Snap’s shutting down the app that put cool filters on your Zoom calls

When you open the app, it shows an announcement saying it’ll no longer be available.

On January 25th, Snap will be shutting down its camera app for Mac and PCs. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, you may remember it as the program that let you apply silly filters to your face while you were on Zoom or other video conference calls. It’s also, as Verge alum Billy Disney pointed out on Mastodon, the reason a boss accidentally showed up to a work meeting as a potato in 2020:

my boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting and can’t figure out how to turn the setting off, so she was just stuck like this the entire meeting pic.twitter.com/uHLgJUOsXk— clegg (@PettyClegg) March 30, 2020

Snap announced the change on its support page for Snap Camera, saying that it’ll “no longer be available to use or...

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