Memojis disappeared after iOS 17 upgrade

Still can’t access my personal Avatar Memojis that I created to resemble personal features other than 1 on Messages. I can’t find it on What’s App, wish I hadn’t uploaded IOS 17, I was happy as it was.

Tapped +, tapped Stickers, swiped all the way to the right—the icon farthest right (before the Edit button) is musical instruments.

None of the suggested solutions here work. My custom emojis are nowhere to be found, and I’m tired of the morons at Apple screwing things up every time they do an update.

I got Stickers turned on and have everything available, but all of my personal Memojis did NOT come back. In fact, it's just the animals and the custom "Me"moji and all of its iterations are nowhere to be found. And there is no way to make a new one either. The only option is to do a live recording as an animal, but you can't design a Memoji anymore. So it seems the personalized Memoji have just been discontinued...?

I had a PS. after 🤞 and when something like this…

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I Hope it works. Let me know.🤞

PS. I mentioned in a previous message that I have a lot of keyboards and you have to be in the default, English keyboard or the default of your language like when you set up your iPhone otherwise the icons won’t be there!!!

and if you have to, just use the English keyboard anyway, and just follow the pictures🤔🤨1-5 etc. And see why the glitch is there in a first place and why APPLE is making us figure out the workaround if that’s the case, like I said, I have many keyboards, and as you’re doing the steps 1-5, the keyboard could switch on you during the steps, so somethings, if the steps don’t line up with the pictures or not working, make sure you’re still in the default keyboard, or the English keyboard if you speak a different language “((make sure you use iPhones keyboard of your language do not download somebody else’s keyboard etc.))” you can tell, but it happens without you noticing it😎👍👋

Ok, thanks for the help. But for what it’s worth, I just want to register disappointment for an update making one of the sweetest, most enjoyable extras (personalized memojis) not only harder to find, but kind of a pain - they were a nice surprise, now they are missing and i almost wish i hadn’t ever discovered them. Why make something cool and easy suddenly unfindable and extra work? It’s like they don’t want you to use a thing they once practically begged you to use (and made it super obvious and easy!)

This update just made things more tedious, more work, and therefore less interesting

There are two Memoji apps. The one you're speaking of is video. I was just reading about an update that Apple put out saying that Memoji would have new customization for their body app. I don't see how that can be when the app is not even on the phone.

Thanks to the helpful hints in this User Community, I was able to finally find both my Memojis and my Stickers. HOWEVER, this is so annoying to manually retrieve each one where it can only reside in my Recents! I wish it was readily available with all my Stickers like before the upgrade to 17.1. 🤬🤬

Hi. Same problem. The only icons I see are a plus sign on the left and a microphone on the right. There are no symbols as you described. Under a previous update they were moved from the emojis area to the stickers area. Now they’re neither place. Why does Apple keep screwing with them? It takes quite a while to remake them. Please put them in one place and leave them alone! What do I need to do to get them back, again?

Not only that, but with the facial emojis where you could see facial expressions on them and then use them in your messages and that has disappeared as well. My 🦊 have all disappeared. I’m P.O.ed & that’s putting it mildly.

tapped the + next to text box but no listing for 'stickers'. really annoying. Apple made this change without even saying that would happen... said they were adding emojis NOT taking any away. I won't be updating my other iPhone from ios16!

Disappearing Memojis. I am following what any and all directions are, and even found my Memoji, but it did not come back to stay. It said “Stickers“ would let you use a recently used Memoji, but it didn’t.

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This change is one of the worst in awhile for Apple. Nearly all design these days is centered around reducing clicks. This one increases clicks and buries several often used text features.

Here’s a tip, UI designers. If you are implementing a feature that involves a popup that then needs to be scrolled you’re going in the wrong direction. Too much searching around.

I’m calling upon Apple to revert this change! Or at least give us an option to return to the “classic” arrangement.

With all these people complaining about the same thing, Apple needs to hurry up and come up with a way to either revert back to 16 or to fix what is broken that can be seen by all of these comments. I find my phone very uncomfortable to use now and many of my applications are not working as they should.

My personalized emoji disappeared and is not under the new drop down menu in stickers. It was an animated emoji, not like the ones available from Apple. I called Apple help desk and after 10 minutes of searching the Apple rep was unable to help. She suggested my VPN might have blocked my emoji and said I should try disabling it briefly to see if the emoji reappears. I am hesitant to do that so I’ll probably just try to find the APP that enabled me to create the emoji.

Hi.. thank you for this I’ve finally got my stickers back. Would have been helpful if Apple had mentioned this change and how to retrieve after upgrading to ios17.

And as far as I know they still haven’t corrected the fact that iPad 10.7 2022 isn’t compatible with 1st gen Apple Pencil although they are/were promoting that it is. When I called Apple they said it was a software issue and would be put right (that was a few months back) but do far it hasn’t! Apple losing its grip??? lol