Since Snapchat took away the divisive and public best friends list, users have been trying desperately to understand where they rank in their friends lists. While Snapchat promises privacy by deleting your messages and photos immediately after they're opened, the app still offers some sneaky ways to understand your ranking.
Snapchat's use of emojis is probably the best way to understand where you fit in. Here's what the Snapchat emojis mean in 2021.
The baby face emoji appears next to anyone you've recently added as a friend on the app, signifying that your connection with them is still young. Whether or not you message that person, this emoji will disappear a few days after you add them.
The smiling face emoji
Anyone on your friends list with the smiling face emoji next to their name is one of your best friends on the app. They're one of the people on your friends list who you Snapchat with the most, even if they're not your best friend IRL.
This emoji appears next to your top friend even if you are not their top friend.
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The three types of hearts
On Snapchat, there are three different heart emojis. If you open your feed and find a little yellow heart next to someone's name, that means you and that person have just become each other's number one best friend. This emoji only appears if you both Snapchat each other the most out of your friends list.
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The red heart emoji replaces the yellow heart if you've been best friends with them for more than two weeks. Again, you can only get this emoji if you're each other's most Snapchatted friend.
The red heart upgrades to the pink double heart after two months of friendship. Since Snapchat has removed the public best friends lists, the hearts are the best way to decipher rankings in other users' friends lists.
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The fire emoji
The fire emoji is usually paired with a number, signifying the length of your communication streak. To start a streak with someone, you each need to send each other a Snapchat photo or video message once a day for at least three days. Regular messages will not count toward your streak.
Once you've kept your streak going for 100 days, the 100 emoji will appear next to the fire emoji.
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The hourglass emoji
This emoji usually appears next to your streaks emoji. The hourglass means that your streak is about to run out, and that you need to send another Snapchat to that person if you wish to keep it. However, if they don't also send a Snapchat back to you, the streak might still go away if the timer is present.
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The face with sunglasses emoji
This cool-looking emoji signifies that one of your best friends on Snapchat is also one of their best friends. This means you both Snapchat the same people often, though it won't tell you which of your best friends you share.
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The grimacing face emoji
The grimace emoji appears next to the name of a user who shares your same best friend. You both send the most Snapchats to the same person, and the emoji will appear even if you don't talk to that user at all.
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The smirking face emoji
The smirk emoji means you rank higher in this user's friend list than they rank in yours. This means they likely send you a lot of Snapchats, while you don't send them as many.
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The gold star emoji
The gold star emoji signifies that this person has a Snapchat that's been replayed in the last 24 hours. If you don't allow Snapchats to be replayed, you might not be able to have this emoji next to your name.
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How do you change the emojis on Snapchat in 2021?
While this is what the emojis currently mean, users also have the option to change the emojis in their settings. To do this, go to the settings tab, and then under "Additional Services" click "Manage."
Select "Friend Emojis." Here you can not only see an up-to-date list of what each emoji means, but you can choose which emojis mean what. For example, if you want to change the streak emoji from a fire to a cookie, you can!
Yellow heart 💛: The yellow heart means you and another user are mutual top-ranked Best Friends. Red heart ❤️: The red heart appears when you've been mutual Best Friends with someone for two consecutive weeks.
😊 BFs. They're one of your Best Friends! You send a lot of Snaps to this Snapchatter, but they're not your #1 Best Friend. 😬 Mutual Besties. Your #1 Best Friend is also their #1 Best Friend.
💕 Pink Hearts — You have been #1 BFs with each other for two months straight. Dedication! 👶 Baby — You just became friends with this person. 😎 Face With Sunglasses — One of your best friends is one of their best friends. This means that you send a lot of snaps to someone that they also send a lot of snaps to.
Snapchat has determined that the two of you are no longer star-crossed lovers. You're just best friends now. Snapchat has friend zoned you; it's not permanent though. It's actually very fluid—you can go in and out of the friend zone as you wish.
The Blue Heart emoji 💙 depicts a classic representation of heart, colored blue. It can be used to express love, support, admiration, happiness, and excitement—particularly toward various things that have some relation to the color blue, from the Smurfs to Duke University to autism awareness.
😊 Smiling Face: This emoji appears when your teen and another user are each other's best friend, but not #1 Best Friend. 😬 Grimacing Face: This emoji indicates that your teen's #1 Best Friend is also someone else's #1 Best Friend, making them a mutual friend.
Best Friends are the friends you Snap and Chat with the most! They're featured front-and-center on the Send To screen, and the Chat section of your profile! You can have up to eight Best Friends, and they're updated regularly.
The number next to the 🔥 emoji shows how many days old your Snapstreak is. For example, 3 🔥 means that Snapstreak is 3 days old. How do I keep my Snapstreak alive? Keep sending photo or video Snaps back and forth every day with your friends, and your Snapstreaks will keep growing.
The Mending Heart emoji ❤️ depicts a heart with a bandage wrapped around it. It is typically used to represent recovering or healing (mending) from heartbreak or emotional pain.
So here it is—a thorough explanation of what each Snapchat emoji means. You are the user's top best friend for the past two weeks, according to the yellow heart. The yellow heart becomes crimson after two weeks if the romance continues.
Some younger Snapchat users may even use 11:11 as verb for reaching out to a love interest, e.g., Ooh, you should totally 11:11 him and see if he's interested. People also use 11:11 on social media to indicate they are making a wish, whether it be of seeing more cat pictures or seeing a close friend again.
The Snapchat yellow heart shows that you and the other person are each other's number one best friend. This happens when you are both each other's number one best friend for at least two weeks. When you see a yellow heart next to someone's name, it means that you are their number one best friend.
However, the Super BFF emoji will stay as long as you chat and share snaps mutually every 24 hours. If, for some reason, you stop chatting or sending and receiving snaps, the heart will automatically disappear in some days.
The growing heart emoji 💗 is used whenever someone wants to show an outpouring of love, joy, pride, or any strong, positive emotion that would cause your heart to swell or grow. (If your heart literally swells or grows, please contact a doctor immediately).
Read hearts emojis indicate that you've been best friends with another user for two consecutive weeks. Snapchat considers a “best friend” to be someone with whom you've exchanged the most number of snaps. Seeing a red heart next to someone's name means that your Snapchat relationship is going strong!
💛 Yellow Heart – You are #1 best friends with each other. You send the most snaps to this person, and they send the most snaps to you. ❤ Red Heart – You have been #1 BFs with each other for two weeks straight. 💕 Pink Hearts – You have been #1 BFs with each other for two months straight.
Can you have more than one "red heart" bestie on Snapchat? The answer to that in no. That red heart means that said person is your “best friend.” You can really only have one best friend in reality anyways because in reality, having a best friend is having a singular friend that you are closest to.
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