New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

FYI - 18.1 doesn’t fix the Messages Stickers issue either. Bummer.

Stickers disappear and markup tools have similar problems. This looks like a large problem and I still cannot find a fix or any suggestions from Apple regarding this. Maybe the fix might be tied to the release of AI and if and if so, the Apple team really dropped the ball here.

Why the silence?

Same. Went to the 16 pro from the 12 pro, all my stickers never transferred over and can’t make new ones. Was going the 18.1 update would fix it, but, nope. It did fix my Siri though which wasn’t working. Have had the phone for about a month.

It shouldn’t be that difficult :(

My wife and I have 2 iPhone 15 pros. It works on one but not the other. Practically duplicate settings on both.

3rd level tech says it is a known issue for ios17 and 18, and we will see a fix in the next update. I just updated to 18.0.1, and still NO STICKERS will save.

18.1 does not fix the problem. Just amateur hour here.

Just had the 18.1 update and the stickers still just disappear. This did not happen on my iPhone 12 but it is happening on this new 16 pro max. Come on Apple fix this!

iOS 18.1 doesn’t fix it either. Can confirm.

I use 16 PM

18.1 still not fix the issue

apple dev please have a look

i cannot believe the iOS 18.1 update didn’t resolve this.

it’s Apple. They used to be magical…now they “feel” weak

I have similar/same issue updated iPhone 15 pro to iOS18 & lost all my stickers and any new ones disappear a second after they are made. Stickers are there on iPad. Very frustrating I don’t want to have to do a factory reset for this, it seems like the nuclear option. Come on Apple it looks like this problem has been going on for ages for some back on ios17 we pay way too much on our phones for these sort of features not to work! Surely it can’t be that hard to fix!!!

This happened on my work unit. Set up a new for me 13 using quick transfer from my 11 while both were on 17.7. Then upgraded the 13 to iOS 18 and same issue with stickers no longer there after the upgrade and trying to add stickers they disappear after one second on the screen. I had hoped 18.0.1 would fix it but it didn’t and hopefully it will get fixed in a future update because the idea of having to erase the whole phone and restore everything to resolve it seems so ridiculous to me.

The same thing is happening in my iPhone 16 Pro on the latest iOS 18. None of the stickers saved from my previous iPhone and in my iPad are there, nor can I save new ones.

Not just the iPhone 16, it’s iOS 18 problem because it’s the same failure on my iPad 10. And, all the stickers on my iPhone 15 Pro Max vanished when I got my new iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Same issue. New iPhone 16 with iOS 18. Stickers work fine on iPad with iPad OS 18 but not on the iPhone.