New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

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

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.

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

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

Everyone in this thread, please submit a bug report for broken/blank/un-creatable stickers here:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

The more people report this, the more attention it will get and will likely be fixed in an upcoming update.

This is not an isolated issue since we're all experiencing it.

Installed IOS 18.1 today and it still doesn't work. It's a shame!!

Same on iPhone 16

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 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. Brand new 16 Pro.

FYI - 18.1 doesn’t fix the Messages Stickers issue either. Bummer.

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.

FWIW, Apple Support claims to be working on a fix to be released in a future iOS update. When I called them, they said that they are aware of the issue, but they are not committing to any timeline like 18.1.01, 18.2, 18.2.1, etc. Since I have read forum user complaints about this or a similar issue dating back a year and occurring with iOS 17, I am not optimistic.

I am reluctant to proceed with the nuclear option (backup, erase, reset to factory, set up as new, restore from backup). It seems like a lot of effort for a feature that I rarely used and can replicate with third party apps. On the other hand, the fact that it is broken bugs me and I know that I could do this to fix it so, if they don’t fix this soon, I might cave.