appearance of your face, in addition to combining digital elements with the image in focus.
However, currently many Snapchat users are feeling that they are receiving a lot more notifications than normal. These notifications are not from messages, but from contacts joining and uploading stories or memories.
Snapchat users report an increase in the number of notifications
Many Snapchat users are reporting a recent increase in the number of notifications they are getting. This is being very annoying and frustrating for many.
Snapchat notifications about contacts joining
In some cases, the notifications are about new contacts joining Snapchat.
There are even users that after deleting some contacts, Snapchat sends them a notification that they are on Snapchat to add them back.
Why??? 🤣 Source
Snapchat notifications about stories or memories
The other annoying notifications Snapchat users are getting are about new stories uploaded by contacts.
In some cases the notifications are about old stories that the user has already seen before.
No official acknowledgment yet
There is still no official acknowledgment of the issue from the Snapchat team, so it is not yet known if the behavior of the notifications is a bug or a new change.
We will update this story as events unfold.
Update 1 (Dec. 22, 2022)
06:43 pm (IST): It seems that Snapchat’s continuous notifications about unwatched stories, memories, and other content are driving some users crazy (1,2,3,4,5,6).
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