Like any other social media platform, Snapchat comes with its own default emojis that indicate specific moods, interactions, and relationships between you and your contacts.
This goes for anything from best friends to Snapstreaks. But keeping the default emojis can get boring after a while. A little personalization goes a long way to making your profile and contact list seem more interesting.
If you want to learn how streak emojis work and how to customize them, check out the tutorial below.
The meaning of streak emojis
By default, Snapchat offers users three types of streak emojis:
Fire
The fire emoji shows that you and a fellow Snapchatter have been taking photos of each other daily, maintaining a streak of snaps. For the first few days of a streak, you won’t see any emoji. After three days, the fire emoji will appear. The number next to the fire emoji indicates how many days you have been on a streak with this person.
Some conditions need to be met before fire emoji appears. First of all, you both need to send each other snapshots at least once every 24 hours. Secondly, you need to keep doing this for at least three days before the emoji appears. That is the minimum amount of time required for this type of communication to be labeled as Snapstreak.
Hundred
As we mentioned before, a number will appear next to the fire emoji indicating how many days your streak has been active. When you reach 100 consecutive days, the hundred emoji will appear in front of the streak emoji instead of the base number. As your streak continues, you’ll see the number next to the hundred emoji increase, although the emoji itself won’t count for you.
Hourglass
The hourglass emoji is what you see when the streak is almost over. This indicates that you don’t have much time left before the streak restarts. If you want to continue, you’ll need to send it to Snap as soon as possible and hope to get one back.
The hourglass emoji appears after 20 hours of radio silence, so you and your friend have four hours left to keep up the streak.
How to change streak emojis
With each day you add to a Snapchat streak, you’re changing the default emoji number as the number of days continues to increase.
However, you can also change the standard fire emoji to another one. Here’s how you can do it:
- Open the snapchat application.
- touch your profile picture in the upper left corner of the screen.
- Tap on the Settings icon in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Scroll down and tap Customize emojis.
- Scroll down and tap Fast streak!
- Select any emoji you want from the list (note that the fire emoji will be the first in the list)
There you go; Now you can use a regular smiley face, tree, animal or any other emoji as your Snapstreak emoji.
Please note that when you make this change, it will not break your streak. The fire emoji will simply change, but the number that shows how long your streak lasts will remain unchanged.
If you also want to change the hourglass emoji, you’re out of luck. You can’t change it in Snapstreak! preferences, perhaps because it’s only temporary and lasts until you and your friend exchange snaps or let the streak go down.
The hundred emoji are also set in stone for now. When you reach the 100th day on your Snapstreak, this emoji will appear in front of your streak emoji. You can’t change this and you also can’t use different emojis to replace the number of days.
Frequent questions
Here are the answers to some other questions we’ve been asked about Snapchat emojis:
Can I replace other emojis?
The short answer is yes. If you follow the path mentioned above, Settings > Customize emojis, you’ll notice that there is an extensive list of other features besides Snapstreak. which you can experiment with.
Feel free to customize your Super BFF, BFF, Besties, BF, Mutual Besties and Mutual BF. This can help you make your contact list appear unique and more descriptive than the default version.
How can I get rid of Snapstreaks?
If you want to get rid of your existing Snapstreaks, there are a few different options. Unfortunately, Snapchat doesn’t have a setting to disable streaks completely, so you’ll have to keep deleting them if you want them to go away.
The first and most obvious way to get rid of a Snapchat streak is to ignore the other person on Snapchat for at least 24 hours. Sometimes this takes a little longer, as Snapchat gives its users a little leniency in the 24-hour response period, but if you wait at least a day and a few hours, you should reset your streaks.
The second way to get rid of a streak is to reset your friends’ emojis to default values. To do this, tap your profile photo at the top left of the screen, tap theSettings icon at the top right, then tap Customize emojis. From here, scroll to the bottom of the screen and tapReset to default. This will return all of your friends’ emojis to their default settings and erase all of your current streak information.
Will my friend see my updated emoji?
Unfortunately not. Snapstreak emojis are only visible to the person who updated them.
Stop chasing the mythical mountain
According to internet gossip, there is a mountain emoji that appears during very long active streaks. However, no one has yet been able to verify how long a streak like this should be. This is because no one has posted a screenshot of the mountain emoji.
Some people have maintained streaks of more than 1,000 or 2,000 days and, even so, there is no real proof of the existence of the mythical mountain.
The good news is that you don’t have to wait forever to exchange your fire emoji for something else. If you follow this tutorial, you can change your emoji streak at any time to anything else available in the emoji list.
