What Does A Blue Ring Around A Snapchat Story Mean?

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Navigating the Snapchat app and all of its features can sometimes be tricky — especially when you see a weird blue ring around someone's Snapchat Story. If it seems like every big social app has a 'Stories' feature these days, that's because they do. Whether you're on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, or YouTube, social media Stories are everywhere.

But before any of that happened, Snapchat was the first app to make the Stories feature go viral. Snapchat Stories was added to the Snapchat app in October 2013. If you don't want to send a photo/video directly to a friend, the Stories option lets you make that post visible to all of your contacts for a limited 24-hour period. In the nearly 10 years since then, Stories have remained an integral part of the Snapchat experience. There's a dedicated 'Stories' page on the Snapchat app, posting to your Stories is easier than ever, andit's a feature that doesn't seem to be going anywhere any time soon.

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Despite the popularity of Snapchat Stories, that's not to say the feature is 100 percent self-explanatory. Stories are readily accessible and prominently featured on Snapchat, but knowing how everything works is another challenge entirely. A prime example of this is the blue ring that sometimes appears around a Snapchat Story. From the Stories page on Snapchat, new uploads from friends appear with a purple ring around them. So why does that purple ring occasionally turn blue? The answer is actually quite simple — even if Snapchat doesn't clearly explain it.

The various pages in the Snapchat app have different colors. You can see this on the app's bottom navigation bar. The camera page has a yellow accent