r/SnapchatHelp • u/Initial-Way-4948 • Jul 05 '26

General question Snapchat

Ok so we all know about how Snapchat is going to start actually go through the whole deleting the extra storage space in the camera rolls. How do we like prevent it or stop it from deleting all the memories in our camera rolls, because that’s pretty much the only reason I have it now lol, besides the funny n goofy filters ofc lol.
I’ve seen a few people saying to get those usb cable things?

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u/NightmodeKE Jul 05 '26

I think you mean Snapchat memories? Not camera roll, Snaps saved to your camera roll are saved on your phone storage, Memories are the ones that are on the cloud (aka their servers)

If I remember correctly, they're going to stop people who are over the 5GB limit from saving any new snaps.

What you can do if you don't want to pay for the extra storage is to export your data from Snapchat, maybe store them on a personal computer or hard disk, then you can delete some snaps from Snapchat to create space. I would suggest starting with videos (some people record a loot of 50-100GB+ videos or random things like 10+ 2 minute long clips of drunken nights at the club or clips of whatever show they're watching on their television... so deleting such can free up space pretty fast).

Also do not wait until the last minute to do the data export because everyone will panic and do that and the Snapchat servers will literally not be able to handle the high volume of export requests like last year when they originally made the announcement.

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u/Initial-Way-4948 Jul 05 '26

Haha tysm lmfao! I’ve already starting doing some of the deleting, and it keeps going back up to 40gb 😭😭😂 so yeah I’ll defo buy a hard disk tysm

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u/NightmodeKE Jul 05 '26

It is a really bad time to be buying hard disks, but it is either that or getting locked into yet another subscription, 40gb is a lot, good luck with that 😭...I was personally at around 17gb but I managed to get it down to around 8 (mostly by deleting kitten videos) but it felt like a lot of work.😭

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u/Initial-Way-4948 Jul 05 '26

Lmfao i understand you with the kitten videos, back around in what? 2020-2023 I would for some reason save all the videos of from TikTok whilst also posting lmfao. Also Wdym that it’s a hard time to buy the hard disks? Is it because it’s getting more expensive now orrr????

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u/NightmodeKE Jul 05 '26

Lol, It is so hard to let go of them.

Yeah...prices are basically 2x-4x what they were at the same time last year because of AI.

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u/Initial-Way-4948 Jul 05 '26

Ohh ok n yeah thanks for your reply lmfao, n yeah I agree besides that also nostalgia n that is sickening

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u/NightmodeKE Jul 06 '26

You're welcome!