On Snapchat, the story of your friend that you have already viewed will get the gray ring and one that you have not viewed will have a blue or purple ring depending on whether you’re viewing the contact from the Chat or Stories tab respectively. However, some stories have both purple ring and lock around them due to which some of the users are extremely confused.
What Does Purple Lock on Snapchat Story Mean?
well, the private stories on Snapchat will have a purple lock. It gives users more liberty of controlling the audience of their snaps. Before private stories were launched, if you did not want someone to see your stories, you had to block them on Snapchat entirely or had to send individual snaps to each recipient. Now, the private stories allow you to select the audience for your stories which you can share with the larger selected group only. So from now on, when you see the purple lock on your friend’s Snapchat story, it means only a few people are able to view that story plus the lock indicates that you haven’t watched this story yet and it will turn gray if you have watched it. Also Read: Snapchat for Web is now available globally
