How can you put pictures from your gallery on Snapchat?

In June 2016, the Snapchat app got a significant update, adding the Memories feature to the social network. Before the update, you were able to upload photos to Snapchat, along with videos. Those images and clips then disappeared pretty quickly, with no way to check them out after they left, unlike other services like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.

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How to open Memories
How to upload photos to Snapchat Memories, and videos too

The Memories feature allows users to save any of their smartphone videos or pictures to a particular section of the Snapchat app, along with any of their previous Snaps made with the app. They can use that content to help create new Snapchat Stories. Users can also send anything saved in Memories to their friends, or they can reserve anything they don’t want to be seen by anyone else to a My Eyes Only section.

Read more: Is Snapchat not working for you? Here’s how to fix it

You may be wondering just how you can upload photos to Snapchat Memories, along with videos. This article will tell you exactly how to do just that.

Editor’s note: We used a Pixel 4a with 5G running Android 13 and Snapchat version 12.03.0.22 to come up with these instructions. Some steps may be different depending on the device and software you’re running.

How to open Memories

If you are unfamiliar with the Snapchat app, here’s how to get started saving those photos or videos by opening up the Memories feature.

Launch the app. You should be directed to the main camera page.
Tap on the small icon located to the left of the shutter button. It looks like an icon with two photos.

How to upload photos to Snapchat Memories, and videos too

It’s pretty easy to save any images or videos stored on your smartphone to Memories. Just follow these steps.

Launch the Snapchat app.
Tap on the small icon located to the left of the shutter button. It looks like an icon with two photos.
Go into the Camera Roll tab
Pick one of your photos or videos that can be saved to Snapchat Stories or sent to a friend.
You can edit your Snap by clicking on the pencil icon.
Tap the Send To button. (You can also export it by tapping on the three-dot menu button and selecting Export Snap.)
Select who you want to send the Snap to.

FAQs

Some believe Snapchat only works with images and videos you shoot through the app. This is not the case. You can use the Memories section to upload your own photos and videos to Snapchat.

Snapchat photos need to be 5MB or less. It also needs to be in JPG or PNG format.

Snapchat videos need to be 1GB or smaller. Supported formats include Mp4, Mov, and H.264.

If you pass someone on the street and they’re making weird faces at their phone, they’re most likely using Snapchat, which is a great way to send photos to friends and family. You can post photos or videos that you take in the Snapchat app to your Story — aka, a collection of snaps you can broadcast for 24 hours — but what if you want to post a photo you didn’t take with the Snapchat app? After all, not everyone knows how to upload photos to Snapchat Story using other apps.

In the past, the company shamed photos you took with a different app by putting a white border around the photo, alerting everyone to the fact that it is an old photo. Then Snapchat created the apt-titled Memories feature, allowing you to save photos you take with the Snapchat app. There’s no shameful white border if you use these photos in your Story, but what if you have a photo you took in a different app and you want to put it in your Snapchat Story without the white border?

Do not fret! There is a trick to get a photo from Google Photos or Apple’s Photos app into Snapchat, one that allows you to post the photo without the white border of doom.

The first step is to have the photo in an app that allows for several different folders and lets you move photos between them. The video above covers how to do this with Google Photos in Android, or using Apple’s Photos app, if you’re an iOS user.

If using Google Photos, find the photo you want to upload to Snapchat. Next, select the photo and move it to the designated Snapchat folder. In iOS, find the photo you want to use and then move it into the Snapchat folder housed within the app. The Snapchat folder should already be set up within both Google Photos and the Photos app.

After you’ve moved the photo you want into the Snapchat folder, launch Snapchat. Next, navigate to Settings, select Memories, and tap the Import Snaps from Camera Roll option. Select the photo you want to import and tap Import Snap. Then, return to the main screen in Snapchat and your photo will be in Memories. From here, you can use the photo as you would any other photo you’ve saved within the Snapchat app.

Be careful when importing horizontal photos, however. Snapchat does not like horizontal photos, so you will need to edit a horizontal photo to make it vertical when you first import it. This video shows you how to edit your horizontal photos using the recently-updated Snapseed.

Need more help with the burgeoning social platform? We’ve put together a guide on how to use Snapchat, along with a collection of the best Snapchat tips and tricks.

David Cogen, a regular contributor here at DigitalTrends, runs a popular tech blog TheUnlockr.com that focuses on tech news, tips and tricks, and the latest tech. You can also find him over at Twitter discussing the latest tech trends.