Memojis disappeared after iOS 17 upgrade

Mine didn’t come back.

Nor are there any options to get them and the 🆕 in the App Store are not as nice as they used to be - and the ones on my iPhone look like they should be from the 1980s they’re not nearly as nice as they used to be

I did the more recent iOS Update 17/.1.2 and my keyboards including bitmojies (never had memojies) are back where they belong on the additional keyboards. The others are in stickers and there are only a limited number of those. UGH. Fix what ain't broke! Annoying. (note I had bitmoijis saved as a keyboard prior to the 17.1.1 update. so that's how they came back)

I am going to go back to LG Phoenix 2. Yes its Older but Its easier to handle now. I was an AVID APPLE Supporter, However with this DEBACLE ( if it aint broke DONT FIX IT) I am going to wean my self away from Apple. When my Ph is paid off I am outta here 'kept for my Mac. I have stopped Updates there. I refuse to update to the Next Platform. I am Still using Monterey and and VERY Happy Thank YOU!

I tried to click the + symbol to retrieve my memojis but it just says no recent stickers. Guess all my Memojis are gone forever. Also why did they mess with how my Apple Watch works? I’m getting too old to keep learning new things. All my settings are now different and I can’t even swipe to see how much battery power I have or how to ring my phone when I misplace it! Now it’s asking me if I really want to do things, but the text is so small I can barely read it. Very infuriating!

I just wanna say, i like that Apple provides us a built-in memoji and camera feature, we don’t have to download a separate memoji app like an android user. Every now and then after an upgrade, my custom Memojis are gone. I don’t know why, but I never can find them again, even after trying the various methods that are suggested. Oh well, I always just make new ones. It’s still better to have the built-in feature than to download an extra app!

This was helpful. Thank you. I just tested it and found that the one I just used as a test stored. I guess it will store "frequently used" It was so easy the other way. Thank you for posting a solution.

I’ve tried everything, including going to my stickers and can’t use my Memojis anymore. I clicked on the Memoji app and I found my Avatar, but there’s a record button now and none of the other Memoji choices like heart sign or winking, etc. So it’s useless. It’s not the end of the world, but it would have been nice to keep them and not have them deleted unnecessarily because of a stupid update.

Graham you’re so patient and so nice. Just wanted to say thanks. Your instructions worked perfectly for me, except that my Memojis were gone and I got a baldheaded me that I needed to redo. It’s too bad they don’t have them look more like us like Bitmoji.

Has ANYONE updated to teh new 17.2? If so what happened. Since this Debacle with the Memojis / Emoji's being scattered I have shut down My automatic Update on my ph! I do not trust Apple with the Updates any longer.

Same here! Where did they go? It’s driving me nuts. I’m looking for my avatars not the emojis or Memoji I found those. I created one of me one time and then it gave me all the fun ones. Now they are gone.

For people saying, “Errhmmm… just read the feed people like omg…” Lots of people have I tried what’s being suggested in the feed, obviously.

Anyways, after trying the suggestions, the only thing that actually fixed it was restarting it a few times. Lol

I agree--this is a really clunky way to get to stickers and memojis, and the space they used to occupy is blank except for one random emoji and the make your own button and takes up quite a bit of space before the regular emojis. Really bad update--please restore!

vwmary wrote:

I had to do it over from scratch and I could not make it look anything like me. Hate it. They don’t even have white hair, iI want the old one back. Maybe I can go back and take the update OUT!

Downgrading is not supported.

Everything DuanefromConcord said is correct. The only thing I would add is that you can get rid of the additional options for stickers that are there, so that the first thing you see is Memojis. When you scroll and get the emojis at the very end of the scroll action is the option to edit and then you can turn off all those other options they give you so that when you hit the Smiley the emoji option comes up the second or third across.

I went to iMessage and sent myself a Memoji of me. When I received it it went into my frequently used emoji section. You can only do 8. It’s a bad solution but the only way I found to get some of them.