New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

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.

iPhone 14 Pro,running iOS 18.1 I’ve been running the latest software since release. Stickers disappeared as of today. Power cycle didn’t fix it. Also unable to save stickers from existing text threads.

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.

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.

FIX THIS APPLE!!!!!!!!!

Hehe, reset and lose all my authenticator apps? I’m good. I’ll wait for iOS 18.2 I guess…

My husband and I got the iPhone 16 pro max at the same time. His stickers work, mine do not, even after iOS 18.0.1.

So frustrating.

Toggling the stickers from emoji setting does not work for me.

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?

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.