Snapchat is working to make it harder for teenagers to be contacted on the app by people they don’t know, its latest effort to stop the sexual and financial exploitation scam known as sextortion. The company on Tuesday announced a set of new safety features,

Snapchat is introducing new ways for users to personalize their accounts, the company announced on Tuesday. The updates, which are mostly available for Snapchat+ subscribers, allow users to do things like design a personalized house on Snap Map, share super quick Snaps and edit their Bitmoji, among other things.

Snapchat is finally adding some critical new security features that should help enhance safety for teens and general users. Here's what new.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Snapchat has introduced additional features to protect its users from online harm, especially teenagers. Since last November, the social network has been sending teens a warning when they receive a message from someone with whom they have no common friends or contacts.