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25-point Snapchat privacy audit — Ghost Mode on Snap Map, Quick Add discovery, story audience, My Eyes Only, My AI data and two-factor.
This checklist covers the 25 Snapchat settings that decide who can find you, who can see your live location, who can message you and what stays saved after a snap disappears. It leads with Ghost Mode on the Snap Map, the Quick Add suggestion switch and mobile-number discoverability, because those three are how unwanted contact and location exposure actually happen. It also covers the story audience, Memories and My Eyes Only, Spotlight and Our Story submissions, My AI data retention, connected apps and two-factor authentication.
Open Snapchat Privacy Settings Checklist on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
The 3-hour and 24-hour options expire and put you back on the map — the checklist says to use 'until turned off'.
Memories, My AI conversations and Spotlight posts persist regardless of how a snap behaves in chat.
A parent checking a teen account and an adult using it socially get different orderings of the same 25 settings.
Open Snap Map, tap the settings icon in the top corner and switch on Ghost Mode. Choose 'until turned off' rather than the 3-hour or 24-hour options, because those expire silently and put you back on the map without telling you.
Two settings do most of the work: turn off Settings > Privacy Controls > See Me in Quick Add, and set Contact Me to Friends Only on the same screen. Also turn off 'let others find me using my mobile number' under Settings > Mobile Number, which is what links the account to a real person.
Snaps sent in a chat are generally deleted from Snapchat's servers after being viewed or after they expire, but that is a narrow claim. Memories are stored on Snapchat's servers, My AI conversations are retained, Spotlight posts are public, and a recipient can screenshot or photograph the screen with a second phone.
Only if you are sharing it. Snap Map shows your location to whoever you allow — everyone, a selected list, or nobody in Ghost Mode — and it updates when you open the app. Snapchat's Family Centre is a separate feature parents can use with a teen's consent, which shows who they are talking to but not the content of messages.