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Here are a few things that I experience on android.

-When snapchat is foregrounded my phone wont go to sleep.

-Sometimes the camera will just go black, hang, and crash the entire app. I don't know why, im guessing it could be filters.

-Taking a snap with a filter applied sometimes just takes the photo without the filter.

-The memories section is useless, and seems to only exist to keep pictures out of my freely accessible storage.

-Adding things to the images like text or smilies is okay for a single item, multiple things on an image becomes very cumbersome with you resizing things you didnt want to resize.

-the main inbox screen is very cumbersome, tap views a snap, sometimes it lags, and i tap again, only for it to show me a snap for less than a second and disappear. Double tap replys if you just viewed a snap, If you don't double tap perfectly it may think you want to swipe right to chat.

-Inbox keeps getting slower, I get instant push notifications and tap one to go to my inbox, only to wait 2-3 seconds for the inbox to update, sometimes on top of that it hasn't even received the data and i hate to wait for that too.

-Chat and text messages are stupid, You will lose messages because you swipe back to your feed the exact time someone sends you a new message, and kaput the text is gone forever, sometimes messages stay and sometimes they don't and i cant figure out why. I used video chat once and it was a horrible and laggy experience, one which i've never tried again.

-Stories are starting to add ads, which i understand, but the comic event where "the ads load faster than the real content" happens.

-If a story hasn't downloaded the next snap, the app just stops responding until it is downloaded and ready. Most of the time it will register any tap in that frozen state and will skip the snap when the picture/video is finally loaded.

-a few controls like text/drawing color are 1-2 millimeters wide on some phones and makes selecting them infuriating.



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