How to use the Snapchat Friend Solar System

Snapchat is one of the most popular social media apps and has been since it debuted in 2011. The app allows you to send photos and videos to friends, and they typically cannot or do not save the files. That means that you can send quick photos and videos, and they disappear after the person opens them. While there are other features that allow you to quickly replay them, the novelty of “see it, and then it’s gone” is what drives Snapchat.

The app lets users make Snapchat storieswhere you post videos and pictures to your profile for certain people to see, giving an up-to-date perspective on what you’re doing, where you are, and who you’re with. As with most social media apps, you can tag friends, customize your images with filters or emojis, and more. Snapchat has introduced video calling, group messaging, customized mapping, and other features since it came out, and one of the latest features is the Friend Solar System.

The Friends Solar System lets you order your friends in terms of how close you are with them and how much you communicate with them. It’s an easy way to organize your closest friends at the top of your list when you’re getting ready to send a snap. Here’s more on the Friend Solar System and how to access it.

Snapchat

Snapchat is a social media messaging app that allows users to send photos and videos to one another. With features like video calling and Snap Map, it lets users stay in touch more easily.

What is the Snapchat Friend Solar System?

Keep your best friends organized together

The Snapchat Friend Solar System is a paid feature that is available only through Snapchat+ subscriptions. If you’re a subscriber, you’ll see the Friend Solar System as an option with your eight “best” friends, meaning they are the eight people that you send snaps and chats to the most. Because this is a paid feature, you also get to see where you stand in their Friend Solar System as well, providing you with intel on who they snap and chat with the most as well, sort of a throwback to the original “Best Friends” list from the earliest days of Snapchat.

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To toggle on the Friend Solar System setting, you need to have a Snapchat+ subscription.

1. Sign up for Snapchat+.
2. Once you’ve done that, click on your Bitmoji at the top of the home page.
3. Click on the Settings menu at the top right.
4. Scroll down to Snapchat+, and click on it.
5. This brings you to the Snapchat+ feature management page. Click on Friend Solar System to turn it on.

How to understand the Friend Solar System

It does take some knowledge of our solar system to fully grasp it

If you have the Friend Solar System toggled on (it’s not automatically toggled on when you first get Snapchat+), go into someone’s profile that you are close friends with. If someone is one of your best friends on Snapchat, an icon will show up in their profile that states “Best Friend” with a gold ring around it. That means that they are in your Friend Solar System as well.

The order of your Snapchat Friend Solar System is similar to our solar system, with you being the Sun in this scenario. Your friends are given a planet that they coincide with in terms of how close they are to the Sun. For example, your closest friend is Mercury. Your next closest friend is Venus. Your third-closest friend is Earth, and so on all the way to Neptune.