You can finally create your own stickers from your iPhone without having to leave WhatsApp. Until now, you had to drag an image from the gallery or resort to third-party applications. But Meta just announced that You can now do it directly from the iOS app.
“To add a little fun to your chats or bring a joke to life in your group of friends, you can now quickly and creatively convert your own photos into stickers,” they explained from the messaging platform. You can also edit the entire collection that you already have saved on your mobile.
The new WhatsApp function has editing tools that They include text, drawing and even the possibility of superimposing several stickers. In addition, it incorporates the automatic cropping option to make everything easier. Once you send them, they will automatically be saved in your tray so you can use them whenever you want.
It has taken WhatsApp about five years to develop this option, since enabled in 2018 sending stickers. An alternative that very quickly beat traditional emojis and GIFs. During all this time, the platform only provided support to developers who wanted to create their own apps to design stickers. And since 2021, it began testing the function in its web version.
“You can now create your own stickers without having to drag and drop from your image gallery or use unofficial third-party applications,” WhatsApp highlighted. This way, he noted, you will maintain the security of end-to-end encryption.
Step by step to create new WhatsApp stickers from the iPhone
The function to generate new stickers was only available on WhatsApp Web. But from now on it will begin to be deployed on all iPhones with iOS 17. Users of previous versions of Apple’s operating system will be able to edit the stickers they already have saved, but not create new ones. There is no news yet about the implementation of this feature on Android.
Take note of the step by step to create a stickers from an image or photo that you like without leaving WhatsApp for iPhone:
- Open the sticker tray, selecting the icon to the right of the text box to write a message.
- Tap “create sticker” and choose an image or photo from your gallery.
- Cut, draw or add the text you want. As we already explained, you can also overlay other stickers.
That’s all! Once you complete this process, your new stickers will be ready to ship. In case you want edit an existing WhatsApp sticker, the instructions are just as simple. Pay attention:
- Open your sticker tray, selecting the icon to the right of the text box to write a message.
- Press and hold the sticker you want to modify and select “edit sticker.”
- Customize it however you want, with text, other stickers or by drawing on it.
As with WhatsApp stickers created from scratch, edited versions will be automatically saved when you send them and will remain in your collection.
WhatsApp has been experimenting for quite some time with new options to get more juice out of stickers. In mid-2023, for example, the messaging app began testing how to generate them with artificial intelligence. The tool uses a Meta language model to create stickers from a simple text description.
You can write “Laughing cat on a board” skate” and the app will return a fun sticker that matches what you requested. For now, this AI-based tool is available only in a limited list of countries. Additionally, it only supports descriptions in English.