How to Tell if Someone Saved Your Messages on Snapchat

Written by Jack Lloyd

Last Updated: October 25, 2022

This wikiHow teaches you how to recognize when somebody saves a message you've sent them in a Snapchat conversation. Saving a message is different than when someone screenshots your snap .

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Someone saving your message is different than someone screenshotting your message.
Open the conversation in Snapchat and look for a message with a grey background.
Grey backgrounds indicate that someone has saved your message.

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Open the Snapchat app. It's the white ghost outline on a yellow background.
- If you aren't already logged in, tap Log In and enter your username (or email address) and password.
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This action takes you to the Chats page.

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Tap a contact's name. Doing so opens a chat window with that contact.
- This should be a contact from whom you have no unread messages.
- You can search for a specific contact by typing their name into the Search bar at the top of this screen.
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Swipe down on the chat window. Doing this will scroll up through your chat history with your selected contact.
- If neither you nor your contact have saved any chat messages, you won't be able to scroll up.
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Look for messages with grey backgrounds. If you see a message with a grey background, it has been saved by either you or your contact. Messages you save will have a vertical red bar to the left of them, while messages saved by friends have a blue bar next to them.
- You can save a chat message by tapping and holding it.

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I want to see a message that someone sent me but I opened it by accident. Can you tell me how I could see it again?

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Can I unsave a Snapchat someone else saved?

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Unless you have access to their Snapchat account, no, you cannot.

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If I saved messages, will the same ones appear as saved on my Snapchat for the other person?

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Yes, if you save it, the other person will see it as saved too - and vice versa. There really isn't a way to avoid this.

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