Snapchat has announced that its end-of-year Recaps are gradually rolling out to users, providing a personalized look at 2025. A Recap is a short video that offers a personalized view of the year’s brightest moments from Snaps, Stories, and Chats, showing how users communicated and expressed themselves throughout the year.
To view your Recap, open the app and select the Memories section. There will be a card titled “Your Snap Recap for 2025”.
This comes as similar service platforms, such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Duolingo, have also released their own recap videos.
Along with the Recaps, Snapchat released usage data for the year. For example, users spoke an average of nearly 1.7 billion minutes per day during phone calls, up almost 30% from the previous year. Also in the United States, more than five billion voice messages were sent, about a 10% increase from the previous year.
Group chats remain a popular way to communicate: the number of people sending messages in group chats grew by more than 5% in 2025, and some users sent over 8,880 messages in their most active group chat of the year.
Key takeaways and context on data storage
Chat activity rose 44% this year, with the heart emoji becoming the most popular symbol. About three million people also used stickers to communicate.
The appearance of the 2025 Year in Review coincided with some users’ disappointment over the company’s plans for paid data storage next year. In September, Snapchat announced that free access to Memories would be limited to 5 GB. If a user’s memories exceed the limit, they would need to enroll in one of the new Memories Storage plans.
The first storage tier offers up to 100 GB for $1.99 per month. Snapchat+ subscribers get up to 250 GB for $3.99 per month, while Snapchat Platinum provides 5 TB for $15.99 per month.
The author of this post is Aisha, a consumer news journalist. In 2021 she joined the publication after working as a telecoms reporter at MobileSyrup. Aisha holds an honors bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in journalism from Western University.
