You Can Turn Your Photos Into Animated Stickers With iOS 17

[MacRumors]

The Messages app on the iPhone and iPad has supported stickers for several years now, but Apple in iOS 17 is overhauling the sticker experience to make them more important.

All emoji are now considered stickers and can be used in the Messages app like stickers, with emoji listed right alongside Memoji stickers and sticker packs that you've downloaded from the App Store.

In addition, you can make your own stickers using the remove subject from background tool that Apple added for images in iOS 16.

In any of your images in Photos (or images from Safari or another location), you can long press on the subject of the photo to highlight it and to bring up an options interface.

Choosing the "Add Sticker" option ports the selected subject into the sticker interface. From there, you can add an effect or delete it. Effects include adding a white sticker outline, a "puffy" sticker effect, a glittery effect, and more. Subjects pulled from Live Photos have the option of animating.

Stickers that you have created can be used through the sticker interface in the Messages app, accessible by tapping on the "+" button and then "Stickers." You can insert stickers as single images, or add them to messages and photos, which is how stickers have worked since the feature was introduced.

Article Link: You Can Turn Your Photos Into Animated Stickers With iOS 17

 

[dustin_]

The puffy effect is actually really cool. I can see these being used frequently.

 

[redbeard331]

This is what we’ve all been begging for!

FINALLY, our prayers have been answered!🐬

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Love stickers in iOS 17 already. Oh yeah! 🎸

 

[Brad7]

Love stickers in iOS 17 already. Oh yeah! 🎸

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LOL that’s amazing. They should’ve included those Craig stickers by default!

 

[Amazing Iceman]

Great! I'm getting a cat... 🐈‍⬛

 

[Mr. Awesome]

LOL that’s amazing. They should’ve included those Craig stickers by default!

Should come with the Developer app 😂

 

[jz0309]

well, I'm going to say it: gimmicky

 

[ThomasJL]

So this is what Apple choses to focus on instead of fixing bugs. Thanks a lot, Tim Cook. 🙄

 

[munpip214]

well, I'm going to say it: gimmicky

Right. If this is what they are spending time on with their development and keynote airtime they must be out of ideas.

 

[dustin_]

Those replying that it’s gimmicky, yeah, it absolutely is. But stickers are used widely throughout latin america on whatsapp. they're incredibly popular. stickers might not be for you, but they do have an audience.

 

[jimbobb24]

Finally all emoticons can be stickers….why this took so long is a mystery.

 

[dshelby]

This is the sort of thing, and I believe there are several in the iOS 17 release, that I believe Apple should leave to the development community. This is gimmicky and kind of insulting that they would think a feature like this makes a customer choose their platform.

 

[biracialfamily91]

This might not be a popular with the middle age or older crowd but best believe that the teens and young adults will use the heck out of this feature.

 

[kycophpd]

I’ve already used it to make my wife in her bikini as my default sticker she gets for ANYTHING she send me 🤣

 

[CarAnalogy]

Those replying that it’s gimmicky, yeah, it absolutely is. But stickers are used widely throughout latin america on whatsapp. they're incredibly popular. stickers might not be for you, but they do have an audience.

I can see where you’re coming from. But tell me that presentation wasn’t cringy. “For when the group chat is blowng up.” She couldn’t even say it with a straight face. I guess I’m just getting old but even when I was younger I did not like the Snapchatification of everything.

I’m hoping this didn’t actually take a lot of development time and it was just the byproduct of other stuff they’re working on. Phone and Messages do need huge updates but not one single thing they announced is actually anything they needed. Facetime voicemail was the best part of that segment, everything else was very disappointing to me.

 

[JM]

Ngl: this is actually looking fun and might even make the iMessage app creep shoved down our throats worth it.

 

[svish]

Will be fun to use. Looking forward to trying it out

 

[lbmdk1]

But do we want to?

 

[skir]

You forgot to mention in the title: "for Messages". Not the most popular messaging application in the world, I guess.

 

[doobydoooby]

I wonder if it will be consistent with the Mac, though. Currently, none of the app store stickers on ios are compatible with the Mac messages app

 

[legacyb4]

Love using the iOS "Sticker Drop" app; shame that the developer will see their revenue drop overnight when 17 is released.

 

[AlyMourad]

I wonder if it will be consistent with the Mac, though. Currently, none of the app store stickers on ios are compatible with the Mac messages app

It is. The stickers I created on the iPhone synced with the Mac and was usable on the Mac Messages app

 

[dubiousgif]

How do I disable it from showing like with Memoji? Is there a way?

 

[_Spinn_]

Never been interested in stickers before but these changes make me excited to try them out.