The update to the popular photo sharing app allows people to video chat and send disappearing text messages. By Natalie Jarvey Snapchat Media Kit Still - H 2014 Snapchat has unveiled a major overhaul ...

Snap is waking up to the “Time Well Spent” movement Facebook is already addressing. Snapchat is offering a way to mute specific people without formally blocking them. Meanwhile, the sweeping redesign ...

On Monday the messaging app Snapchat, which lets you send images and text that disappear soon after the recipient has viewed the message, announced that it would let its users send something more ...

Snapchat’s Stories format, as well as several other features like augmented reality masks, have been widely imitated. But this time Snapchat could be the one doing the imitating. Snapchat recently ...

Snapchat wants to be more than just an app for sending silly, drunken, and yes, sometimes obscene, photos to people. On Thursday, the company announced in a blog post that it was adding text messaging ...

Snapchat launched new features on Thursday that will allow users to send text messages and video chat live with friends. “Until today, we felt that Snapchat was missing an important part of ...

Instagram is finally preparing to copy Snapchat’s most popular feature, and one of the few it hasn’t already cloned. Instagram has prototyped an unreleased ephemeral text messaging feature that clears ...

Snapchat's Chat feature lets you send text messages to friends within the app. Since Snapchat messages automatically delete after you read them, I used to avoid using the app for sending messages I'd ...

“The goal has always been to move beyond messaging… We’re trying to take the traditional text conversation and make it better.” Snapchat is known for doing two things very, very well: Taking photos or ...

There's nothing more anoying than having to write "Getting ready for my best friend's beach wedding tomorrow!" as "gettin ready 4 my BFF's [wave emoji] wedding 2moro." But because of Snapchat's ...

Sending and viewing snaps isn't just for Snapchat anymore. No, we're not talking about jumping ship to Instagram Stories. On Tuesday, Snap introduced an un-Snapchat-like move that allows users to send ...