iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 (review) have a fun feature that can turn your picture, family photo, pet photo, or other pictures into a sticker for use in Messages (iMessage) and other apps installed from the App Store.In this article, we’ll show you how to turn yourself or another object in a photo into a sticker and bring your chats to life on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
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How to turn your static photos into stickers?
1. Make sure the image you want to turn into a sticker is saved in the Apple Photos app or the Files app on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Go to the “Photos” or “Files” application and open this picture.
3. Tap and hold your finger on the main subject of the image, such as your face, people, pet, object, or something else that stands out.
4. When you touch an object and keep your finger on it, you will notice a white line running along the edges of the main object.A menu bar will also appear.Tap on it “Add sticker“.
5. This is how you successfully turned yourself or the main subject of this photo into a sticker.Now it is already saved, but you can further customize it.To do this, touch the menu “Add effect» above the sticker you just created.If you do not see this option, then press and hold the created sticker and then select “Add effect“.
6. Now at the bottom of the sticker window, you can select one of four effects: Circuit (a white outline is added around the image), Comic (photo turns into a painted picture), Volume (the image is given volume) or Shine (when tilting the device, a glitter effect appears on the image).It remains to click “Finish” in the upper right corner of the window.
Important note.You cannot create these stickers on your Mac.
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Turn your live photos into animated stickers
In the same way that you can touch and hold your finger on the main object of a still image and turn it into a still sticker, you can also touch and hold the main object in a Live Photo and then click Add Sticker.This action will turn the object into an animated sticker.
If you like to take live photos or if you have existing samples, you should definitely try this opportunity.We are sure you will enjoy making animated stickers.
Note.Because tapping and holding your finger on Live Photo starts an animation, you may have to try again a few times before you see the Add Sticker option.
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Use your own stickers in the Messages app
Static and animated stickers you create on the same device, such as your iPhone or iPad, sync via iCloud with all your other Apple devices that have the same Apple ID.Here’s how you can then use these stickers in Messages chats.
On iPhone or iPad
1. Open the Messages app and start a new conversation or join an existing chat.
2. Click the plus (+) button next to the text entry field.
3. Select Stickers.
4. Click on the sticker you created in the “Stickers” section, and it will appear directly in the message input field.Now return to the message input window and click the blue arrow button to send the picture as a normal message.
5. In addition to sending the sticker as standard text, you can also use this picture to respond to a specific message.All you have to do is touch and hold a sticker, then drag it onto the message (text bubble, image, video, etc.) you’ve sent or received.This sticker will eventually appear to float above this message.It looks quite interesting and you should definitely try this feature.
On Mac
As we said before, you won’t be able to turn your photos into stickers on your Mac.But then you can use the pictures that you created on your iPhone or iPad, as they are synchronized via iCloud and will appear on your computer.
1. Launch the Messages app and open a chat or start a new one.
2. Click the App Store icon and select Stickers.
3. Go to the “Stickers” section and click on the sticker you need.
4. Now click on the message input field, add a comment there if required, and press the enter/return key to send the sticker to the chat.
5. You can also drag the sticker and place it on top of the text to use it as a reaction to a message.
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How to remove an added custom sticker reaction from a post?
Once you’ve reacted to a message with a custom sticker, you can optionally remove that reaction by following these steps.
1. Touch and hold a message with a custom sticker as a reaction and select the menu “Details about the sticker“.On a Mac, right-click on the reaction sticker and select “Details about the sticker“.
2. Swipe left on the sticker and tap the delete icon.And on a Mac, just press the “×” button.
After that, the sticker will no longer appear as your reaction.
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How to use custom stickers in markup?
In addition to adding shapes, lines, text, and a photo caption using the Markup feature, you can tap the Add Stickers option and place a sticker over the image.
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Using photo stickers in other applications
The stickers you create from your photos aren’t limited to Apple’s Messages app.You can spice up your chats by using these custom stickers in other apps from the App Store such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram and more.
As an example, consider the option with Telegram:
1. Open Telegram and enter the chat.
2. Press the emoji key on your iPhone or iPad keyboard.
3. Select a custom sticker from the recently used items section, or simply tap the sticker icon to open a larger view.
4. After selecting a sticker, click Submit.
Important: Generally, you can use these custom stickers wherever your Apple iOS keyboard button can access your emojis.But some applications may not be optimized for this.For example, you can use these stickers from the recently used emoji section in Instagram chats and when creating stories, but if you tap the stickers icon, nothing will happen.
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Adding extra effects to your own emojis
You can add a different effect to your sticker or change an existing one by following these steps.These changes will also be synced to your other Apple devices via iCloud.
1. Open the Messages app.
2. Tap the plus icon and select Stickers.
3. Tap and hold on the sticker you want to edit and select Add Effect or Edit Effect (if the picture already has an effect).
4. Choose from the options: Circuit (a white outline is added around the image), Comic (photo turns into a painted picture), Volume (the image is given volume) or Shine (when tilting the device, a glitter effect appears on the image).
5. And now just click “Finish”.
Important: adding an effect other than “Original“, will turn your animated stickers (created with Live Photo) into a static, motionless sticker!
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Rearranging or deleting your custom stickers
1. Open the application “Messages“.
2. Touch the plus icon and select “Stickers“.
3. If you touch and hold your finger on the picture, then select “Reorder”, you can drag this sticker from its original location to a new one.
4. And if you choose “Delete”, it will be deleted without confirmation.
Alternatively, you can click the minus sign (–) when in swap mode to remove the sticker.This method is good when you need to quickly get rid of a few stickers.Then you can simply press the minus button for all the selected stickers at once instead of touching and holding each one individually.
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Will iOS 17 stickers display and work on iOS 16?
Unfortunately no.To send and receive stickers, your devices must be updated to iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma.
As an experiment, we sent a sticker from our iPad with iPadOS 17 to an iPhone with iOS 16, but the sticker was never delivered, not even as a regular image!Similarly, using a reaction sticker won’t show up on an iOS 16 device.
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