New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

Same issue. New iPhone 16 with iOS 18. Stickers work fine on iPad with iPad OS 18 but not on the iPhone.

It shouldn’t be that difficult :(

Stickers disappear and markup tools have similar problems. This looks like a large problem and I still cannot find a fix or any suggestions from Apple regarding this. Maybe the fix might be tied to the release of AI and if and if so, the Apple team really dropped the ball here.

Why the silence?

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.

I have similar/same issue updated iPhone 15 pro to iOS18 & lost all my stickers and any new ones disappear a second after they are made. Stickers are there on iPad. Very frustrating I don’t want to have to do a factory reset for this, it seems like the nuclear option. Come on Apple it looks like this problem has been going on for ages for some back on ios17 we pay way too much on our phones for these sort of features not to work! Surely it can’t be that hard to fix!!!

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.

My wife and I have 2 iPhone 15 pros. It works on one but not the other. Practically duplicate settings on both.

3rd level tech says it is a known issue for ios17 and 18, and we will see a fix in the next update. I just updated to 18.0.1, and still NO STICKERS will save.

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.

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.

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) …

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?