Block Snapchat Spotlight?

[clarkwgriswold]

Hi,

My young son has snapchat on his phone to keep in touch with his friends, but yesterday he asked me how to turn off Spotlight as it's very distracting. Spotlight is a tiktok/reels-like infinite video feed that was added to Snapchat.

There isn't anyway to turn this feature off in the app so I wonder if it's possible to block the spotlight address/domain at my virgin router instead. I've done a bit of digging and found the following:

• It's not possible using the VM router, so I need to use a pihole or use the VM router as only a modem and buy a new router?
• It's not possible in Child/Web safe either, as they don't recognise the URLs suggested in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/sl3xa8/block_snapchat_discover_stories/

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

[Cardiffman282]

I found this:

Step 1: Open Snapchat. Tap the bitmoji icon in the top left corner of your personal page.

Step 2: Tap the gear button to get to the settings menu.

Step 3: Tap “Manage” in the screen of settings.

Step 4: Next, tap the “Privacy” option, find the “Spotlight” option, and turn it  off. 

[clarkwgriswold]

Thanks for the reply, but "Step 3: Tap “Manage” in the screen of settings." doesn't make any sense, can you elaborate please?

[Cardiffman282]

I agree with you (copied and pasted).

This is the closest I can see to what you want to do in the official help Faqs https://help.snapchat.com/hc/en-us/articles/13904198624276-How-do-I-restrict-content-for-my-teen-in-...

[clarkwgriswold]

Yeah that doesn't help either thanks anyway

[clarkwgriswold · Accepted solution]

I fixed it by blocking the domains in this reddit post in pihole running on a raspberry pi

https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/nn62oz/does_anyone_have_a_working_blocklist_for_snapchat/