New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

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

I fixed this on my IOS18 iPhone this morning! I noticed yesterday that all my stickers were gone, and I was unable to make or create new stickers from my photos. This morning, I turned off a setting In keyboard that said send stickers from emoji keyboard. All of a sudden, all my stickers came back and I was able to save stickers successfully again! Good luck out there!

FWIW, I caved today and took the nuclear route (method 1) … I erased the phone, set up as new, tested stickers (it worked), erased again, restored from iCloud backup. That fixed the issue.

Honestly, it was nowhere near as painful or time-consuming, as I had feared. Most apps logged me in again without any issues. A few financial apps required a separate login, but nothing traumatic.

Also FWIW, the following did not work: Creating an encrypted backup on my Mac, restoring to factory settings, using the Mac, and backing up from the encrypted back up on the Mac. That process was extremely time consuming. It took way over two hours and failed to fix the issue.

At this point, although I was skeptical and fearful, I recommend method one.

My stickers are back as soon as I did today’s update (not mentioning the keyword that deletes the comment). I created a new one as well and it did not disappeared like before. Nice! Just be patient. A couple more updates will do the trick for you.

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!

I’m experiencing the same issue with the iPhone 16 Pro. The iOS 18.1 update didn’t resolve it either.

With 18.1 no change :( still not working

like mentioned before:

migrated from iPhone12pro to 16pro

Same problem with iPhone 14 pro Max. Stickers have disappeared from the keyboard and impossible to add them.

I'm on iOS 18.1 and with every update there's something that doesn't work anymore...

I found them. They don’t live in with the emojis. There’s a little icon next to the text box on WhatsApp ( haven’t tried messaging yet)

the one next to the camera icon. They’re all hiding in there😁. Can’t find them to add to this post though😡 and as above can create for use on other apps. Only seem to work in WhatsApp.

It only works in Whatsapp, it does NOT work in Apple Messages