iOS updates always bring excitement, given that you’re able to expect valuable new features and tools. The latest version, iOS17, brings something fun. The ability to create custom interactive stickers. While iOS 16 made it possible for users to cut subjects out of photos to create stickers, thelatest version of iOS, which is being compared to Android 14, allows you to do this using Live Photos. Whether of your pet or your favorite dish, these stickers add a new interactive dimension to your messages.
Below, we explore how you can create these stickers from your photos and through the Messages app and share them with your contacts. While the Live Stickers feature is only available to iPhone users, people using top-tier andbudget Android phonescan create similarstickers using apps like WhatsApp.
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How to make Live Stickers through the Messages app
Before you start, check whether you’re running iOS 17 on your iPhone. If you have a previous version, update your device. This way, you can create and share interactive stickers. After you’ve updated to iOS 17, here’s how you can make live stickers through the Messages app on your iPhone:
Adding effects can enhance the look of your Live Stickers. However, it turns off the interactive element of the sticker.
After you create a Live Sticker, you can send it to your contacts. Any Live Stickers you create this way remain within the Stickers app, available for you to use at all times. If you delete a sticker, you lose access to it. If you want to use it in the future, you can create it again.
How to make Live Stickers through the Photos app
Using your iPhone’s Photos app is an alternative to creating Live Stickers on Messages. This is straightforward and allows you to browse your photo library and choose a Live Photo that you’d like to turn into an interactive sticker. Here is what you’ll do:
You can now include the Live Sticker you created in your conversations. If you don’t want to use a sticker anymore, tap and hold it and clickDeleteto remove it from your collection of stickers.
Take your creativity to a new level with iOS 17’s Live Stickers
The ability to create Live Stickers, whether through your iPhone’s Messages app or the Photos app, lets you use your favorite live photos as interactive stickers and share them with your friends and family members for everyone to enjoy.
The best part about Live Stickers is that while you need to run the latest version of iOS to create them, your recipient doesn’t need to run iOS 17 to enjoy the dynamic stickers you create.
