I want to stop seeing the Ghost Emoji—even forever and it won’t go away!!

With a new Apple update the ghost emojis showed up. I didn’t have my glasses on and I must have accidentally hit one and now I have two constantly in my feed. I don’t want to look at them and now they will not go away no matter how many times I try to replace them they pop up like I’ve been infected with a bug in my computer. I want them gone or else I have to turn off the entire emojis keyboard. All other emojis disappear after you don’t use them for a while and I hate the ghost emojis so much. I’ve tried everything! What can I do? Apple you have so much class up until this happened. It is a real infection.

iPad Pro

Posted on Aug 15, 2025 07:22 AM

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Aug 15, 2025 09:02 AM in response to CivicDutyToo

What do you mean by in your feed? What feed? What app? You can't remove emoji. And you can't remove recent emojis from that category manually.


Did you accidentally make the emoji a sticker? If so, try going to Messages and starting a conversation. Tap the "+" button to the left of the text entry bubble. Select "Stickers." Tap and hold on the one you want to delete. A menu will pop up. Depending on which section your in, it will be either "Remove" or "Delete."

I want to stop seeing the Ghost Emoji—even forever and it won’t go away!!

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