{"id":450844,"date":"2022-06-30T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=450844"},"modified":"2022-06-30T13:35:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:35:53","slug":"snapchat-premium-subscription-service-arrives-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/450844-snapchat-premium-subscription-service-arrives-this-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat premium subscription service arrives this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat users will get access to the social platform\u2019s subscription service starting this week, The Verge <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/6\/29\/23187132\/snapchat-plus-subscription-announced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat Plus will cost $3.99 (R64.66 a month) and give exclusive access to mostly cosmetic features for now.<\/p>\n<p>Premium users can change the app icon\u2019s style, see which contacts rewatched their story, and pin a friend to the top of their chat history.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat calls the pinned contact your \u201c#1 BFF\u201d, and includes several features built around it.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Snapchat Plus subscribers will be able to see their orbit with their BFF and view the friend\u2019s whereabouts in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>However, app researcher and developer Alessandro Paluzzi <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex193a\/status\/1537441543925116937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a><\/strong> that location tracking only works if the pinned contacts consent to share their location data.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-450852 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Snapchat_Plus_screenshots-492x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Snapchat_Plus_screenshots-492x533.jpg 492w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Snapchat_Plus_screenshots-369x400.jpg 369w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Snapchat_Plus_screenshots.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Snapchat senior vice president of product Jacob Andreou told The Verge that premium subscribers will still see advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>On 16 June, Snapchat <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/449178-snapchat-testing-subscription-service-with-friend-location-tracking.html\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a><\/strong> it was internally testing the Snapchat Plus service after Paluzzi discovered the code.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat is the latest social messaging service to join the trend of adding premium services to paying customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/449530-telegram-premium-launched-what-you-get-for-r89-99-per-month.html\">Telegram launched its subscription service<\/a><\/strong> on 20 June.<\/p>\n<p>Telegram Premium\u2019s features include removing ads from public channels, increased upload file sizes and download speeds, and unique animated reactions.<\/p>\n<p>It also offers cosmetic features such as changing how the app\u2019s icon looks on smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/449530-telegram-premium-launched-what-you-get-for-r89-99-per-month.html\">Telegram Premium launched \u2014 what South Africans get for R89.99 per month<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat Plus will be available to consumers starting this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341094,"featured_media":450850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[22637,79446],"class_list":["post-450844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-snapchat","tag-snapchat-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450864,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450844\/revisions\/450864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}