Snapchat on Thursday rolled out an update for its iOS and Android apps that adds a new feature called Stories, which lets you share snaps with all of your friends at once.
"Snapchat Stories add snaps together to create a narrative," the Snapchat team explained in a blog post. "When you add a snap to your Story it lives for 24 hours before it disappears, making room for the new. Your Story always plays forward, because it makes sense to share moments in the order you experience them."
To play around with the new feature, simply create a snap like you normally would. When you're done creating your snapsterpiece, press the forward arrows for your contact list, and you'll see a new option called "My Story" at the top. Select that to add the snap to your Story.
After doing so, you'll see a circular thumbnail of your snap next to your name in the contact list. From here, you can click to view the snap in fullscreen.
"Your Story never ends and it's always changing," Snapchat said. "The end of your Story today is the beginning of your Story tomorrow. And each Snap in your Story includes a list of everyone who views it."
The Snapchat team said that "playing with Stories is the best way to understand it."
The new feature comes after Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel revealed last month that users are sending more than 350 million photos through the self-destructing message app every day. That figure is up from 150 million daily photo shares in April and 200 million in June.
Snapchat also recently released a new app for the just-unveiled Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, dubbed Snapchat Micro, which lets users send messages right from their wrists.