How To Save And Print Snapchat Messages
Partly. Snapchat deletes most chats by default, so only the messages someone saved can be printed. Those you can get, from Snapchat's My Data download or with screenshots.
Can I print Snapchat messages?
Only the ones that still exist. Snapchat says chats are deleted by default 24 hours after everyone in the conversation has viewed them, or 31 days after they were sent, whichever is sooner. It says a chat is kept longer if someone saves it. That is on its help page about deletion.
Saved messages can be printed, and read receipts sets them as a book with each person's name beside what they wrote.
How do I download my Snapchat chat history?
Sign in at accounts.snapchat.com, or open Settings in the app, and choose My Data. Pick what to include: saved chats are the category Saved Chat History. Choose a date range, or turn the range off to get everything. Confirm your email address and select Submit.
Snapchat emails you a link when the file is ready. It says it aims to deliver within 7 days and that large downloads can take longer. The download is a zip file. Snapchat's steps are on its help page.
What is in the download?
The saved chats, with who sent each one and when. The photos and videos sent as snaps are not in it. Snapchat also warns that saved messages from a chat may no longer be stored if you and the other person are no longer friends there.
Upload the zip to read receipts as it is, and we read the chat history inside it.
What if the chat was never saved?
Then it is most likely gone, from Snapchat and from the download, and we can't bring it back. Ask the other person whether they saved any of it. If the conversation moved to texting, those messages are still in your phone.
What you remember can be typed up, one message per line with the name first, and pasted in after you choose your book.
Do screenshots work?
Yes, for messages still on screen. If the book is meant to be a surprise, check first what Snapchat shows the other person when you screenshot a chat. After you choose your book, pick Screenshots, tick the box and upload them, up to 100, 20 at a time. They are read by Claude, Anthropic's model, only if you tick the box that says so, and we don't keep the screenshots.
Does the other person find out?
Only when you give it to them. Only one of you needs to do this, and we never contact anyone else in the conversation.
Their messages are in the book beside yours. When you order, you confirm that you're in the conversation and that the others in it would be happy to be in a printed book. The privacy policy says what we keep and for how long.
What does it cost?
The Unabridged, every message set as a novel, is $49 as a paperback and $89 as a hardcover. The digital edition is $19. US shipping is free.
Related Guides
- How To Download Your Instagram MessagesMeta's download, step by step.
- How To Make A Book From Dating App MessagesFor the conversation where it started.
- How To Print Text Messages From An iPhoneScreenshots for a short exchange, a computer for the whole conversation.
- A book of your texts with your best friendThe book, for best friends.
read receipts is not affiliated with Snapchat. Snapchat is a trademark of its owner. What this page says about Snapchat was checked against its own help pages on November 13, 2026, and apps change.
If You Want It As A Book
read receipts prints the Snapchat messages you saved as a book, in the order they were sent. You look through every page before anything prints. Or start with the free receipt.