Do you want to know how to find someone’s birthday on Snapchat?
Snapchat is a mobile app that allows users to share disappearing photos and videos.
Snapchat can save you from forgetting friends’ birthdays by showing you a birthday cake mini icon on the day. Of course, this only works if the friend has a Snapchat account and if you look in your friend’s list for the icon.
If you have a friend who is an avid Snapchat user, why not celebrate by sending him or her a Snapchat birthday greeting?
Continue reading to learn more about how this popular sharing app works and how to seek out someone’s birthday date so you can send them a birthday snap.
What is Snapchat?
Snapchat was created in 2011 for private person-to-person photo sharing, but it has evolved to include many features, including:
- Instant messaging
- Live video chats
- Emoji caricatures called Bitmoji avatars
- Disappearing stories, similar to Instagram stories
- Photo filters
- Location tagging
- Daily news feed
How is Snapchat Different Than Other Apps?
Snapchat is different from other social media apps such that whatever you publicly share disappears automatically after 24 hours. This differs from Facebook, or Instagram, which collects and stores media such as comments, statuses, tweets, photos, and videos.
Instead of automatically collecting memories for you, Snapchat demands that you do this manually.
To open the memories screen, swipe up and tap the circle beneath the Capture button. This allows you to search for memories of the birthday boy or girl, mark them up, and send them.
If you want to save content on Snapchat, you can take a screenshot and then save that screenshot to your computer.
How to Find Someone’s Birthday On Snapchat
There are two ways to see someone’s birthday on Snapchat, from the Snapchat “Chat Page” or your “Snapchat Friends List.”
Method 1: Checking Your Snapchat Chat Page For A Friend’s Birthday
Here is how to check your chat pages for today’s birthdays.
- Launch the Snapchat app to find yourself on the Camera page.
- Swipe right to find yourself on the Chat Page.
- Swipe up until you find your friend’s name.
- If the name has a birthday cake emoji beside it, the friend is celebrating a birthday.
- Tap the friend’s name to send them a birthday snap or a birthday message.
Method 2: Checking Your Snapchat Friends List for Birthdays
Here is how to check your Snapchat friend list for current birthdays.
- Navigate to the Chat Page on the Snapchat app.
- Tap on the three horizontal dot hamburger menu on the upper right of the page.
- Choose the “Manage Friendships ” option from the menu that appears at the bottom of the screen.
- Search the “Manage My Friends” page to see who has the Snapchat cake emoji beside their name.
- Tap their name to send birthday snaps.
Using either of these methods eliminates the need to go to a Snapchat profile to find a person’s birthday.
How To See Upcoming Birthdays On Snapchat
It wasn’t until 2021 that Snapchat created a way to look up friends’ birthdays. This tool is called the Birthday Mini.
The “mini” is a cake icon that will point to a friend’s birthday date so that you can note it or be reminded of it within your app.
How to Use Snapchat Birthday Minis
To find out someone’s birthday using Snap chat Birthday minis:
- Navigate to the chat of the person in question and open the conversation screen.
- Click on the rocket icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.
- In the menu that comes up, choose Mini and go through the list to see the upcoming friend birthdays in the month. You can also use the search bar to locate the friend’s birthday on a calendar.
Birthday Minis has its own series of themed lenses that you can use to send photos as a birthday snap. This app also allows you to see who swipes up to view your birthday message.
Unfortunately, your friend’s birthday will not be listed if that person has not given their Snapchat contacts list permission to see dates.
The Snapchat Birthday Party Feature
The Snapchat birthday party feature is a one-day-only filter that enhances snaps or a Snapchat story.
The words “Happy Birthday” appear right on your profile photo to make it obvious that you are celebrating to everyone. You can also add elements like birthday hats, confetti, and other tweaks to your profile picture.
This optional feature serves those who would rather keep their date of birth or zodiac sign a private matter.
Creating Your Astrological Profile
Snapchat allows users to create a zodiac profile. This is based on entering your birth date, time, and birth location into the app’s feature.
A meme then posts your zodiac sign, the degree of the sun at your birth, your element (earth, air, fire, or water), and a brief personality profile.
When attached to your profile, the Snapchat astrological profile can help remind your friends that you have a birthday coming up. Conversely, a friend’s posting of this can be a subtle reminder to tap and send birthday snaps in the near future.
That’s it! I hope you now know to how to find someone’s birthday on Snapchat in your friend list.
FAQ
Here are frequently asked questions about birthdays on Snapchat.
What is Snapcode, and why does it matter?
A Snapcode allows you to access unique content and other features. Each time you use Lens Studio to create a lens, a code is generated to allow others to unlock it so they can see the content.
Snapcodes are unique because they can be posted anywhere, including on social media. The code can also be printed and used as a label on a birthday present.
What Is A Bitmoji Birthday Snap?
Bitmoji allows you to create an avatar and then utilize that avatar in chats. You can augment it with AR-based lenses, stickers, and other features to make your birthday message unique.
Final Thoughts
If you like your birthday greetings to be real-time, spontaneous, and creative, then Snapchat is the social media app for you.
If you want to keep your birthday greeting private, you can use Snapchat birthday mini to send a special image to the birthday boy or girl.
A great benefit of using Snapchat is that you will never have to worry about forgetting a friend’s birthday again. You can look at your friend’s list or any friend’s chat to see who has a birthday cake emoji beside their name and then send them birthday love.
