# Snapchat Provides New Options for the Holidays

Snapchat’s rolling out some new options for the vacations, that are designed to offer your Snap expertise a Christmas-themed refresh.

Properly, when you’re a Snapchat+ subscriber at the least.

First off, Snapchat+ subscribers will get entry to new app theme choices, together with seasonal backgrounds and buttons.

As you’ll be able to see in these examples, the choice themes will make our app look extra Christmas-y, with new shade palettes and presentation types.

Snapchat+ customers will be capable to decide from a collection of preset shade schemes and “rework the appear and feel of their Snapchat throughout each tab.”

They usually do look attention-grabbing. Possibly not fairly attention-grabbing sufficient to pay for Snapchat+ when you’re not a passionate Snap consumer, however attention-grabbing nonetheless.

Snap’s additionally rolling out new Bitmoji reactions in chats (additionally for Snapchat+ subscribers solely). 

So when you’re a paying consumer, you’ll have all-new methods to make use of your Bitmoji character to shortly reply to feedback in-stream.

Which will nicely get just a few extra individuals signing as much as this system, which already has 12 million subscribers.

For non-paying customers, Snapchat’s additionally received an up to date collection of holiday-themed Lenses, together with a brand new AI-generated “Ugly Sweater” generator. 

It’s additionally rolling out an choice to avoid wasting all the messages in a dialog for seven days. 

Which appears to go towards a key commandment of Snapchat use, in that your messages auto delete after 24 hours. However possibly, with individuals going away on holidays, and youths probably shedding entry to their system, or connectivity, over the interval, having a protracted retention time can be of worth.

It gained’t save your Snap Streaks, however at the least you’ll nonetheless be capable to view your chats.

Price noting, too, that Snapchat+ subscribers can already opt-in to protecting their Tales energetic for as much as per week. So possibly diverting from Snap’s conventional cut-off dates shouldn’t be as sacred because it was as soon as thought-about. 

The longer retention time is opt-in, by all chat contributors, and Snapchat hasn’t famous whether or not it is a short-term addition for the interval, or a everlasting setting to any extent further.

These are some attention-grabbing updates, which may assist Snap to spice up curiosity over the vacations, and get extra customers paying for its add-on parts.

And with Snap additionally not too long ago increasing its Snapchat+ gifting choices, you’ll be able to think about that many teenagers can be excitedly logging into these new options on Christmas Day.

You’ll be able to learn extra about Snapchat’s newest characteristic updates right here.