How to Change Your Username on Snapchat – Quick Guide

Snapchat is an easy way to share your pictures with your friends and family members. It provides to-click pictures with different filters. This app grows very quickly in different countries. This app is usually used to share pictures and videos that will disappear after some time. Your username on Snapchat is your identity and we discuss it further in this article.

Snapchat was founded in September 2011. This app is created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University. This team focuses on usability and technical aspects rather than its branding efforts.

In September 2016, Snapchat Inc. changed its name to Snap Inc. (Social media company) to introduce the company’s first hardware product, spectacles with a built-in camera that can record a short video of 10 seconds at a time. In December 2019, App Annie announced Snapchat as the 5th most downloaded app of the decade. In January 2020, Snapchat started a computer vision startup to boost its video capabilities.

Features of Snapchat

Some of the features of Snapchat are as follows:

1. Primarily, use of Snapchat is to exchange pictures and videos with friends.
2. Snapchat helps users to edit the pictures and add filters to the photos.
3. We can communicate with each other by using video chat.
4. It can allow users to communicate by using text messages.
5. Snapchat provides Private messages function so only by some specific users can access it.
6. Snapchat different filters can capture the images to make them more attractive.
7. Many types of emojis are also available on Snapchat.
8. Snapchat supports login, recovery accounts.
9. Snapchat supports resetting passwords.

How to change Snapchat username?

Snapchat never allows users to change their username and transfer the data to any other account. But users can be solved by using two different methods.

1. Change your Snapchat display name.
2. By creating a new account.

Method 1: Change Your Snapchat Display Name

Firstly, changing the display name. Your username remains the same, and your display name will be different.

1. Open the Snapchat App and then click on the Profile icon.
2. Select the Settings option that will appear on the right corner.
3. Now, click on the Name options. A different page will appear on the screen.
4. Enter a Name in the Display Box.
5. Click on the Save button that appears on the screen.

Now, the display name is shown in place of the username. If users are not fully satisfied with the display name and want to change their username permanently, they can follow the next segment. Here, we will discuss the process of creating a new account. 

Method 2: Creating a new account

Creating a new user account is also a solution for changing usernames.

1. Download the Snapchat app on your Android phone.
2. Open the app and click on the Signup option to create a new Snapchat account.
3. Now, enter the First Name and Last Name for your account to be changed at any time.
4. Put the username in the Username box. The user cannot be changed again. So, you need to choose it very carefully.
5. Create a password for your account. Passwords should be Strong and Secure.
6. Now, enter your Phone Number and verify your account. If you don’t want to use your phone number, you can use the option of Signing up with email instead of your phone number.
7. Fill up your Birth Date, Month and Year.
8. Finally, click on Sign Up and Accept.

Now, you can find your friends. You also have access to the contacts you want to add as your friends. Finally, the user has an account. This account can send snaps, videos, and send messages to friends.

The username of a Snapchat account cannot be changed after the user once sets it. So, users have to choose their username wisely. But users can use these methods as a solution for this problem.

Statistics of Snapchat users

Snapchat is a very popular app nowadays. It is one of the most buzzed-about social networks. This app has grown very quickly worldwide. Statistics show its worldwide use, which is as follows: 

• Snapchat currently used by 293 million users in the whole world. It is an increase of 85.44% from 158 million users in 2016.
• In 2014, Snapchat added on an average of 32.88 million daily active users each year.
• 67.58% of the Snapchat daily users are from North America.
• On average, 5 billion snaps are clicked every day by its users.
• Now, Snapchat has 872 patents.
• Snapchat will generate a revenue of $2.5 billion in the year 2020.
• Nowadays, the market capitalization of Snap Inc. is $118.99 billion.

Conclusion

Snapchat offers different features: games, news, entertainment, quizzes, and different filters. And, we have explained different ways to change the username of Snapchat ID. Snapchat does not provide any function that helps indirectly change the username. Then, we suggest two alternate options that you can use for changing the username permanently. Also, many other additional features are provided by Snapchat that you cannot find in other applications. 

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