BackupMemories

How to download all your Snapchat Memories at once

The app only lets you export Memories you tap on one by one, which takes forever with a big library. But Snapchat will send you every single one if you ask for a copy of your data. It's free, and asking takes about a minute.

What would you like to download?

Pick one to see the steps.

Memories, step by step

  1. Open Snapchat's data page On a computer or your phone, go to accounts.snapchat.com, sign in and open "My Data". In the app it's in Settings, under "My Data".
  2. Turn on only "Export your Memories" Leave everything else off. It keeps your export smaller, and we don't use any of the rest anyway.
    • Export your Memories
    • Export JSON files
    • User information
    • Chat history
    • Spotlight
    • Shopping
    • Support history
    • Ranking and location
    • Other media
    • Other
    • My AI
    • Export shared Stories
    • Export Chat media
  3. Press "Request Only Memories" That asks for your Memories and nothing else. The list of your memories, with their dates and places, comes with it.
  4. Wait for Snapchat's email Snapchat says it aims to deliver within 7 days, and very big exports can take longer. Smaller ones often turn up within a day or two.
  5. Download every file The email links to your export, or you can find it on the same "My Data" page under "See exports". Big libraries come as several ZIP files. Download all of them and leave them zipped. We'd do it as soon as they arrive rather than wait.
  6. Add them to BackupMemories We launch soon . We put back the dates, places and captions, join the split videos, and you get everything back ready for your photo app.

Memories and chat media, step by step

  1. Open Snapchat's data page On a computer or your phone, go to accounts.snapchat.com, sign in and open "My Data". In the app it's in Settings, under "My Data".
  2. Turn on exactly these three switches Leave everything else off. It keeps your export smaller, and we don't use any of the rest anyway.
    • Export your Memories
    • Export JSON files
    • User information
    • Chat history
    • Spotlight
    • Shopping
    • Support history
    • Ranking and location
    • Other media
    • Other
    • My AI
    • Export shared Stories
    • Export Chat media
  3. Ask for everything and submit Turn the date range off so you get all your Memories, not just recent ones. Check your email address and press "Submit".
  4. Wait for Snapchat's email Snapchat says it aims to deliver within 7 days, and very big exports can take longer. Smaller ones often turn up within a day or two.
  5. Download every file The email links to your export, or you can find it on the same "My Data" page under "See exports". Big libraries come as several ZIP files. Download all of them and leave them zipped. We'd do it as soon as they arrive rather than wait.
  6. Add them to BackupMemories We launch soon and tick "Also save my chat photos and videos". Your chat photos and videos are saved by date, in a folder of their own.

Can you download all your Memories at once in the app?

Not really. In Memories you can tap the select icon, pick several Snaps and press "Export", but you have to tap every one yourself ( Snapchat's help page explains how). That's fine for a handful. For a few thousand, the data export above is the only sensible way.

Doing it on your phone

You can do the whole thing on a phone. On an iPhone the export downloads into the Files app; on Android it goes to your Downloads folder. So check you've got enough free space first, because a big library can be many gigabytes. If it's large, a computer on Wi-Fi is quicker.

What Snapchat sends you

One or more ZIP files, usually named like mydata~….zip. Inside are your photos and videos, plus a list of every memory with its date and location. There's more about the ZIP files and the list of memories if you're curious. You don't need to unzip anything to use BackupMemories.

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