Key Takeaways
- Snapchat features disappearing photos and videos, but now we’re introducing Friend Solar System with a paid subscription.
- The Friend Solar System on Snapchat is organized with you as the Sun and your friends as the planets, but Pluto is not included.
- You can’t see someone else’s Friend Solar System, but you can track your friendship status with others.
Snapchat is one of the most popular social media apps and has been around since 2011. The app allows you to send photos and videos to friends, and they may or may not save the files. That means you can send instant photos and videos, and they disappear after someone opens them. While there are other features that allow you to replay them quickly, the novelty of “see it, then it’s gone” is what drives Snapchat.
The app allows users to do Snapchat Storieswhere you post videos and photos to your profile for specific people to see, giving you an up-to-date view of what you’re doing, where you are, and who you’re with. Like most social media apps, you can tag friends, customize your photos with filters or emojis, and more. Snapchat launched video callgroup messaging, custom mapping, and other features since it came out, and one of the latest features is the Friend Solar System.
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Friends Solar System allows you to order your friends based on how close you are to them and how much you communicate with them. It’s an easy way to arrange your closest friends at the top of your list when you’re getting ready to send a photo. Here’s more on the Friend Solar System and how to access it.
Snapchat
Snapchat is a social messaging app that allows users to share photos and videos. With features like video calling and Snap Map, it allows users to stay in touch easily.
What is Snapchat Friend Solar System?
Keep your best friends organized together
Snapchat Friend Solar System is a paid feature only available with a Snapchat+ subscription. If you’re signed up, you’ll see Friend Solar System as an option with your eight “best” friends, meaning they’re the eight people you send the most snaps and chats to. Because this is a paid feature, you can also see where you stand in their Friend Solar System, giving you information about who they photograph and chat with the most, a throwback to the original “Best Friends” list from the early days of Snapchat.
The order of your Snapchat Friend Solar System is the same as our solar system, as you are the Sun in this case.
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To change the Friend Solar System setting, you need to sign up for Snapchat+.
- Sign up Snapchat+.
- Once you have done that, click on your Bitmoji at the top of the home page.
- Click on Settings menu top right.
- Scroll down to Snapchat+, and click on it.
- This brings you to the Snapchat+ feature management page. Click on Friend Solar System to open it.
Snapchat+ costs $2 per month for the first two months and $4 per month after that.
How to understand the Friend Solar System
Some knowledge of our solar system is needed to fully understand it
If you have the Friend Solar System turned on (it’s not turned on automatically when you get Snapchat+), go to the profile of someone you’re close friends with. If someone is one of your best friends on Snapchat, an icon will appear on their profile that says “Best friend” surrounded by a golden ring. That means it’s in your Friend Solar System.
The order of your Snapchat Friend Solar System is the same as our solar system, as you are the Sun in this case. Your friends are assigned the planet they are associated with according to how close they are to the Sun. For example, your best friend is Mercury. Your next best friend is Venus. Your third closest friend is Earth, and so on and so on the path to Neptune.
Pluto is not known as a planet in the Snapchat Friend Solar System, so there are only eight planets available.
The Snapchat Friend Solar System is designed to revolve around your Bitmoji being the Sun and your friend’s Bitmoji over their planet respectively. The colors and feel of the planet correspond to how the planet actually looks. Your friends are not permanently linked to their world, as you can capture or chat with someone to change their location.
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How to see other people’s Solar Systems
You can’t see the other person fully, but there is a warning
There is no way for you to see someone else’s Snapchat Friend Solar System. But you can see your friendship with someone and see if you are listed in the Solar System at all. It helps to keep track — maybe you want to keep people in the Solar System where their Solar System is.
When you click on a friend’s profile, you can tap the best friends badge or friends badge. Having a Best Friends badge on someone’s profile means you’re in their Solar System, too they are yours too. A common badge of friends means that you are in their Solar System, but none of yours. Clicking on any of these badges shows you your location in their Solar System.
