Snapchat filters or lenses is a feature on Snapchat that detects faces in your picture or video selfie and put special effects and sounds on it. Previously you had to pay to be able to use those filters lens, you can buy it in the lens stores. But then they find another way to monitize the app so this awesome feature is free to use now. Update: On Monday, October 10th, Snapchat released the latest update that brings some of the changes that had caused the problem: there is only one filter available. Try updating your app to the latest version 9. First, update your Snapchat app to get the latest features including new filters. Go to App Store or Google Play Store and check for the update whether it is available. Launch your Snapchat app and switch to front camera to take a selfie. Make sure you have enough light so the app can detect where your face is. Instead of tap the shutter button just like you always did when taking a selfie, tap and hold on your face. A few later, some filters will show up, select one of it. Some of the filter will ask you to open your mouth, just follow it. From the instruction above, the first reason why your Snapchat filters not working is because when you tap and hold your face. If your phone is slow, it could take a while to detect your face and show up the filters. If it takes to long when you hold it, try to restart your phone to free the memory, then try it again. The second reason is the internet. Yes, you must connect to the internet to make Snapchat filters work. Make sure your phone are connected to Wifi or mobile data. Snapchat uses big amount of data, so you better have an. Some brands, companies, or movies are using Snapchat as media promotion. As and , they created a Snapchat filter lens to promote the movie. Advertised filters are not last forever, they only available for days or even hours for the campaign. So when the hype is over, do not even ask why you do not have it. You have to keep up with the news. For Android, lenses or filters are supported on most devices with Android 4. For iOS, lenses are supported on iPhone 4S, iPod 5th generation, iPad 2nd generation, and Original iPad Mini devices and above. I just got a new I phone 6 s, I have installed the latest version of snap chat it has let me add friends take normal pics but when I hold the screen for the filters to come up it does but just in loading mode and I have been trying this for 3 days now and getting very frustrated. I have plenty of data and even use wi fi so what is the problem? My Snapchat will NOT detect my face!!! Also, my additional services is different to the defaukt ones shown on the Internet. I so not have the filter option and the front flash. I have already sent an email and I am waiting for a response. I literally updated snapchat yesterday and after the update I went back on and went to the filters. The filters work but after I tap the camera to take the picture it just blacks my screen and goes to home screen. I have iPod 5g. It changes my face, so the face detection system works, as does the cartoony face change, but for neither love nor money will it change my voice. I just bought a new phone and the videos were working perfectly fine up until last night. I am able to take videos without filters but not with them. There is a message saying lenses are not supported. But it has been working fine up until now? I can access the filters and take photos but no videos. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and clearing my data. I have an android. The filters and voice changers were working fine two days ago, but yesterday I realized that even though the filters are still working, the voice changers are not. I updated, uninstalled, reinstalled, cleared storage and data. I have a Samsung galaxy s4 and it does work using the filters or lenses to take a photo. PLEASE ANSWER QUICK I have the same problem some folks are having. It worked fine for the longest time and then one day it just stopped working. Everything else works fine. I have a Galaxy 4. Lenses are supported on most devices with Android 4. On iOS, Lenses of filters are supported on iPhone 4S, iPod 5th generation, iPad 2nd generation, and Original iPad Mini devices and above. On Android, Lenses are supported on most devices with Android 4.
