How to send stickers in Messages on iPhone

Express yourself by adding stickers that match your personality and mood to your text messages. It all starts with the Add button in a conversation.

You can send Live Stickers you or a friend made, emoji, and Memoji, and even place stickers on a conversation, then move, resize, or delete them. You can also create Live Stickers and save other people’s Live Stickers.

Here’s how to send stickers in Messages on iPhone.

Send a sticker in a message

1. Open the Messages app on your iPhone.
2. In a conversation, tap the Add button.
3. Tap Stickers and then tap the icon for any of the following sticker packs:
   • Live Stickers you or a friend made: Tap the Live Stickers button.

     See Create Live Stickers and Save other people’s Live Stickers, below.

   • Emoji: Tap the Emoji button.
   • Memoji: Tap the Memoji Stickers button, tap a Memoji in the top row to view the stickers in the sticker pack, and then choose a pose or expression.
   • Stickers from other creators: Download a sticker app from the App Store.
4. Add a message (optional), then tap the Send button.

From the emoji keyboard, you can send stickers, too.

Place stickers on a conversation

On message bubbles in conversations, you can add stickers, angle them, or make them different sizes. One sticker can even go on top of another.

1. Open the Messages app on your iPhone.
2. In a conversation, tap the Add button.
3. Tap Stickers. Then tap an icon—such as the Live Stickers button, the Emoji button, or the Memoji Stickers button—in the top row to browse a sticker pack.
4. Drag a sticker onto a bubble. Do any of the following:
   • Adjust the angle: Rotate a second finger around the finger dragging the sticker.
   • Adjust the size: Move a second finger closer to or away from the finger dragging the sticker.

As soon as you place a sticker on a message, your recipients see it.

To find out who sent a sticker in a conversation, touch and hold the sticker, then tap Sticker Details.

Quick tip: Adding stickers to messages is quick: Touch and hold a message, tap Attach Sticker, and then choose a sticker for a corner of that message bubble.

Move, resize, or delete stickers

Once a sticker is on top of message bubbles in conversations, you can still change it.

Do any of the following:

• Move or resize a sticker: Touch and hold the sticker, then make any changes.
• Delete a sticker: Touch and hold the message bubble, tap Sticker Details, swipe left on the sticker you want to delete (on your iPhone only), then tap the Delete button.
• See any text covered by a sticker: Double-tap the message bubble.

Note: To see these updates to stickers, you and your recipients need iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, macOS 14.1, visionOS 1, watchOS 10.2, or later.

Create Live Stickers

By lifting subjects from photos and adding effects that help bring them to life, you can create your own Live Stickers to use in messages.

1. Open the Messages app on your iPhone.
2. In a conversation, tap the Add button. Then tap Stickers.
3. Tap the Live Stickers button and then tap the Add button.
4. Tap a photo and then tap the Add button.

   Tip: To create a Live Sticker that moves, use a Live Photo.

5. To add an effect, tap Add Effect and choose an option (such as Comic or Shiny). Then tap the Done button.

Save other people’s Live Stickers

Like a Live Sticker someone sent you? Save it to reuse later.

1. Open the Messages app on your iPhone.
2. Open a conversation with a sticker you want to save.
3. Touch and hold the sticker. Do one of the following:
   • For a sticker sent in a message: Tap Save to Stickers.
   • For a sticker placed on a message bubble: Tap Sticker Details and then tap Save.