Snapchat Adds Paperclip Feature, Backdrops, Voice Filters

If Snapchat is your favorite messaging app, then get ready for a few fun and handy new features.

Snapchat Paperclip feature

Rival social media app Instagram had no shame well-nigh copying Snapchat's all-time characteristic, and at present the inspiration is going both ways. Snapchat's latest update, released Mon, includes a new Paperclip feature that lets you add together a website to your Snap, like to what Instagram added in November.

On Snapchat, you'll merely tap the Paperclip and blazon or copy the URL y'all want to add. With that done, your friends will be able to visit the site by swiping upwards from the bottom of the screen while viewing your story.

Meanwhile, Snapchat is too rolling out some fun backdrops you lot can add to your snaps. Simply tap the new icon inside the scissors tool to try them out. At that place'south too some new voice filters, which will allow y'all sound like an alien, robot, or animal whatsoever time y'all like.

Finally, you can now create a custom Geofilter for your wedding, event, or graduation correct inside the app. This feature isn't gratuitous, however: it starts at $5.99. To try it out, head over to Settings and tap "On-Demand Geofilters."

This latest update comes after Snapchat last moth rolled out a feature that lets you lot spy on your friends locations. Snap Map, as the company is calling it, can be activated by pinching your fingers together on the camera view when y'all beginning start the app. Once in map view, y'all'll see "Actionmoji" versions of your nearby friends, which include their names and contour photos.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'due south expert on fitness and smart dwelling products. Teaching yoga for nearly x years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, center rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, force training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela also tests smart habitation devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.