Snapchat usernames are permanent
This is the shortest page on the site, because the honest answer is short: you cannot change it, and you cannot buy someone else’s.
Can you change or buy a Snapchat username?
A Snapchat username is permanent: it is set when the account is created and cannot be changed afterwards. Display names can be changed freely, and Snapchat’s terms prohibit transferring accounts, so a username cannot be bought or sold. The practical routes are creating a new account with the username you want, or a trademark or impersonation report where an account is using your brand.
Because the username is permanent and invisible to most of your audience, the display name and Public Profile usually matter far more than the handle. Most people arriving at this page need those fixed rather than the username they cannot have.
What is actually possible
- Change the display name, which is what most people see — free and instant
- Create a new account with the username you want, and migrate your audience
- File an impersonation report where an account is pretending to be you
- File a trademark complaint where an account uses your registered mark
- Secure a Public Profile under your brand, which is what verification attaches to
How we handle Snapchat
- 1
Say the hard part first
The username cannot be changed. If that is all you wanted, the conversation ends here and it costs nothing.
- 2
Display name and Public Profile
What your audience actually sees, and what verification attaches to. Usually the real fix.
- 3
Rights check
Where another account is using your mark, whether there is a trademark or impersonation case.
- 4
File
Through Snapchat’s IP or impersonation process with the documentation attached.
- 5
Proof
A screenshot of the outcome on the profile.
The specifics
- Username changes
- Not possible. Permanent from account creation
- Display name
- Changeable freely, and it is what most people see
- Transfers
- Prohibited by Snapchat’s terms
- Available route
- Trademark or impersonation report
What we will not claim
- We cannot change your Snapchat username. Nobody can, and anybody saying otherwise is selling you nothing.
- We will not buy an account to get a username. It breaches the terms and the account can be disabled.
- An impersonation report removes an account; it does not hand you its username.
Questions
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