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What Do Snapchat Planets Mean? The Complete Order Guide (2025)
Snapchat's Friend Solar System is an optional Snapchat+ feature. You are the sun. The eight friends you Snap and chat with most are shown as planets. It is off by default. Snapchat's own help page says you turn it on from the Snapchat+ feature page, and you can turn it off again.
The order follows distance from the sun in our solar system. It measures app activity, not how much you like someone. A friend you text all day on another app and rarely Snap will sit farther out, or not appear.
Planet order
| Planet | Place in your top eight |
|---|---|
| Mercury | 1st, the person you interact with most |
| Venus | 2nd |
| Earth | 3rd |
| Mars | 4th |
| Jupiter | 5th |
| Saturn | 6th |
| Uranus | 7th |
| Neptune | 8th |
A Best Friends badge means you are in each other's top eight. A Friends badge means you are in theirs, but they are not in yours. You cannot open someone else's full solar system. The badge only tells you about your place in it, and only if that person uses the feature.
The list moves as your streaks and chats change. There is no setting to pin a friend on Mercury. If the planets are causing fights, turn the feature off. Snapchat has said the solar system is private and is used by a small slice of subscribers. It is not a public ranking.