Under Snapchat’s privacy policy, all video, photo, and message content is deleted from servers after it’s been viewed by all recipients or after 30 days. ![]() Snapchats Are Saved on Snapchat’s Servers Read More: Can Hackers Breach WhatsApp’s Special Encryption? By changing the files’ extension, a process which can take up to six hours, users can restore their old Snapchats. The photo-sharing app stores media under a folder titled “RECEIVED_IMAGES_SNAPS” and titles each file with a “.NOMEDIA” extension, making it more difficult - but not impossible - to locate the files in question. Yet mobile forensics students uncovered an element of the app’s code that simply buries the photos, videos, and chats deep within the device rather than deleting them entirely. ![]() Where do sent Snapchat photos, videos, and messages really go? Can they ever truly be deleted forever?Īccording to Snapchat, all photos sent through the app are deleted from the recipient and sender’s phones after they’re opened. However, the lasting quality of all data uploaded to the Internet has prompted many users to question the legitimacy of this ephemeral claim. Each photo has a lifespan of up to 10 seconds and then disappears from the app forever. Snapchat, the popular smartphone video, and photo sharing app is marketed on the idea that all messages sent through the app are deleted immediately after being viewed by the recipient.
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