New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

Glad that worked for you, but (for me) way too much effort and risk to correct what Apple should fix by update.

I reset my iphone. I have the 16 so I erased without erasing eSIM. Took a minute but happy problem is corrected.

Having the same issues with stickers disappearing for quite some time. By reading all of these similar comments, seems Apple doesn’t care. Sad!

Same here IPhone 16 pro, will disappear 😢

Glad that worked for you. I’m not going there. Maybe Apple can do its job and fix a persistent widespread bug instead of forcing users to do that.

Glad that worked for you. I’m not going there. Maybe Apple can do its job and fix a persistent widespread bug instead of forcing users to do that.

what a great short lived feature! Sounds like it’s not a priority. R.I.P Stickers :(

There’s this little issue. Not terrible, just annoying. There are several issues like this which aren’t terrible, but annoying just enough to make me question: what is going on with these updates?

Just installed newest 18 iOS beta update. No stickers. Went to my pics and created one. All of a sudden, my stickers began to populate. Fingers crossed they stay

I understand that 18.2 is supposed to fix it.

Same issue here. Brand new iPhone 16 Pro and the stickers disappear immediately after I make them. Completely unusable. I did not have this issue on my iPhone 13 Pro. I also do not have this issue on my iPad Air.

I continue to wallow in grief when photos from which I could make the most impressive photos seem to go to waste. Each time I attempt to save one of these stellar stickers, I feel the same punch to the gut as it disappears. No update has provided the needed solution. Why, Apple? WHY???

I share your loss. After updating to 18.0.1 getting no joy. Stickers disappear and I really miss this feature on my iPad and am mourning their loss. No cool effects. Wonder why this is happening. 😭😭

I ended up fixing this issue. I had to go into my iCloud files on my phone and delete stickers. Then go into backups and delete my old iPhone 12 backup. Manually backup my new 16 pro max then factory reset and use the newest backup and now I can create stickers now. My guess is it’s something wrong when going from an older phone to these new ones?

I upgraded from a 12 Pro Max to a 16 Pro Max, and my stickers were gone and same issue with disappearing after trying to add new ones. New ios18.1 update did not fix the issue. I just tried the reboot and restore from icloud and everything came back. It’s an annoying fix, but a fix nonetheless, if you do want to use the stickers function.