Editorial standards

How the 39 guides on this site are researched, written, sourced and rechecked — and why they carry a desk byline rather than a personal one.

Who writes these guides

Guides are produced and edited by the Evez editorial desk and are attributed to Mical Robert. That is a deliberate choice rather than an omission.

Why there is no personal byline

A named author with a photograph and a biography is a well-known way to signal expertise. It is also trivially easy to fabricate, and a fabricated one is a misrepresentation of who is speaking to you. We would rather tell you plainly that this is desk-written content, and let the sourcing and the reasoning carry the weight instead.

If a guide is later written or reviewed by a named individual with relevant expertise, that person will be credited on the guide itself and on this page, with a verifiable public link. Until then, the desk owns every word.

Where the expertise comes from

Guides are built from three things, in this order of authority:

Snapchat’s own documentation. The help centre is authoritative for how a feature is meant to work, and it is the first place we go. When our guide and Snapchat’s documentation disagree, theirs wins.
Regulatory and corporate filings. For questions about data retention, company history and what Snap has formally stated, primary documents — Snap’s privacy policy and transparency reporting, its SEC filings, FTC proceedings — are better than any secondary write-up.
Observed behaviour, labelled as such. Some things are simply not documented. Where a guide describes behaviour that Snapchat has not published, it says so in the text rather than presenting it as established fact.

How sources are handled

Every guide cites its sources in a list at the foot of the page. There are 117 source citations across the site.
Each citation says what it supports. A source is no use if you cannot tell which claim it backs, so every one carries a one-line note naming the specific claim.
Every URL is checked. Before a source is used, its URL is requested and must return a valid response. Links that break are replaced, not left to rot.
No journal homepages standing in for papers. Where an academic source is ever cited, it will be the specific paper with a verified DOI, never the publication it appeared in.

Numbers and estimates

Some figures on this site — typical cache sizes, data used per minute of video call, how reliably a workaround succeeds — are estimates rather than published values. Every one of them is labelled as indicative in the caption beneath it, with a note about what it depends on.

Where a number matters and we do not know it, we say so and tell you where to look it up in your own account. The Memories storage allowance is the clearest example: it varies by region and has changed during rollout, so quoting a figure would be worse than useless.

Keeping guides current

Snapchat changes constantly. Every guide carries two dates: when it was published and when it was last checked. The second is the one that matters.

Guides describing menu paths are the first to go stale and are rechecked most often.
Guides about policy — deletion windows, storage tiers, what is retained — are rechecked when Snap publishes a change.
Where a feature is being rolled out gradually and readers may see different screens, the guide says so rather than pretending there is one correct path.

Corrections policy

When we get something wrong, we correct the guide in place and update the last-checked date. We do not quietly rewrite a claim and leave the date untouched. If a correction changes the substance of an answer, the guide notes what changed.

Report an error to contact@evez.online, naming the guide and the claim.

Independence statement

No relationship with Snap Inc.

Evez is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to Snap Inc. We receive nothing from Snap, have no access to anything the public does not, and are not accountable to the company in any way. Guides criticise the product where criticism is warranted.

No affiliate links. Nowhere on this site.
No sponsored content. Nothing here has been paid for by anyone.
No gifts or access. Nothing has been provided by Snap or by any app maker.
Advertising, if present, is separated from editorial. Display advertising currently runs on this site. Advertisers see nothing before publication and have no influence over content.

What we do not publish

There is substantial search demand for content about accessing other people’s Snapchat accounts, evading enforcement, and using modified clients. We do not publish it. Where those topics appear, it is to explain why the tools do not work and what they cost the person who tries them.

Contact the desk

contact@evez.online reaches the editorial desk directly. See contact for what to include, and about for why the site exists.