How to turn off Quick Add on Snapchat

Snapchat’s Quick Add is a feature that allows people to easily add other users as friends. But if you don’t want anyone to add you via Quick Add, you can turn it off, and it’s really easy to do.

Snapchat is one of the most popular social media platforms, with millions of people across the world using the app to chat with their friends using direct messages, photos, videos, and more.

There are a number of ways to add people as a friend on Snapchat, and one of these ways is through Quick Add, a feature that’s enabled by default.

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Why do I have Quick Add on Snapchat?

Quick Add suggests accounts you might know or that may be of interest to you, and allows you to quickly send them a friend request by tapping ‘Add’ next to their name, without needing to search them up.

However, if you don’t want to appear in anyone’s Quick Add tab, you can remove yourself from the feature.

How to turn off Quick Add on Snapchat

Removing yourself from Quick Add on Snapchat is simple, just follow these steps:

1. Open Snapchat.
2. Tap your profile in the top left.
3. Click the settings icon in the top right.
4. Scroll down to ‘Privacy Controls’ and then tap ‘See me in Quick Add.’
5. Switch the slider to the off position to remove yourself from Quick Add.

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If you decide that you want to show yourself again in Quick Add, you can activate it again at any time by going through the above steps and flipping the slider to the on position.

Even if you decide to not be shown in Quick Adds for other users, you will still be able to add other users through Quick Add. To find people to add, simply open up the Snapchat app and press the plus icon in the top right corner.

Here, you will find a list of users Snapchat think you might know, whether it’s from you having saved their number in a contact on your phone or through mutual friends.

If you want to learn more about how to use Snapchat, you can check out some of our other guides, including how to allow camera access on Snapchat and how to make a public profile on Snapchat.