
Use My Places to keep track of your favorite spots: The Places tab at the bottom center of the screen shows popular spots nearby, your favorites, and spots you've tagged in your snaps.Or, tap +Custom at the top of the Send To tab to create your own Geo Story, which you can share with people nearby. Add your snaps to Our Story: If you're snapping from a location with its own story collection, select Our Story from the Send To tab after taking a snap.Tap a popular part of the map to reveal the circular story collection, then tap the story collection to view the stories added to it.

View Stories for hot spots: Scouting out the colored portions of the map reveals story collections for popular locations and events.Tap a colored area to view the snaps shared from there. Blue means there are a few snaps, while red means a lot of activity is happening there. Use the heat map to see snaps other people have shared: Use your finger to drag the map around and look for the splashes of color on the map, which shows where people are snapping.Search for a friend's location: Wondering where in the world a friend might be? Tap Search at the top of the screen to look for a specific friend on the map.Tap a friend to start a chat with them, or tap and hold to go to their profile. See your friends' locations: Friends who've chosen to share their location with you appear on the Snap Map.Snapchat’s other location tracking features will still work and you will still be able to use geotags and all that good stuff but you won’t appear on Snap Maps. Enable Ghost Mode, set it to indefinitely and go about your business. This is how you stop appearing on the Snap Map altogether. If you don’t want to use Snap Map at all, select Ghost Mode and set it to indefinitely.



Who can see your location on the Snap Map?
