How I Got Rid of Random People Adding Me on Snapchat

Having random people add you up on Snapchat can be quite annoying, here are a few tips to stop how to stop random people from adding you on snapchat peacefully.

#1. Turn off “Quick Add” on Snapchat

You can turn off the ‘Quick Add’ feature. Because the Quick Add section shows a list of people Snapchat thinks that users should add, especially when you are doing a search on the search page. Quick Add recommends based on one’s contacts and mutual friends.

It’s actually a good feature as it helps you discover friends that someone may not have added yet, but on the other hand, Quick Add exposes people’s usernames to an unknown group of individuals, and they can add them up randomly.

Open the Snapchat app.
Then click the profile icon at the top-left of the screen.
Tap the settings button at the top right, scroll down.
Select ‘See Me in Quick Add’ .
Toggle off the feature.

When you disable this, your username will no longer appear in the Quick Add section on other people’s apps. It will help minimize random friends on Snapchat.

#2. Unfriend random friends

Quick Add feature when disabled doesn’t do anything to block people that have already added themselves as a friend. You have to go through the in-app friends list unfriend/unfollow random users.

Open the Snapchat app.
Click the profile icon at the top-left.
scroll down and tap ‘My Friends.’
Check and see if there’s someone in the “My Friends” list that shouldn’t be there.
If there is, then hold down on their name until a pop-up appears at the bottom of the screen.
Tap More on the pop-up, tap and tap ‘Block.’

This removes the person from being a friend, and also prevents them from adding themselves as a friend in the future.

#3. Update contact settings

Updating the contact settings will also help you to stop random people from adding you on Snapchat.

Open the Snapchat app.
Click the profile icon in the upper-left corner.
Click the settings icon.
scroll down, and then tap ‘Contact Me.’
Select ‘Everyone’, then tap ‘My Friends.’

Only existing friends can now send Snaps, direct messages, and in-app calls , this will prevent random people from communicating with a user in any way.

#4. Disable people adding you on Snapchat by phone number

Snapchat users Add a phone number on Snapchat as a recommended form of two-factor authentication, which also helps with account recovery. By default, Snapchat allows other people to find a user by entering their contact number, once you use your phone number for two-factor authentication. This can lead to a lot of random people adding you as friends.

You can disable this:

Open Settings on Snapchat.
Click ‘’Mobile Number’ under ‘My Account’.
Then disable the toggle next to ‘Let others find me using my mobile number’.

You can also prevent people from adding you by email address. Click on ‘Email’ under ‘My Account’ and turn off the toggle next to ‘Let others find me using my email address.’

These features once disabled will reduce the amount of people adding you up on Snapchat.

Also to prevent random people from adding you on Snapchat, you should keep your username private and not share it on other social networks. Exposing your username will allow random people from adding you on Snapchat.

You can ensure stories remain private and visible only to your friends: