Snapchat does allow users to change their birthday, but there are some restrictions, including how many times it can be changed. With social media services now taking a more responsible approach to protecting users and inappropriate content, ensuring an account’s birthday is correct can be more important than just making sure birthday wishes arrive on the right day.

Like many other apps and services, Snapchat allows users to set their birthday. Besides being a way to confirm the user is at least the minimum age to use Snapchat, there are some additional features available for those that declare their birthday. For example, Snapchat users can enable a ‘Birthday Party’ mode that also enables astrology-related Charms and adds a zodiac sign to the user’s profile.

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Setting a birthday on Snapchat is fairly simple to do and can be completed directly within the Android and iOS apps. The user just needs to open the app and tap on their profile icon and then on the cog icon to access the Settings menu. In the settings, and under the My Account section, there is a dedicated Birthday tab. Once clicked, the user will be able to set their date of birth. In addition, this same setting can also be used to edit and change the date by tapping on the current birthday and updating it to the correct one.

Snapchat Limits Birthday Changes

In the past, it might not have mattered which date a social media user set for their birthday. However, services are now taking community guidelines and user protections more seriously. For example, TikTok users are not able to manually change their birthday at all. Once it has been set, the birthday will remain the same on TikTok, even if it was accidentally or intentionally set incorrectly. While Snapchat does allow users to change their birthday, it also prohibits users from changing it too often, with the current limit being once. Therefore, if a Snapchat birthday has already been changed, the user will find they are unable to change it once again.

In cases where the birthday has been changed too many times and the limit reached, there isn’t a lot the user can do. The limit is there too simply allow an incorrect birth date to be changed to the correct one, and is not designed to make multiple changes. For those that have entered an incorrect birthday too many times, the only real option, other than deleting the account and opening a new one, is reaching out and contacting Snapchat to see if the team can manually make the date change.

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