iOS 18.2 Emoji Keyboard Not Updating

I have noticed disabling the stickers solves that problem.

You need to go ti Setting > General > Keyboard, and find Stickers at the bottom of the page.

After that restart your phone and it is good as before.

The stickers will not be available but we can live without them as well, until they fix it.

Hi guys,

I found a quick fix for this issue, please follow below steps:

Settings -> General -> Keyboards -> Stickers - off

Follow above path and disable the stickers in emoji section, this magically removes emoji keyboard lag. Do not worry about the custom stickers, as u can still use them normally, but those stickers which u generate dynamically by long pressing on emoji will be gone.

hope this helps have a nice day

thank u all

Same 13promax , wishing there is coming update for this issue

I am already turning it off and still lagging

I am also no longer experiencing a lag.

Is now also fixed for me after 18.2.1 update, thanks Apple!

Aún sigues con el problema varios usuarios estamos iguales me ayudan votando quienes tiene e este error? 😅

So I guess there is still no fix to this and even after the update I am still facing about 3-5 seconds lag in my emojis

Same here, I have iPhone 15 pro max and since the update the emojis lag and in my recently used I have blank spaces as well. Spend ridiculous amounts a month to have an iPhone and only ever seem have problems not exactly something you'd expect for such a 'good' company... put a picture below of the issue I have with blank spaces. Currently no fix and no sign of another update to sort the issue which has been happening for people prior to Christmas. Makes you realise why so many more people have Android phones these days.

Same here!

EXTREMELY annoying!

APPLE, this is NOT okay.

fix it.

Your products are way too expensive to have these kind of issues.

Just found a solution to fix bug, lag, slow whenever you want to go on emojis keyboard which is annoying and im on iphone 16 pro max ios 18.2

Go to Setting > General > Keyboard > Scroll all way down and find emoji stickers and toggle off > then restart your device

the only disadvantage is you wont able to create and use sticker from your ios emoji keyboard when sending messages to someone unless you dont even use stickers at all which is worked perfectly

Yes my emoji keyboard is now super slow at loading. The qwerty keyboard is ok but as soon as I press the emoji button there’s a real delay which wasn’t there before.

In itself it’s not a massive issue but when you use it countless times a day it’s frustrating, especially as it wasn’t like this in previous iOS builds.

Quien Más tiene ese problema? Yo aún lo tengo y persiste a pesar de que ya actualize a iOS 18.2.1 Apple necesitamos que nos apoyes a la mayoría de usuarios por favor 🥹 los emojis tardan en aparecer cuando uso el teclado

Yes I’m having that problem too on

my iPad Air 11 inch. The emoji section

needs; “thinking” time it seems. Very

frustrating.

Iam already turning it off and the issue still exists