How about that new SnapChat update?

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Snapchat Stories now auto-advance, so when you get to the end of watching a friend’s Story or swipe left, the next Story in your list starts playing for easy lean-back watching that should boost view counts and encourage posting. Over 200

Stickers are now available in private chat, and ones related to text you’ve typed like “love you” or “hungry” are instantly surfaced when you press the Stickers button. (Snapchat’s $100 million acquisition of Bitstrips makes perfect sense now that it has stickers, though Bitmoji aren’t available here yet)

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Video Notes in Chat let you record and send a quick 10-second max thumbnail-sized GIF-like loop so you can react with your face, and they play audio too if the recipient taps

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Audio Notes work similarly, allowing you to send short voice snippets when you’re moving and can’t type, or have something to say Video and Audio Calls can now be initiated even if the recipient isn’t already chatting with you, turning Snapchat into more of a phone

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You can now send multiple photos at a time in chat, and mark them up with Snapchat’s text, drawing, and filter tools first

During Video and Audio Calls, you can simultaneously send camera roll photos to show someone something, and they appear translucent overlaid on the chat window
Chat 2.0 lets both conversation partners toggle on the fly between Video and Audio Calls, Video and Audio notes, stickers, and text as their environment or intentions change, so users can start or stop transmitting and just listen or watch

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A new Privacy Center site clarifies that Snapchat only temporarily saves snaps submitted to Live stories and deletes everything else, though nothing about privacy is changing

These updates roll out to all iOS and Android users today. For a video demo of these features plus a rant about why Snapchat won’t be easily beat, check out this video:

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