Memojis disappeared after iOS 17 upgrade

Memojis when texting:

Tap on the “+” next to the text box.

Tap on “Stickers”

Tap on the small icon of the people (5th from the left)

Select your Memoji and you should find them all!

Great, short, simple YouTube video shows the answers to all the questions I had & that I’ve seen on this thread. Hope it works for those still having trouble: https://youtu.be/TC3tsQuk4Pw?si=SR67pi64JfkxB6jy

These are not memoji's they are just emoji's. Plus bar does not show the little memojis that i made to look like me, only the animals that will talk like me if i want them to. Very irritating that they removed this, that was one of my favorite ways to quick reply. Is there a way to add those to the stickers location, it's very strange why they did this.

Apple knows this happened to all of us. Yet they did nothing to remedy it immediately. Someone actually got paid to take out everyone’s Memojis without a quick fix.

Apple still has not responded as to why they did this.

you have to add the emojis back in one by one. Someone got a big kick out of this.

How about you just add to it instead of deleting stuff. Listen to the customers, we buy your product because we like it. So if we don’t like prob not gonna buy it in the future-just saying. And rude to say you can’t please everyone, you don’t have to be a grinch.

If you go to Settings>Messages>iMessage Apps, you’ll note that Apple canceled all of its iMessage mini-apps except for App Store, Developer, Hands, Smilies and What Is It. It could have been a costcutting measure or an effort to encourage third-party developers.

I particularly miss the Apple Pay, mini-app and the audio recording mini-app.

FA_in_NYC wrote:

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!

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

All the old iMessage mini-apps are back with today’s iOS 17.0.1 update. There must’ve been a coding problem or something in the iOS 17 update. They can also be arranged in the order you wish. And iOS 17 user manual is available in PDF or on Web. Here’s the section on iMessage apps - Use iMessage apps in Messages on iPhone - Apple Support

I went to the plus (+) next to text field and pressed stickers and it’s empty. It says recently used stickers will pop up here. If I use the stickers that I personally downloaded from the App Store, then they’ll appear there. But I already had previously created my Memoji, so there should already be Memoji stickers created and saved. I can’t find those anywhere.

So I found them through the stickers in the iMessages, but how do I access them in other apps such as Telegram. They use to be at the far left of the emoji slider from the keyboard (see purple arrow in photo attached) but now they are gone.

lol. 😂

OK. last time.. with photos.. 👍

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tap on the plus to the left

tap on “Stickers”

tap on the “people” icon (the 5th from the left)

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… and you should see your Memoji group.

Yeah, I’m done with this.

RHANKK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU CincyFanVA!!! Just finally/thankfully ran across your post and was so relieved that THIS “solution” actually worked! I went through everything myself five times (minimum) but I was too frantic by then to investigate stickers in depth 🙃. And then tried all the things that were suggested in the various posts, but nothing worked until I saw your post.✨ I don’t know why I’m so attached to these particular Memojis, but I am, and I am very grateful to have them back! SRSLY, profound thanks❣️🙏

An angel (in my opinion) showed where to find the old Memojis a few days ago … yes! They’re still there! Tap on the + button next to the text box, on the left, select STICKERS and choose your old Memojis from the menu line at the top. I was SO happy to find them!!! I’m oddly attached to those things & they’re much better than any others I’ve seen. VERY happy to discover their “hiding place”!!

The only Memoji there is the animation version where you record 🤷🏽‍♀️