Snapchat is a well-known platform that prioritizes your safety and privacy when sending texts and sharing media. Messages either in the form of texts or media get deleted after 24 hours unless saved in the chat, making the app an excellent choice for young adults and teenagers to send risque texts. However, there might be cases where you might not even want to send that snap.
You can only delete a video on Snapchat if the recipient has not opened the snap to see its content. If it hasn’t been opened, you can delete the snap, which will automatically unsend the video. However, Snapchat will notify the person that you deleted a message. Simply open the chat, tap and hold the snap, and click on “delete”.
Another case where you can delete a video is when you’ve saved the video in chat and do not want to see it anymore. You can either unsave in chat and let it delete by itself in 24 hours or delete it immediately and forget it ever existed. You can also delete a video from your story by swiping to the video in your story and tapping the bin icon to get rid of it, and lastly, you can delete videos from your memories.
This article will go over the steps involved in deleting a video from a conversation, a saved chat, your story, and your memories.
How To Delete a Video in a Conversation on Snapchat
This process is beneficial when you mistakenly send a video message to someone, and you need to delete it to save face. Snapchat allows you unsend the message if you’re fast enough and the person has not opened it.
These are the steps involved in deleting a video yet to be opened on Snapchat:
- Launch your Snapchat application.
- Find the chat that has the video snap you want to delete and open it.
- Tap and hold the snap till an option pops up.
- Click on “delete”.
You’ll see the tag “delivered” or “opened” underneath the snap. If it still has the tag “delivered”, the recipient has not opened it, and you can go ahead to delete the snap. However, if it has “opened”, the snap cannot be deleted. Also, Snapchat will alert the recipient that you deleted a message when you do.
How To Delete a Video From a Saved Chat on Snapchat
If you’ve sent a video or have been sent a video before and have saved it in chat, it’ll remain in the conversation forever till you delete it.
You can delete a video from a saved chat in the following steps:
- Launch the Snapchat application.
- Find the chat with the saved video in your chat list.
- Click on the chat and scroll to the saved video.
- Hold the video and click on “Unsave in Chat”.
- Hold the video again and click on “delete”.
You should note that the video in the saved chat will only delete on your end if it’s only you that saved the video in the chat. If the person has the video saved in chat and is unwilling to delete it, the video will remain in that conversation.
How To Delete a Video From Your Snapchat Story
If you’ve uploaded a video on your story and think it has reached its target audience or outlived its usefulness, you can easily delete the video from your story.
Deleting a video on your Snapchat story is pretty simple, and the steps are highlighted below:
- Launch your Snapchat application.
- When it opens the camera screen, swipe left.
- Swiping left will show you your snap stories.
- Tap on “My story” and swipe up on the story you want to delete.
- Click on the “bin” icon to delete the video from your stories.
You can delete a video from your snap story regardless if a person has seen it or not. However, if you sent the video to your story by mistake and want to undo it, all you need is to hurry to get the video deleted before anybody sees it.
How To Delete a Video From Your Snapchat Memories
Snapchat helps you keep your saved snaps on a page known as memories. The memories page is accessed by clicking the card icon to the camera’s left when you open Snapchat. It’ll have all your snaps from the first one you took to the most recent.
You can delete videos from it in these simple steps:
- Launch the Snapchat app.
- Navigate to memories by clicking the cards icon to the left of your camera.
- Scroll and find the video you want to delete.
- Tap on the video and click the three dots icon to the top right.
- Click on “delete snap” in the options that show.
Conclusion
With this guide, you now know how to delete videos from Snapchat in all places you can have a video. Remember to use snap responsibly to avoid embarrassing situations.
