People who search for "turn off Snapchat Spotlight" usually mean one of two things. Some want the Spotlight notifications to stop. Others want the Spotlight tab itself gone, because they open Snapchat to reply to a friend and end up swiping through Spotlight instead. Snapchat lets you do quite a lot about the first. For the second, I couldn't find a setting at all.

I'll split this into what you can control, what you can't, and the workaround I built. That last part is the reason for this disclosure: I'm Ayumu Kitabayashi, the developer of minulo, an iPhone app that can hide Spotlight. I'm biased about that section. The Snapchat facts come from Snapchat Support pages and Apple's iPhone User Guide, checked on 2026-10-23.…