Who can contact you on Snapchat?
Short answer
Use Snapchat’s contact privacy control; review whether Friends or Friends and Contacts matches your preference.
Open the next guideWhat you need to know
Set the boundary for calls, chats and Snaps that reach your account.
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Find the contact control
Snapchat’s privacy settings include a Who Can Contact Me choice.
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Understand the current options
Snapchat currently documents Friends and Friends and Contacts. The old Everyone option is generally unavailable outside creator or business accounts.
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Limit suspicious contact
Do not share codes or account secrets in response to unexpected messages. If your account is at risk, use official security controls.
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Check group context separately
People in a group with you can still communicate within that group even when your direct-contact setting is Friends. This setting is not a ban on all group communication.
Contact and visibility are separate
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Someone can see a Story
That alone does not explain your incoming-message permission.
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A message reaches you
Inspect the account’s contact setting rather than inferring public access.
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A sender asks for a code
Do not share it; review the account independently of the message.
→ Next guide: A Snapchat sign-in alert you did not request
Official sources
Snapchat Support pages this guide is based on. Product details change, so check them before acting.
- Who can contact me? help.snapchat.com
- I got a sign-in alert I did not request help.snapchat.com
- Change privacy settings help.snapchat.com
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