Location

We use your device’s location to support all kinds of features, like Geofilters, Snap Map, and to show you what’s nearby in Search. We also make guesses about where you live and work, so your Bitmoji on Snap Map can reflect what you might be up to. You can still use Snapchat if you disable location permissions in your device’s settings, but many of these features won’t work right (or at all!) without it. Even without location permissions, Snapchat can sometimes still guess your approximate location based on your IP address — but it’s not perfect. Since we collect and use location data for specific purposes, we’ve presented the data to you in the various ways we store it. The sections below explain how we use your location data in the context of providing you with interesting product features, as well as meeting some important business needs.

Latest Location

Your Latest Location is the last location we've saved for you, based on your IP address. Sometimes there's a delay in getting this information and, like Frequent Locations, we might not always get it exactly right.

City	Country	Region

Home & Work

Depending on which features you use, we may try to guess roughly where your home and work are located. We call these guesses “Inferred Home” and “Inferred Work” locations. For example, if you’re at the same location between 9am and 5pm on weekdays, we might guess that’s your Inferred Work location. We limit these guesses to pretty broad areas (usually between 800 and 25,000 square meters).

You also have the option to provide us with your home and work location. We call these locations “Declared Home” and “Declared Work.”

Inferred Home:
Inferred Work:
Declared Home:
Declared Work:

Location History

If you enable location permissions on your device, we store a list of the locations you’ve visited.

Time	Latitude, Longitude

Businesses and places you may have visited

Places You May Have Visited on Particular Dates

Date	Name

Inferred Visitation Information By Name & City

Place Name	City Name