New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

I have the same issues my stickers have all disappeared and I can’t add new ones without them disappearing plus some of my 🤩 have black spots where they’re normally an emoji

Seems many of us have the same issue. Only adding that after switching from an iPhone 13 (stickers worked fine) to an iPhone 16, the stickers did not work regardless of the OS. Initially, my 16 was not upgraded to iOS 18. Tried to make & use stickers before and after the software update. No dice. They just appear for about a second then disappear. Hope this gets fixed soon. Maybe when the Apple AI starts rolling out?

Backup your phone. Factory reset it. Sign in to iCloud and restore using the iCloud backup. Fixed the issue for me. I moved from my 15 Pro to a 16 Pro and I think the problem stemmed from doing the Quick Start option aka when I transferred stuff by setting my old phone next to my new one. But yeah, resetting my phone and restoring from the iCloud backup fixed the problem for me. All my stickers are back.

Well. Did a cloud backup, after which I reset the phone, and restored from same backup.

This and few other minor issues are gone, everything’s working now.

Couple of hours nuisance, mostly because waiting for everything to download.

All I had to do again, was adding cards to Apple Pay. Even watch was like nothing ever happened.

So, just do this.

Good to hear. Thanks for sharing.

I guess I don’t love the sticker feature enough to jump through these hoops with logging back into every app, setting up wallet again and waiting for all iCloud indexing to start again.

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.

Same issue here on iPhone 16 Pro. Since I directly transferred my data from my iPhone 12 mini, I can't add stickers from my photos (they just disappear somehow). I updated to iOS 18.1 today, but it still doesn't fix the problem.

Same !! I keep trying to make a sticker it stays for one second and disappears and will not appear on my keyboard like others . And I have blank emojis spots in my keyboard after using the new Genmoji

Woww what a drag. Were stickers the only thing having that issue ?

Same - 14 pro no problem. Upgraded to the iPhone 16 Pro and when I go to create a sticker 
it appears in the stickers and them within 1-2 seconds disappears.

Me too! iPhone 16 pro

Same issue on my end as well! This should be fixed asap!

Same here: iPhone 15 with iOS 18.0 and stickers disappear as soon as a I create them… unusable as is…

Apple, please show us we pay high price for a good reason, and fix this (and other bugs) …

I have the same problem and I sincerely hope that Apple will fix it as soon as possible. At the price of the Iphon, this is already an imposition!