Aside from beautifying selfies, photos, and videos, Snapchat helps users back up their videos and photos helping them to access their files on any device they are signed in.
As most of us know, Snapchat is a popular image messaging social platform tailored for mobile devices that allows you to share your memories in photo or video form with friends.
Although, there are many backup photo apps such as Google Photos and the rest with less customizable features unlike Snapchat also allows you to edit a photo before importing them.
The downside of importing videos to Snapchat is that you can’t import videos longer than 10 seconds to it but… we’ll show you how to do that without stress.
In summary, this article explains how to share and import photos including short and long videos on Snapchat, the tutorial applies to iOS and Android devices.
How to Upload Saved Photos from Camera Roll to Snapchat
This section will teach us how to back up our camera roll to Snapchat (how to import our photos from our gallery to our snaps on Snapchat) for easy backup and accessibility as long as you have access to the account. Here we go…
- Firstly, launch Snapchat
- Tap on the icon at the left-hand side of the circle to navigate to Snap Memories
- Now, swipe left to “Camera Roll” from the snap section
- You’ll see all your photos and videos from your gallery listed there
- Open any image you’d like to move to Snapchat {you can also mark by holding multiple pictures but you’ll have to click on them one by one before saving if not; Snapchat will save all as a slideshow if you save at once}
- Now, click on the 3-horizontal dots at the top of the image and select “Export Snap” from the option.
- Now, from the sharing menu select Snapchat from the option.
- Next, You’ll be redirected to an editing dashboard where you can decide to customize your picture by either changing the effect, putting an emoji, putting some write-ups, or the rest.
- Finally, hit the Save the photo to your Snap by hitting the Save icon on the left-hand side of the imported image.
That’s it.
Go to your snaps and you’ll find the image(s) there and they’ll be successfully backed up when your internet connection comes up.
How to Upload Saved Videos from Camera Roll to Snapchat
This section will teach us how to import videos less than 11 minutes from our gallery to our snaps on Snapchat for easy backup and accessibility as long as you have access to the account. Here we go…
- Firstly, launch Snapchat
- Tap on the icon on the left-hand side of the circle to navigate to Snapchat Memories
- Now, swipe left to “Camera Roll” from the snap section
- You’ll see all your photos and videos from your gallery listed there
- Open any short video you’d like to move to Snapchat(you can open a long video and edit it on Snapchat before importing too)
- Also, you can mark by holding multiple short videos but you’ll have to click on them one by one before saving if not; Snapchat will save all as a slideshow if you save at once.
- Now, click on the 3-horizontal dots at the top of the image and select “Export Snap” from the option.
- Now, from the sharing menu select Snapchat from the option.
- Next, You’ll be redirected to an editing dashboard where you can decide to customize your video by either removing the sound, putting an emoji, putting some write-ups, or the rest.
- Finally, hit the Save the video to your Snap by hitting the SAVE icon on the left-hand side of the imported image.
That’s it.
Go to your snaps and you’ll find the image(s) there and they’ll be successfully backed up when your internet connection comes up.
How to Upload Long Videos on Snapchat without Losing Quality
This heading is for those who would love to upload their long videos to Snapchat without any restrictions and stress.
- Firstly, launch Snapchat
- Tap on the icon at the left-hand side of the circle to navigate to Snapchat Memories
- Now, swipe left to “Camera Roll” from the snap section
- You’ll see all your photos and videos from your gallery listed there
- Next, hold and mark all the long videos you’ll love to import to your Snaps
- Now, Click on the “Create” option from the option
- In the next section, give your story a name and click on “Save Story“.
- Finally, go to your “Snaps” section and you’ll see the videos there. {You can decide to remove the videos from the stories section too, it won’t affect the already saved file unless you delete it}.
That’s it.
Go to your snaps and you’ll find the image(s) there and they’ll be successfully backed up when your internet connection comes up.
You can also use the last method for saving long videos to save both photos and short videos but it’ll be better if you do it the way we discussed above, so feel free to use this simple guide to upload pictures and videos to Snapchat.
Here’s a video guide for you.
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