Turn Your Pet Photos Into Cute iPhone Emoji in a Few Easy Steps

[ad_1] I like my canine, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. She's brown and white and likes to go on walks and I take each alternative to indicate her to the world. And with the Stay Stickers iPhone function, I can flip pictures of her into emoji and stickers, after which textual content them to everybody I do know.

Apple launched Stay Stickers in iOS 17 as an evolution of the tap-and-lift function from iOS 16, which helps you to minimize out topics from pictures and Stay Images. Now, by saving these cutouts as emoji and stickers of pets, household and mates, you may ship countless cuteness to others.

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Here is the way to remodel your pictures into emoji and stickers to ship in Messages and different apps.

Find out how to make Stay Stickers and emoji from photos 1. Open your Images app.2. Faucet the picture you wish to flip into an emoji or sticker.3. Faucet and maintain the merchandise within the picture you wish to flip into an emoji or sticker till you see the white define.4. Faucet Add Sticker.

Apple/Screenshot by CNET Your iPhone will then add the Stay Sticker to your Stickers drawer and seem in your emoji keyboard. When you faucet the brand new sticker, you may be given the choices to Rearrange, Add Impact or Delete it. Tapping Add Impact will allow you to add an impact to your sticker, like a white define, to make it look much more like a sticker.

Apple/Screenshot by CNET The following time you go into Messages, you should use your new sticker as an emoji by tapping the emoji keyboard within the bottom-left nook of your display screen, tapping the folded-over circle and tapping the emoji you wish to use.

Apple/Screenshot by CNET In keeping with Apple, you should use your new Stay Sticker anyplace you may entry emoji. I attempted to make use of my Stay Stickers on the messaging app Slack, however they would not seem within the app. I additionally could not entry my Stay Stickers in some third-party apps, like TikTok, so that you would possibly run into some points when utilizing your Stay Stickers outdoors of Apple apps and units.

For extra iOS information, here is my overview of iOS 26 , the way to allow name and textual content screening within the OS and all of the new ringtones in your iPhone. You can too try our iOS 26 cheat sheet