New Snapchat update will let you post photos from your camera gallery without appending them with white borders

Remember the time when you had to brag about being at someplace or with someone in real-time on Snapchat , but you that knew if you sent an older photo from your phone gallery the white borders around the photo would reveal your lie?

Well, a new update coming to the app will ensure that the white borders aren’t visible for older photos uploaded from the gallery.

As per a report by The Verge, starting from 25 January, Snapchat will be rolling out an update which will negate this white border around a photo being posted from your camera gallery, making it appear as though you have posted it in real time. However, if you try to post horizontal photos, they will be rotated and there is no way around that. Also, these photos will be labelled as ‘from camera roll’ at the very bottom.

According to the report, Snapchat claims to have done this to bring a more aesthetic feel to posting photos. there is also the possibility that this is could be a competing strategy against Instagram wherein the latter lets people post photos from their gallery to their Insta story as it is and also provides proper oreintation on horizontal photos.

Other features coming with the update include the ability to save inside chats. Long-pressing on a text chat will show you an option to copy the text and save it as well.

The update is currently available on iOS and does not seem to have come out on Android as of yet.