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SNAPCHAT best friend lists might be a thing of the past, but the little emojis next to your friends’ names still mean something.

Here are the facts confusing emoji next to the names on your list…

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What do the Snapchat emojis mean?

Snapchat isn’t just a photo sharing app – this one small emoji have a lot of meaning.

In case you have no idea, that’s what these graphs mean.

You can personalize these in Snapchat settings so they can mean whatever you want.

gold star

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Someone has replayed this person’s snaps in the last 24 hours.

yellow heart

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You’re best friends number one – you two send each other the most snaps.

red heart

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A nod to the old days of Snapchat, this little icon lets you know who your best friend is. It appears when you’ve been best friends number one for two weeks.

pink hearts

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This is your Snapchat super BFF. It appears when you and your boyfriend are best friends number one for two months.

infant

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A rarer emoji if you don’t share your Snapchat username very often. That means you just made friends with that person!

face with sunglasses

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This is great for finding out who your best friend’s best friend is. The sunglasses emoji tells you if one of your best friends is one of your other friends’ best friends.

grimacing face

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Possibly an awkward moment when this appears, but it means that your number one best friend is that person’s number one best friend.

Grinning Face

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An emoji that fits the meaning, you are one of their best friends – but they are not your best friends.

smiling face

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In the all-important best friend status on Snapchat, this is a common one as it symbolizes your best friends, but not your number one best friend.

Fire

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You’re on a snapstreak — you snapped that person every day, and they snapped you back. This is accompanied by the number of days your streak lasted, starting at three days.

Hundred

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A special emoji for your 100 day snap streak, this is the only number of days a specific emoji has.

hourglass

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Your snap streak is coming to an end and you must grab that person immediately to keep him alive. If you see this, you have about 24 hours before the streak ends.

birthday cake

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This friend’s birthday is today, you can also send him a special filter.

Are Snapchat emojis different on an iPhone and an Android phone?

The emojis are the same for every operating system unless you edit them.

All emojis are defined by Unicode to standardize the emojis that everyone uses regardless of platform.

They might look a little different, but the emoji meaning is the same no matter what device you’re using.

If you change your emojis on your account, they stay the same even if you swap phones.