New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

Same here 16 Pro OS 18 Come on Apple $2000 phone . You can and should do better.

Same here iPhone 16 pro max, stickers disappear immediately after making them

Well, I can confirm that 18.0.1 doesn’t fix the issue.

Stickers worked great on my 12 pro (iOS 18), and when I upgraded to the 16 PM I lost this functionality.

Saved stickers didn’t transfer from previous phone, and when trying to add new ones it animates the sticker being added to the collection but promptly disappears.

Iphone 15 Pro Max here. As soon as I upgraded to this phone, and activated it December of 23 my stickers have been doing this. Apple support could not assist, and had me reset all settings with that not just giving me more to fix. Dont think its something we can fix on our end, just have to wait on Apple. I also have alot of devices, including family devices on my Apple ID, and I am wondering if that may have something to do with it like maybe settings from another device or something. Frustrating for this ridiculously expensive phone.

Same on iPhone 16

Same issue on a 15 Pro to 16 Pro upgrade. I read elsewhere that it seems to be a buggy pre-release version of iOS 18 that shipped with the first batches of iPhone 16s. Indeed, I did receive a prompt a couple days after getting my new phone to 'upgrade' to iOS 18 despite settings already showing I was using iOS 18. So, seems likely it did have some sort of pre-release version installed on delivery.

Apple Support suggested I do a full restore from iCloud. I told them 'no way' for a couple of stickers. I've got 400GB of data on there and an iCloud restore would take hours. I suspect we'll just have to wait for a bug fix.

Same. iPhone 16 pro

Yeap Same here - iOS 18 on iPhone 16 Pro it is NOT working and on iPhone 12 Pro (also iOS 18) it is working.

-> the iPhone 16 Pro has been set up directly from the iPhone 12 Pro via direct transfer. Having currently 2 phones.

Same. Brand new 16 Pro.

The work around is too much having to go thru the setup process again then setting up face id, activating my bank cards in apple pay, my banking app having to ask for username and password coz faceid is reset. Nah.

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.