Snapchat Helps You Celebrate Birthdays With New Lenses

Birthdays are condign a bigger deal on Snapchat.

The self-destructing messaging app on Tuesday rolled out a "birthday political party" update for iOS and Android offer "some fun surprises, like an exclusive lens on your birthday, a cake emoji next to your name, and more." Once you download the update, only head to Settings > Birthday to enable the new characteristic.

According to Engadget, the update offers ii new birthday-themed lenses — one that lets you jazz up your snaps with confetti and a colorful "Happy Birthday" doodle on your big day, and another that works on a friend'south birthday, letting yous add together a cake emoji to your greeting.

The update comes after Facebook on Monday announced information technology is launching a new feature within its iOS app dubbed birthday video cam, which lets you record and share a quick, 15-second video on a friend's wall for their special day. Now, when you visit a friend'south Facebook profile on their altogether, you'll see a imprint near the meridian giving you the selection to create a video for them. Once you lot tape a funny or heartfelt message, you tin can customize the video with different birthday-themed frames before posting it to your friend's timeline.

Meanwhile, Snapchat too this week introduced a new feature that lets yous "create and publish a geofilter for your political party, wedding, business, or any other place or effect." Snapchat's new on-demand geofilters start at $5, and pricing "depends on a few factors including, amongst others, the size of your geofence and the time catamenia you've chosen," the company said. You tin buy them for an hour up to 30 days, and fifty-fifty add your brand logos and trademarks.

[Epitome: Engadget]

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