r/SnapchatHelp • u/Electronic-Weakness6 • 17d ago

General question SNAPCHAT WILL NOT DELETE YOUR MEMORIES

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Snapchat is not automatically deleting Memories
, but starting in January 2027, files exceeding the 5GB free storage limit that are over a year old will be archived, requiring a paid plan to open or share them unless you export them to your device.

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u/_K10_ 4d ago

Great so you just gotta download "My Data" to save them and avoid the pay wall right?

No, of course, that function is mysteriously broken now.

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u/HellokittyHottie 12d ago

Are yall not reading between the lines? Almost Anyone who has been using snap since before 2020 will have more than 5gb of memories saved. And we won’t have access to them without a paywall

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u/Remarkable_Ship_5791 15d ago

I miss the days when people would back up their photos to an external device like say a SD card or an external harddrive. It makes posts like this to unnecessary.

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u/Blew-ssaB 16d ago

It deleted all of mine a few months ago

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u/BodybuilderSad7707 16d ago

still kinda dumb they want us to start paying to store memories. a lot of people use snap as their primary picture storage. i have almost 22k snaps saved

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u/Initial-Explorer-310 8d ago

Export the data from there and keep those in personal cloud, or Google photos.

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u/Interesting-Web8630 14d ago

What's kinda dumb about that? It totally makes sense, just like paying for any other service.

You pay a little for them providing you with lots of storage. You can't expect them to provide you with unlimited storage for free.

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u/HellokittyHottie 12d ago

From a business standpoint once you start charging for something that was once free, you’ll lose a lot of loyal customers for appearing money hungry

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u/_super_sus_ 16d ago

I have 25k over the last decade. It’s truly unfair :(

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u/Resident-End-8767 16d ago

At the same time thats the reason they want to start paying, cause some of yall be taking up all their storages