You Can Now Apply Snapchat Face Lenses Even After Clicking A Photo

Among the battle to regain the beloved of fans for its much-hated redesign, Snapchat seems to be testing a agglomeration of new features to make it more useful for its users. We have discovered that Snapchat now enables you to add together face up lenses to your selfies subsequently a photo has been clicked.

If you've ever used Snapchat in your life, y'all may know that you can simply tap on your face while clicking a selfie to bring up a collection of lenses. You tin swipe between them and select whatsoever ane to accessorize your selfies. It, however, now seems like Snapchat is using its facial recognition algorithm to provide yous the lenses even later the photo has been clicked.

Note : We tried out this characteristic on Xiaomi Redmi Note iii, running the app'southward beta version 10.27.i.0 and Google Pixel 2, running Snapchat's stable version x.26.5.0, and information technology worked perfectly fine both times.

Equally for how the feature works, it'south equally simple as using whatsoever other image editing tool available within the app. Once yous've clicked a photograph, Snapchat volitionbear witness yous a 'Smiley' icon below the 'Paperclip' link icon. Tap it to access the consummate range of face lenses and select whatever of them, be it the infamous dog ears or blossom tiara (as yours truly did).

Information technology is important to note that the smiley icon volition only make an appearance if the app detects your confront conspicuously, and doesn't show upwardly when only half your face is visible, or for inanimate objects.

In addition, Snapchat likewise seems to exist testing the hands-free video shooting mode, which was rumoured to be coming earlier this month. Once yous start recording a video by long-pressing the photographic camera icon, you tin can just slide down to a new 'Lock' icon and release your finger to shoot a video every bit yous would with the photographic camera app.

Yous tin tape up to six Snaps, i.e 60 seconds of video, in the hands-free mode. This has been 1 of the virtually requested features and Snapchat users will exist ecstatic to finally take this characteristic available to them but still, after Instagram Stories – which has had the hands-free mode from the start.

Ever since its redesign and the following backlash, the Snapchat developers team has been operating like clockwork to churn out new features to its imperceptible messaging app. Earlier in the day, nosotros reported that the app is borrowing a folio from Instagram Stories' book and has added the option to 'mention' people in its own Stories. And so, take you received whatever of these new features? Tell us in the comments below.

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