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How to Unblock Someone on Snapchat

Posted on the 26 April 2023 by Jitendra Vaswani @JitendraBlogger

Have you ever been annoyed by the spammy or inappropriate snaps? So, in order to get rid of this, you just blocked someone on Snapchat. Now, you might want to give a second chance to the person whom you blocked.

If you wish to do so and don’t know how to unblock someone on Snapchat, then you are certainly in the right place. In this article, we will tell you how to unblock someone on Snapchat?

So, let’s get started:

How to Unblock Someone on Snapchat

You might want to know what happens when you block someone on Snapchat. So, for this, first of all, you will have to make one thing very clear from the beginning that blocking someone is not equivalent to deleting someone from your Snapchat account.

It simply means that the person whom you have chosen to block will not be able to receive or send snaps.

What is Snapchat?

How to Unblock Someone on Snapchat

Snapchat is a social media platform which has its prime focus on video messaging. Although, with this amazing yet beautiful platform you can also take photos, record videos, texts, arts and can send it to your peers.

You can connect to your peers by adding them to your snapchat account.

Superficially, as the name suggests, the things which you send to your snapchat friends are called “snaps” and are bounded by a time limit and can be viewed by the receivers for a set amount of time. The owner or the creator holds the privilege of setting the time span.

According to the Snapchat, the set amount of time period, the snaps are deleted from the Snapchat server.

Snapchat is quite a popular application among teenagers and seems to be the next big thing in the sphere of social media platforms.

The developers of Snapchat are Booby Murphy and Evan Spiegel. It was first released in September 2011. Bobby and Evan developed Snapchat during their college days at Stanford University.

In order to add much awesomeness to this fantastic blend of creativity named as “Snapchat”, the developers of the same also facilitates the user by filters and effects which add more flavor to the platform.

Some fast facts about Snapchat are as follows:

1: 46 per cent of the user base of Snapchat uses this platform daily. And you will be glad to know that 70 per cent of the total end users are women. Quite an astonishing fact it is. Isn’t it?

2: The original name of Snapchat was “Picaboo”. With the release of the application at the Google play store, Picaboo was renamed as Snapchat. You will be surprised to know that initially, Picaboo was published for the Apple app store only.

Also, the logo which looks very similar to a ghost-like structure has a name. Do you know what it is called?
It is called “Ghostface Chillah”.

3: You can easily estimate the amount of traffic received by the Snapchat server by going through the fact that recently in 2016 itself; Snapchat crossed the milestone of seven billion daily video views. Quite a big number to play with.

4: Facebook also showed its keen interest in acquiring Snapchat but the owners turned down the offer. Facebook made its first attempt with a whopping amount of one billion dollars and later the second attempt came up with three billion dollars.

But the owners were in no mood to let this big thing go.

5: 2013 was the year when Snapchat for kids was launched. It was launched by the name of “Snapchat Kidz”. It serves as an interface where the kids can draw, capture and send them to their peers. It was specially designed for children who are below the age of 13.

How to unblock someone on Snapchat?

Step #1: As the first step you require to open your Snapchat application first.
After this, you need to tap on the Snapchat icon which looks very similar to a ghost-like structure. It is usually positioned at the top middle of your snapchat screen.

Step #2: After the successful completion of step #1, you are now required to locate for the gear button. It is usually located at the upper right corner of your Snapchat screen.

Once you have found the gear icon, all you require to do is to tap on it.

Step #3: Tapping on the gear icon will result in a new screen filled with many options. In this screen, you have to navigate to the “Blocked” option. You may have to scroll down a bit. It is usually found under the “Account Actions” section.

Once you have located it, you just have to tap on it in order to proceed further.

Step #4: In this “Blocked” section you will see those names which you have blocked. Navigate for the name which you want to unblock. Once found then click on the “X” button which is positioned next to the name.

This will unblock the person from your Snapchat account, and the person will be able to receive your snaps again. 

[Additional Information]How to block someone on Snapchat?

Step #1: In order to block someone on Snapchat, all you require is to open up the Snapchat application on your phone and then swipe down by the camera section and from the screen, select “My Friends”.

Step #2: In the subsequent screen which appeared on your screen due to your efforts from the previous step, all you have to do is to locate the name which you want to block.

Once you have located for the same, you now to tap on the gear like icon which will be next to the name which you have selected.

Step #3: Now, tapping on the gear as an icon will result in a contextual menu from which you have to select “Block” option in order to block the person from your Snapchat account.

This way you can block someone from your Snapchat account.

Let’s wrap it up.

This marks the end of this article on “How to unblock someone on Snapchat?

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