Snapchat Proxies: Residential & Mobile IPs

A Snapchat proxy is a proxy you route Snapchat's traffic through, so Snapchat's servers see the proxy's IP and location instead of your own connection. Snapchat has no proxy setting of its own; you set the proxy on the phone's Wi-Fi network, or in the browser profile that runs Snapchat for Web.

Most people with one personal account do not need one. You need one when:

• you run brand or client accounts from one office, and each should keep its own IP instead of sharing the office's;
• you check ads and content by country, such as how a Snap ad, a Discover story or a Spotlight trend shows to viewers in another market;
• you work while travelling and want a brand account to keep connecting from its usual country.

A proxy changes the IP. It does not change your phone, your account's history or Snap Map, which follows the phone's location services rather than the IP. How proxies work: What Is a Proxy Server? How It Works, With Examples.

Give each account its own sticky mobile session or dedicated ISP IP, its own device or browser profile, and one home city, and never let two accounts share a line. Snapchat can link accounts that log in from the same IP and device.

Managing your own or your clients' Snapchat accounts is allowed. Bulk-created accounts, fake friends or views, and mass messaging are not, under Snapchat's rules or ours.

Sticky. A logged-in Snapchat account should keep one IP for the whole session and come back from the same city: ProxyField's sticky sessions last from 30 seconds to 36 hours, with presets of 1, 5, 10 and 30 minutes and 1, 3 and 6 hours. An IP that changes mid-session can log the app out or trigger a security check.

Rotation, a new IP on every request, fits only logged-out checks of public pages, such as a public profile or a Spotlight page on the web. Re-using a session after 36 h: not possible, since after its ttl ends the same session ID does not bring back the same IP. See Sticky sessions up to 36 hours.

With an IP in each target country, you see your Snap ads, their landing pages and the local Discover and Spotlight content as viewers there do. This is ad verification: checking that an ad runs where it should, with the right creative and link.

• Use one sticky session per country for a check that spans several screens.
• Use a separate test account for each market, kept in that market, rather than moving your main account around.
• Remember that what Snapchat shows also follows the account's region and history, so an IP alone may not change everything.

For the US, the network has 61.2M+ residential and 550K+ mobile IPs across all 50 states, on carrier networks such as Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile: US proxies. For the UK, 16.6M+ residential and 140K+ mobile IPs on EE, O2, Three and Vodafone: UK proxies.