How to Tell if Someone Screen Records Your Snapchat Post or Story Robert Hayes Robert is a freelance editor and writer living in Colorado. Read more July 15, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhGX2O1_tPMu0026t=6s Snapchat was originally created to provide a temporary chat experience. Pictures shared with friends on Snapchat would disappear ten seconds after being seen, while the more involved “Stories” would persist for 24 hours before vanishing. Because of this perceived privacy protection, Snapchat became notorious as a place for people to share their most intimate photographs. Because of that widespread use of the service, and even more so because so many of the site’s users are teenagers, concerns grew about the possibility that unscrupulous users of the site might use screen capture or screen recording technology to make permanent copies of the images that were supposed to be transient. Snapchat began creating a feature that would alert users if someone took a screenshot of their snaps.