{"id":4088,"date":"2017-03-14T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/snapchat-launches-bitmoji-widget-chat-shortcuts-for-your-home-screen.html"},"modified":"2017-03-14T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T23:23:09","slug":"snapchat-launches-bitmoji-widget-chat-shortcuts-for-your-home-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/snapchat-launches-bitmoji-widget-chat-shortcuts-for-your-home-screen.html","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat launches Bitmoji widget chat shortcuts for your home screen"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Snapchat is doubling down on private messaging\u00a0as Instagram and Facebook Messenger clone and steal usage from its Stories feature.<\/p>\n

Now you can instantly start chatting with your best friends on Snapchat. Instead of digging a chat thread out of Snapchat, users can select their favorite friends, create Bitmoji widgets for them with their personalized avatars and click them from their iOS Today screen or Android home screen to launch straight into a chat with that friend. A Snap spokesperson confirmed the feature launch to TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

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Snapchat first started testing<\/a> this last week in Android beta<\/a> but today it rolls out to everyone thanks to an iOS<\/a> and Android<\/a> app update. Snap acquired Bitmoji<\/a> in March 2016 for $64.2 million to allow you to make avatars that look like you and send them as stickers in Snapchat.<\/p>\n

To add Bitmoji widgets on iOS, swipe right from your home screen to the Today screen where you see your existing widgets. Scroll down to \u201cEdit,\u201d add Snapchat and your \u201cSnapchat Best Friends\u201d (based on your interaction) who have created personalized Bitmoji avatars for themselves will automatically appear as widgets on the home screen. Tapping the widgets launches a chat with them. On Android, you tap and hold on an empty part of your home page, select \u201cWidgets,\u201d choose Snapchat and choose up to four friends to make into home screen widgets.<\/p>\n

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While Facebook might be throwing all its might behind cloning Snapchat Stories, it hasn\u2019t so aggressively copied the disappearing messages that Snapchat started with. By redoubling its efforts in chat, Snap could entrench itself as the most casual, low-pressure way to talk with friends since all messages delete themselves by default.<\/p>\n

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