New Stickers Disappear Immediately (iOS 18 Messages App)

I gave in. Restored from backup. Now everything works. If you have the time it’s worth it.

Same Here...and to be honest, this new phone is absolute garbage. I wish I would have saved my money and kept my old one. I've had nothing but issues with it since day one. COMPLETE GARBAGE....

I updated my back up iPhone XR from IOS 16.4.1 to iOS 18 with my no problems which is shocking, I won't install iOS 18 on my iPhone 14 due to last year with IOS 17.2.1. my iPhone 14 had issues connecting to cellular network, which drove me crazy, I will wait for IOS 18.0.1.

Same here! From iPhone 13 Pro to 16 pro. All self made stickers missing, and making new ones have them just disappear in an instant.

all still working well on my iPad.

also, Universal Clipboard and handoff had issues, but seems to work now.

edit: ping my Apple Watch isn’t working either. Can ping my phone via watch tho.

Didn't work for me either. I solved the problem by restoring to the new iphone from a backup i made of the old iphone with Apple Devices on a laptop. Had to re-establish all the security settings for various apps, but other than that worked well.

Yeah, came here because all my custom stickers created from family photos disappeared after I upgraded to 16 Pro. Now I see the problem goes even deeper, new stickers disappear. This wound be where I forward the thread to my friend with the sticker of me after splashing water on my face where it looks like I’m crying; but, can’t even do that.

This is salt in the arterial wound from terrible the software glitches the first week and a half.

P.S., to the inquisitive reader. Yes, I did a full iCloud backup with all boxes checked immediately prior to setting up the new phone as instructed from said backup, on a fast stable home wifi connection. I also use arch, btw

Looks like the key to a successful transfer is to back up old iphone on laptop or pc (or maybe mac) and restore to new iphone from there. Direct transfer and use of iCloud seems to fail. After transfer to new iphone you have to change the name of the device from whatever you backed up from to name of new device and re-verify secure sign in on all apps, but that verification step is required no matter how you transfer.

What is wrong with Apple. I have this problem on my new 16 pro, and the 15 pro I gave my niece!!!!

she and I used to send stickers to each other all the time. Now she wakes her old 12 pro back. It’s not been upgraded 🤷🏻‍♂️

Apple should be able to resolve this in short order..,it’s Apple 🤦🏻‍♂️

I had to reset my iphone... I erased everything except eSIM. Of course, I had to re-enter pins for all my cards that are in my wallet as well. Once done, everything appears to be there... I'm at work, so, I guess it wasn't that bad being without my phone while everything re-installed. :)

Same here I just upgraded to 16 pro and I tried to add the stickers and I was there for one second and my friend has the 12 pro max and she got all of them and I asked her how she did it and I tried but and disappeared.

I’m really sorry 😞 for everybody posting here with this issue. I cannot understand why this is happening or how it has. Decided to investigate this issue.

We have 4 Apple devices in household out of them. Apple iPhone 15 works even with update. iPhone SE and generation 5 iPad ok.

My brand new 2024 iPad which I only got recently isn’t working and has big black spots as well as gets stuck and sticker overlays other smileys before vanishing!!

As well as being bereft and morose with no stickers. I have developed “sticker guilt” that these don’t work for everyone on here as well. 😟🥺

I have an iPhone 15 and recently updated to ios 18.1, i can access my stickers only on imsg but can no longer access them on instagram which made me sad because now I cant make my posts as cute :( please please fixxx😢

I have an IPhone 15 Pro Max and having the same issue with stickers disappearing as soon as I create a new one. The issue started when I downloaded the new update IOS 18.1. I think that is the issue and not the phone itself.

I finally erased my iPhone 16PM, while keeping my eSIM, and restoring from the iCloud backup that I did right beforehand. It fixed the sticker issue just like others have said too. I agree Apple should have already fixed this problem and a tech from an Apple Store confirmed it was an issue they were aware of as well. For me, I was just sick of having the outstanding problem so I decided to use the solution that worked best under my circumstances- I understand it may not be the solution that works best for others.

Same issue here as well. You can submit feedback to Apple regarding this issue here Feedback - iPhone - Apple