New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

Yeap Same here - iOS 18 on iPhone 16 Pro it is NOT working and on iPhone 12 Pro (also iOS 18) it is working.

-> the iPhone 16 Pro has been set up directly from the iPhone 12 Pro via direct transfer. Having currently 2 phones.

Stickers disappear and markup tools have similar problems. This looks like a large problem and I still cannot find a fix or any suggestions from Apple regarding this. Maybe the fix might be tied to the release of AI and if and if so, the Apple team really dropped the ball here.

Why the silence?

My wife and I have 2 iPhone 15 pros. It works on one but not the other. Practically duplicate settings on both.

3rd level tech says it is a known issue for ios17 and 18, and we will see a fix in the next update. I just updated to 18.0.1, and still NO STICKERS will save.

It shouldn’t be that difficult :(

Same. Went to the 16 pro from the 12 pro, all my stickers never transferred over and can’t make new ones. Was going the 18.1 update would fix it, but, nope. It did fix my Siri though which wasn’t working. Have had the phone for about a month.

I thought I was going crazy, but now that I see all of y’all dealing with the same thing, I feel the tiniest bit better. When will this get fixed?

iOS 18.1 doesn’t fix it either. Can confirm.

I use 16 PM

i cannot believe the iOS 18.1 update didn’t resolve this.

it’s Apple. They used to be magical…now they “feel” weak

Backup your phone. Factory reset it. Sign in to iCloud and restore using the iCloud backup. Fixed the issue for me. I moved from my 15 Pro to a 16 Pro and I think the problem stemmed from doing the Quick Start option aka when I transferred stuff by setting my old phone next to my new one. But yeah, resetting my phone and restoring from the iCloud backup fixed the problem for me. All my stickers are back.

18.1 does not fix the problem. Just amateur hour here.

Just had the 18.1 update and the stickers still just disappear. This did not happen on my iPhone 12 but it is happening on this new 16 pro max. Come on Apple fix this!

18.1 still not fix the issue

apple dev please have a look

I have similar/same issue updated iPhone 15 pro to iOS18 & lost all my stickers and any new ones disappear a second after they are made. Stickers are there on iPad. Very frustrating I don’t want to have to do a factory reset for this, it seems like the nuclear option. Come on Apple it looks like this problem has been going on for ages for some back on ios17 we pay way too much on our phones for these sort of features not to work! Surely it can’t be that hard to fix!!!

Good to hear. Thanks for sharing.

I guess I don’t love the sticker feature enough to jump through these hoops with logging back into every app, setting up wallet again and waiting for all iCloud indexing to start again.

This happened on my work unit. Set up a new for me 13 using quick transfer from my 11 while both were on 17.7. Then upgraded the 13 to iOS 18 and same issue with stickers no longer there after the upgrade and trying to add stickers they disappear after one second on the screen. I had hoped 18.0.1 would fix it but it didn’t and hopefully it will get fixed in a future update because the idea of having to erase the whole phone and restore everything to resolve it seems so ridiculous to me.