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How To Enable And Record Multiple Snaps In Snapchat

Snapchat lets you record and share videos. These videos are only 10 seconds long though so you have to keep them short. The videos can be posted to your story or you can share them with a friend, or a group on Snapchat. Ten seconds isn’t very long and Snapchat is now facing a lot of competition with everyone ripping its features off. The app is fighting back by adding new features and improving existing ones. It’s made an improvement to its video sharing feature. After the last update, you can now record multiple snaps in Snapchat. The magic number is six. You can record six videos, each ten seconds long, and post them to Snapchat. Here’s how.

Record Multiple Snaps In Snapchat

Open Snapchat and tap and hold the Capture button. Allow a full ten second video to record. When the progress dial is full, Snapchat will automatically start recording the next video. If you keep holding the capture button after the second video has been recorded, it will record a third one. This will go on until you’ve recorded 6 videos. That’s the limit. Once you reach it. Snapchat will take you to the familiar editing screen.

You can remove a clip from the six that you’ve recorded and you can edit each clip individually.

Enable Record Multiple Snaps In Snapchat

There’s one problem with the new feature. If you’ve never recorded or posted a video to Snapchat, it doesn’t seem to work. Perhaps you have recorded and posted videos to Snapchat but the feature looks at your recent activity. If there are no recent videos that you’ve posted, the feature doesn’t work for you.

To enable it, you need to record a full ten second video and post it to your story. The only thing you have to make sure you do is make it a ten second video. Anything shorter than that will not do. Once you post the video, return to the capture mode in Snapchat and record a new video. This time, when you reach the ten second mark, it will start recording a second video.

This feature is obviously one for enthusiastic Snapchat users. People who post photos once in a while e.g. to show off the new Game of Thrones snap filter in Snapchat aren’t likely to want or need this feature. That’s the only thing that can explain why it’s sort of disabled like this. Snapchat should perhaps be a little more clear with how to enable its features.

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33 Comments

  1. mine won’t work either. I tried reinstalling the app and it worked only once and then it won’t multi snap at all. is something wrong with my phone or the app or am I doing something wrong? I really wish snapchat management takes concern over this issue…

  2. I can’t post more than one snap after it records it stops, does it mean I have too many recorded or do I need to delete some, worked fine yesterday, please explain what I can do? Email is ouimetteferriscindy@gmail.com to explain, thank you

  4. anyone have any ideea why i cant record more than 10sec on samsung galaxy a5 2016?

  5. In my samsung j7 prime the snapxhat does’nt record multiple snaps . Snapchat beta is also not record . After reinstal it record multiple snaps for one time after this they do not record . Vedio recording failed please tell me give solution of this problem

  6. Hasn’t worked for me. A few weeks after the feature came out it worked for like a day but then it stopped and this didn’t help

    • Apparently us Androiders need to sign up for the Beta testing through the Google Play App and the Snapchat app page. Scroll all the way to the bottom and say “I’m in!” for beta testing.
      #downwithiphone

  7. Will Disqus team let me and all of who cmmnted before me about the multi snap video’s recording feature which had stopped all of sudden?

  8. Problem please help!I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and the new 1 minute record feature is available in Android also now but for my phone that feature doesnt work any idea why??

  9. My android recorded multi videos one day. However the next day when i tried it didnt work. I tried the 10 secs in the story and it still didnt work. Plesee helppp cause i rly wanna use this feature.

  11. Does it work for android??? I can get it to work on mine. And I have the newest update.

  12. Nice. This post was really helpful to me, because I was wonderful why I can’t add more that one snap. Thanks

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