New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

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?

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.

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.

FWIW, Apple Support claims to be working on a fix to be released in a future iOS update. When I called them, they said that they are aware of the issue, but they are not committing to any timeline like 18.1.01, 18.2, 18.2.1, etc. Since I have read forum user complaints about this or a similar issue dating back a year and occurring with iOS 17, I am not optimistic.

I am reluctant to proceed with the nuclear option (backup, erase, reset to factory, set up as new, restore from backup). It seems like a lot of effort for a feature that I rarely used and can replicate with third party apps. On the other hand, the fact that it is broken bugs me and I know that I could do this to fix it so, if they don’t fix this soon, I might cave.

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?

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.

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 :(

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

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

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

I use 16 PM

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!!!

Well. Did a cloud backup, after which I reset the phone, and restored from same backup.

This and few other minor issues are gone, everything’s working now.

Couple of hours nuisance, mostly because waiting for everything to download.

All I had to do again, was adding cards to Apple Pay. Even watch was like nothing ever happened.

So, just do this.