What is the minimum age required to create a Snapchat account?

The minimum age required to create a Snapchat account is 13 years old. Snapchat’s age rule reflects online child-safety and privacy requirements, including the role of the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.

The rule does not mean every 13-year-old receives identical access to every Snapchat feature. Some features, advertising experiences, content controls, and local legal requirements may vary by age or country. Snapchat may also ask users to confirm their birth date, and accounts believed to belong to younger children can be restricted or removed.

A frequent mix-up is confusing Snapchat’s minimum account age with the age of majority, which is commonly 18 or 21 depending on the legal context. Those ages relate to contracts, alcohol, gambling, or other regulated activities—not the basic eligibility threshold for opening a Snapchat account. Snapkidz, an older child-oriented mode, allowed limited offline-style creation but was not a standard Snapchat account.