How Do You Know If a Snap Was Sent only To You?

Snapchat has gained much popularity in the past few years. People are shifting from other social media apps like Facebook to Snapchat at a very high rate, especially teens. People now prefer Snapchat for chatting and status updating over any other app. And why is that? The answer is very much simple. Because it provides privacy. Yes, PRIVACY. That is almost rare for the users of Facebook and Instagram. But thanks to Snapchat for being a life savior here.

I have read many comments about this question on Reddit here: How do I know when a Snapchat is sent just to me? so we thought why not present a good solution to find the answer to this problem.

Pictures and texts that can be viewed for limited times. Instant notification if someone plays your snap for a second time. You would know if someone saved your text. This privacy is what we crave. Snapchat provides us means of sharing our lives with others but within much-needed limits. Snapchat is a way of saying: Yes, you can poke into my life, but only for once” ( or maybe twice if you replay the snap).

But, being the most curious creature in this universe, we tend to bring complexities in our not so-easy lives. Snapchat allows us to send one-time viewable snaps. But we tend to entangle our minds in thoughts like: “Is this snap visible only to me? Does the person want me to reply to this? How do I know if this specific snap addresses only me?”

This article is in the best interest of removing all these confusions to the extent of making you use Snapchat with a calm mind.

Looking into the Snap score of the person you want to spy on:

The first thing you should look into is the Snap score. Snap score may be considered as a doorway to unleashing your detective powers. Yes, it’s that simple. Just a snap score is the answer to your question. You would be thinking where have you been this whole time when the snap score was right there in front of your eyes.

Snap score refers to the score or number of snaps a person has sent in total to everyone in his/her friends’ list. If you didn’t already know what a snap score is, or how to find it, Just click on the friend’s Bitmoji whose score you want to see. It would be right there with a blue ghost icon in your friend’s profile. Now the question is, how to link this score to solving your problem. It is also very simple.

1. Step 1: keep a notice on your friend’s snap score. It would be more helpful if you keep a regular check on the score before he/she sends you a snap.
2. Step 2: count the score after viewing the snap. Now count the score after you have viewed the snap of that friend. Or more simply, note the difference in the snap score before and after viewing the snap.
3. Step 3: Simple calculation. If the snap score increases by just one unit (or two or 3) that means the snap has been sent only to you or maybe a few more people. If there is an abrupt increase of, say a hundred units, that means it’s not only you receiving that snap. Problem solved. But one thing to remember, it's just a crude method. There is no perfection to this rule. However, this could be the simplest solution to the problem and also the most reliable one.

If you want to do know if a person sent a Snapchat story to a single person, his/her score will increase by 1, if the Snapchat score increase by 60, this means the Snapchat story you received also send to over 60 other people.

Listen to your gut feelings:

Never take your gut feelings for granted. I mean it!

Sometimes, you feel like a person is trying to communicate to you through codes. That feeling, that knowledge of the unknown, is, most of the time, true. Gut feeling is a special power bestowed upon us for moments like these. If I talk from a personal point of view, my gut feelings have always told me the truth, and frankly it has worked for me quite many times.

Imagine: there’s a person, who sends you snaps that contain stuff, say captions or quotes, that relate to your current state. For example, you are depressed. And that person keeps sending you motivational quotes. That probably would mean that you are the only person getting the snap. So I would say, make use of your natural powers here. Never ignore what you feel.

If the content in the snap is a secret between you two:

A person is sending you snaps of some stuff that is somehow a secret between you two or only you knew about it. Like, a person sends you a snap of a boyfriend/girlfriend and only you knew about their relationship.

So that makes sense to think that you are the only person getting the snap. For example, My friend sends me a snap about our cat saying “Oreo is feeling much better”. I knew that our cat was sick so I would assume that the snap was sent only to me.

Knowing if the snap is sent only to me or not can also be directed towards depending upon the conversation. If the conversation is something that can happen between two parties based on their previous trust and understanding, it’s most likely that snap is only sent to you.

Double-checking the story:

Snapchat’s story of a person can also be an important indicator. If the person is sending you a streak of something and posting a story of another thing, another event, or another person, you are allowed to believe that you are selected for some secret stuff the person only wants YOU to see and not the others. However, if the story and the streak contain the same stuff, the suspense dies and everyone sees what you see. Sometimes, the story and the streak may be the same but, if you notice, there would be a privacy sign on the story. So that points to the fact that the content is shared only among a few.

Whether the streak shows a red ‘New snap’ sign or a blue ‘new chat’ sign:

Also, an important point in knowing if the snap was sent only to you is to notice whether it is sent as a chat or as a snap. The snap, showing a red sign at your screen is, most of the time, sent to a number of people, through a shortcut. However, the blue new chart notification would indicate that maybe the person has sent it only to you because the Chat is mostly sent after opening the chat section and selecting the picture from the gallery.

PS: How do you know if a Snap story was only sent to you?

Snapchat is designed in a way to keeps it as private as possible. But we, being humans, always find ways to remain one step ahead of technology. So, in order to find out whether the snap is visible only to you, we can make use of the above-mentioned hacks. These measures can solve your problem or curiosity by almost 60-70 percent. But there is no way to be certain.

The desire to crack these kinds of puzzles and find ways to understand the technology is an ongoing process. This article aims at providing most of the knowledge in regards to Snapchat streaks and the most frequently asked question related to it. The contents of this article would help you a lot in finding out whether the snap was sent only to you or a lot of people.

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