How to Allow Camera Access on Snapchat?

Snapchat is on the fastest growing apps worldwide with around 293 million daily active users. This platform gained its popularity and is still famous for the variety of filters it provides to its users for clicking pictures. Hence, there are millions of people using this platform for the exclusive purpose of taking good photos.

Now, in any platform it is impossible to take picture if your app is not provided with camera access. It blocks the apps from being able to take any photos even when users are trying to capture it. And in Snapchat, if this happens Snapchat will be a waste of time for us.

So, if you a newbie or are facing issues while trying to allow camera access on Snapchat, worry no more because we have you covered with this article.

How to Allow Camera Access on Snapchat?

Snapchat allows you to capture pictures in its platform and save them, edit them and share these pictures/videos to your friends in the form of snaps. It is one of the best apps for sharing pictures so if the camera access is not available, it can be a bummer for us. When you have just downloaded the app and open the camera, it also asks you to allow or deny camera access. But, if allowing it doesn’t work, there are some other ways to do so as well. You can allow camera access on Snapchat by:

1. Using the Settings app

2. Using Snapchat Settings

3. Clearing the Cache/Updating/Restarting

1. Using the Settings app

To allow camera access on Snapchat using the Settings app, follow the given instructions:

For Android

1. Open the Settings app and click on ‘Apps/Apps Management’.

2. Scroll down and select ‘Snapchat’.

3. Click on ‘Permissions’.

4. Toggle on the ‘Camera button’.

For iPhone

1. Open the ‘Settings’ app.

2. Scroll down and select ‘Snapchat’.

3. Toggle on the ‘Camera’ option.

Once you do this, you will be able to use camera. Also try removing the screen limit to Snapchat so that all coasts are clear.

2. Using Snapchat Settings

To allow camera access on Snapchat using snapchat settings:

1. Open snapchat click on your ‘Profile icon’.

2. Click on the ‘Gear icon’ on top.

3. Scroll down to Privacy and select ‘Permissions’.

4. Tap to enable the camera option.

In this way, you can allow camera access on Snapchat using the Snapchat settings.

2. Clearing the Cache/Updating/Restarting

The above mentioned are the things that you must do to allow camera access on Snapchat. If doing these do not work, here are some other method you can try to ensure the working of your camera. They are:

Clearing the Cache

Sometimes the cache of the app maybe causing problems and sowing the app down. So, you can clear cache on Snapchat. To do this:

1. Open Snapchat and click on your ‘Profile icon’.

2. Click on the ‘Gear icon’ at top.

3. Scroll down and select ‘Clear Cache’.

4. Tap on ‘Continue’.

Updating Snapchat

One other method you can use to allow camera access on Snapchat in case permission allowance doesn’t work is to update the app. You can update the app from Play store so that your phone has the latest version of it and hopefully starts functioning normally.

Restarting your Phone

Restarting the phone and forcing the app to stop can sometimes help solve your problems in case the phone entirely is facing problems. It will allow your phone to cool and RAM to be reactivated and perform more efficiently.

Conclusion

Hence, these are the methods by which you can allow camera access on Snapchat. Remember that you must give Snapchat the permission to use camera so, follow the 1^st method mentioned above before doing anything else as others will not be effective if permission is not granted in the first place. And if doing this does not work, follow other alternative steps.

Hope this article cleared your doubts and now you can easily allow camera access on Snapchat.

Do leave comments if you face any confusion or have queries.