This is how the new Snapchat widget works to chat with friends quickly

Snapchat makes it easier to start an individual conversation with your friends. With the new Snapchat widget you can open a chat at the touch of a button. This is how you set this up.

How to set up a Snapchat widget

The cartoonish Bitmoji characters have long been closely associated with Snapchat, but are also becoming a lot more practical from today. These characteristic heads of your friends play an important role in the new Snapchat widget. In this widget, the app lists the Bitmoji of your best friends. From now on, you only have to swipe from right to left over your home screen to immediately start a chat conversation in Snapchat.

This is how the new Snapchat widget works to chat with friends quickly

Before you go through the steps below, it is important to check whether Snapchat is running on version 10.4 or higher. After that it is very easy to install the Snapchat widget.

  1. Unlock your iPhone and swipe from right to left on the screen to open the widget screen;
  2. Scroll all the way down and tap ‘Edit’;
  3. Find the Snapchat widget and select the green plus sign.

In this overview you can also arrange the position of the widget. In order for your friends to actually appear in it, you must have designated your contacts as Best Friends in Snapchat. Snapchat has recently been increasingly focusing on the chat function of the service. Not surprising, now that apps like Facebook Messenger and Instagram are doing everything they can to persuade Snapchat users to switch.

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