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How to Change your Location Settings on Snapchat?

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We’ve all wanted to change our locations on Snapchat to bigger, better, and sometimes weirder places. Whether we want to surprise a loved one with an unexpected visit home or hide our true location, there are options to alter our locations on Snapchat. 

Snapchat uses GPS location, and so simply changing your IP address (which is what VPNs do) won’t be enough. You need to alter your phone’s GPS location, and although some VPNs can do that but most can’t. Nonetheless, it is highly recommended using a VPN to protect your online privacy and security while using Snapchat. 

If you want to avoid the headache of downloading new software to your iPhone, you can always change your Snapchat location settings instead. This won’t let you alter your location, but it will allow you to hide your location from certain people. 


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  When location-sharing options are on, Snapchat uses GPS tracking to pinpoint locations, but only when we open the app. Unlike other apps on our phone that use GPS, such as Google Maps and Find My Friends, Snapchat does not operate in the background. So, if we haven’t...