What does a Sand Timer means on Snapchat?

If you are an active user of Snapchat, then at some point or the other, you must have seen a sand timer emoji next to one of your friends’ names and wondered what it means. Don’t worry, you are not the only one who doesn’t know its meaning, so let’s understand it in a simple way:

What is the Sand Timer Emoji on Snapchat?

The sand timer emoji appears on Snapchat when you are about to break your streak with your friend. Breaking the streak means that you have not sent any snaps to your friend today. The sand timer emoji tells us that if you do not send a snap quickly, then your snap streak will be broken.

When does the Sand Timer Emoji Show Up?

You see the Sand timer emoji when you haven’t sent any snaps to your friend for whom you have created a streak in the last 20 hours. The Sand timer emoji starts appearing before 24 hours, so that you can be alert and send snaps to your friend while there is still time.

How to Keep Your Streaks Safe?

Let’s know how you can avoid streak-breaking:

1. If you want your streak to remain forever, then you must send one snap daily to your friend
2. If you don’t have anything to send, then you can send a blank wall or a photo of anything
3. And ask your friend to send one snap daily
4. If you don’t remember to send the snap, then you can also set a reminder on your phone

How to remove the Sand Timer Emoji on Snapchat?

You cannot remove the sand timer emoji on your own. This emoji is removed automatically when you and your friend have exchanged a snap within 24 hours.

Steps to remove the Sand Timer Emoji:

1. Open Snapchat and click a random snap
2. Send this snap to your friend (not chat)
3. Ask your friend to send you a snap too
4. If both of you have sent snaps to each other in time, then this emoji is removed automatically.

What if Streaks Break?

If you are seeing the send timer emoji and still not sending any snaps, then after 24 hours, this send timer emoji will disappear from you and your streak will be broken, and you will have to start again from scratch, but don’t worry, you can start a new streak anytime.

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Final Note

The Snapchat Sand timer emoji is just like a reminder that tells you to send a snap to your friend while there is time, or else your streak will be broken. It is not giving you any warning. So if you get to see this emoji next time, so don’t panic- just send a snap!