Message app Stickers not working on iPhone 15

I had to delete all my sticker packs that I downloaded in the App Store go to settings messages iMessage apps and you can delete them from there

Just something for ya'll to try. I deleted 5 sticker apps and now it works fine. They were emoji apps. Maybe an app has a bug? I'm not sure. But my phone was doing the exact same as everyone else's. Hope that helps some of you. Since they're isn't an update on this since September.

For anyone still wondering what to do. One of your sticker apps has a bug. Delete sticker packs one at a time and you’ll see which one is messing it all up. This was the solution for me anyway.

UPDATE - I deleted all the iMessage apps and it did not work and was disgusted I not only lost the ability to make stickers but now lost all the others too. I decided to reset my phone using yesterday's backup so my apps were back and BOOM, Issue resolved. I can make stickers again, all my stickers from my iPhone 12 are showing too!

If you try to use a sticker and watch what pops up for a second, you may be able to tell which sticker pack it is and just delete that one. I remembered which pack I tried to use when it stopped working and do just deleted the one.

So the update hasn’t worked on my new iPhone 15 pro and have appt at Genius Bar (hope they live up to this name:)

and they will wipe my phone and reset to factory settings they said.

They said that when I got the phone and transferred all my info from my previous phone that the “quick set up” I did, that is with the two phones side by side, way might have transferred bugs etc so hence this re set.

So, I will try this and if it doesn’t help I will try and get another phone as this one is new. I think sometimes no matter what one does, it might be that the actual phone is faulty and you need to start again. But, as you know, this won’t happen easily as they love to take your money but not give you much back. Fingers crossed but I’m up for the fight and I don’t give up easily.

Will keep you in the loopy loop! :)

Yes I restored mine to factory set up as a new iPhone no restore but logged into iCloud gave it a bit of time to sync. Checked the stickers were there and working. Then did another reset and restored from backup and all appears to be working now. Not an easy process and depending on how big your backup is it may take sometime. However the stickers appear to be back

So after 17.4 didn’t fix it for me I took it to Apple. They restored the phone to new and it worked. I then restored it from a backup and it still works.

Nope go to settings messages iMessage apps and delete all downloaded sticker packs one or more have a bug

apollo615

Sep 28, 2023 6:55 PM in response to KEFROMNSW

Someone posted an answer that looked like it worked for everyone

sign out of iCloud

turn off iMessage

sign back in iCloud

turn back on iMessage

(I don’t have messages synced to iCloud, maybe try signing in and out of iCloud then turning on and off iMessage) if you do have them synced to iCloud .. see if that works

Go to messages in the settings go to iMessage apps and delete all sticker packs it worked for me

Settings go to messages then iMessage apps and delete all of the sticker packs I had one pack that was causing the issue and it worked

Wanted to give you an update. So far the stickers are still there and I’m not having any issues. I have the iPhone 15 Pro Max, resetting my phone too my last cloud backup resolved the issue. It even loaded my stickers that I had on my old phone that were not there before.

Still happening on iOS 17.5.1 - an iPhone 15 pro updated from iPhone 11.

We put the phone into Developer Mode and logged some errors - apparently the stickers database is corrupt and there's no easy way to reset it, which would just sync it back through iCloud (though perhaps some of the complicated restore procedures earlier in the thread could help):

stickersd error: (11) Fatal error. The database at /private/var/mobile/Library/Stickers/stickers.stickerdb is corrupted. SQLite error code:11, 'database disk image is malformed'

Wondering if anyone knows a way to reset this database.