Snapchat will ask you where you live if you use its filters
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According to a thread on the Reddit Internet forum, Snapchat would be asking its users to activate geolocation in order to use some of its filters and masks. It is known that all applications request and require special permissions in order to function properly. A gallery, for example, will ask you for access to your storage in order to save the photos. A camera application will ask you for the geolocation if you want to see, later, where the photo was taken. But Snapchat had never asked for this permission.Until now.
Snapchat wants to know where you are at all times
This permission can be obvious if it is about using specific filters from the place where we are making the story. But it is not very logical to request the place where you live, simply, to take a color photograph, or put a cute dog face on you. The company has not yet declared itself in this regard, and all this new movement could be directed towards a new feature of the application. The latest notes on the app refer to the new function of 'Create personalized stories based on where we are'. That is why, in future updates, in order to fully use Snapchat we will have to let you know where we are at all times.
Everything becomes even weirder, when a Reddit user contributes a trick to be able to access the filters and masks without having to give geolocation permissions when they expressly request it.If when we are expressly asked to give the application permission to GPS services we refuse, but then we have them activated on the phone itself, we will have no problem using them. It is foreseeable that this hole will be patched shortly by Snapchat in order to force the user to have the permissions activated in the application.
Although Instagram is doing a lot of damage to the once-favorite app for teens, Snapchat doesn't seem to make it easy for it herself, neither. Will this new movement of the application mean a new decrease in users?
