how to delete snap story

Snapchat has My Story and Our Story. Both are different. By default, My Story remains for 24 hours and is visible to your friends. Our Story may stay viewable all over Snapchat for a day, two days, or even much longer. After the mentioned time durations, the stories expire and are automatically deleted. But if you change your mind before, here is how to delete Snapchat story from your iPhone or Android device.

How to Save Snapchat Stories Before Deleting It
How to Delete a Snap from My Story on iPhone or Android
How to Delete a Snap from Our Story on iPhone or Android

How to Save Snapchat Stories Before Deleting It

Before you see the steps to remove, here is how to save Snapchat Stories, in case they are useful to you.

Save an Entire Story to Memories
Save Single Snap from a Story to Memories
Save Snaps from Memories to Photos App

Save an Entire Story to Memories

Open Snapchat on iPhone or Android
Tap on your Profile icon from the top left
Tap on the Save icon next to My Story or Our Story
Tap Yes.

Save Single Snap from a Story to Memories

Open Snapchat
Tap on your Profile icon from the top left corner
Tap on My Story or Our Story to expand it
Tap on a Snap to view it in full screen.
Tap on the Save icon from the bottom-right. Or, long-press. Or, tap on the three dots icon.
Tap on the Save icon.

Save Snaps from Memories to Photos App

Now, let us see how to save Snaps to Camera Roll.

Open Snapchat
Swipe up from the center of the screen
All your saved Snaps and Stories are here. Tap on one. Or, long press to select multiple snaps.
If you tapped on one Snap: It opens in full screen. Press on it or, tap on three dots icon. Tap Export Snap. Finally, tap on Save Video (or Save Image).
If you selected multiple Snaps: Tap on Export. Tap on Save as Video (to combine all Snaps into one video and save) or Save number Videos/Save number Images (to save them as individual media files).

Now that we are done with saving Snaps let us see how to delete them before they expire automatically.

How to Delete a Snap from My Story on iPhone or Android

Open Snapchat on your smartphone
Tap on your Story icon from the top-left corner
Tap on My Story icon. Tap anywhere else on My Story to expand it. Then tap on a snap icon.
Long-press on it. Or, tap on the three dots icon.
Then tap the delete icon, and confirm.

Alternatively, if you tap on a single snap, you will see a delete icon. Tap on it. If you tap on My Story icon, swipe up from the bottom of the screen, and tap the delete icon.

Repeat the process if you want to delete multiple snaps from My Story.

How to Delete a Snap from Our Story on iPhone or Android

You can delete Snaps from Our Story following the above methods. There is also an additional way. Let us see that now.

Open Snapchat on your phone
Tap on your profile icon from the upper-left
Tap on the Settings icon from the upper-right
Scroll down and tap on Our Story Snaps.
Tap the Delete icon.
Tap on Delete to confirm.

Our Story by you will also be deleted from Search, Context Cards, and Snap Map.

That's all!

These are the effortless ways to remove Snapchat stories before they expire. I hope you found what you were looking for.

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