WhatsApp Sticker Guides
How to Add Stickers to WhatsApp
WhatsApp cannot install sticker packs directly from a website — Android and iOS both require the import to come from an installed app. Open the pack in a sticker app such as Sticko, tap Add to WhatsApp, and confirm the dialog. The pack then appears in WhatsApp under the emoji icon → Stickers → My Stickers.
WhatsApp Sticker Size and Format Requirements
WhatsApp stickers must be exactly 512 × 512 pixels in WebP format. A static sticker must be 100 KB or smaller; an animated sticker must be 500 KB or smaller and run for 10 seconds or less. Every pack needs a 96 × 96 pixel tray icon under 50 KB and must contain between 3 and 30 stickers.
How to Make Your Own WhatsApp Stickers
To make a WhatsApp sticker, cut your subject out of its background, resize the result to exactly 512 × 512 pixels, and export it as a WebP with transparency at 100 KB or less. Group at least 3 stickers into a pack, add a 96 × 96 tray icon, and import the pack through a sticker app.
Animated WhatsApp Stickers: How They Work
Animated WhatsApp stickers are animated WebP files, 512 × 512 pixels, up to 500 KB, running 10 seconds or less with frames of at least 8 ms. They loop while the recipient previews them and stop on the first frame afterwards, so the first frame should be a complete image rather than a blank opening.
WhatsApp Stickers on iPhone
On iPhone, WhatsApp stickers live behind the sticker icon in the row above the keyboard, not inside the emoji panel as on Android. Packs are added from an installed sticker app rather than from Safari, because iOS gives the WhatsApp import handshake to apps only. Added packs appear under My Stickers.
WhatsApp Stickers Not Working: Causes and Fixes
Most WhatsApp sticker problems come from one of three causes: an out-of-date WhatsApp, a sticker tray that has not been rebuilt since the import, or a pack that breaks WhatsApp's format rules. Updating WhatsApp and force-closing it resolves the majority; format problems have to be fixed by the pack's publisher.
How to Choose a WhatsApp Sticker Pack
The sticker packs people keep are the ones that read clearly at chat size and cover reactions they send often. Favour packs of 15–30 stickers with bold, simple artwork, keep two or three animated packs at most, and treat download counts as a popularity signal rather than a quality rating.
WhatsApp Stickers on Web and Desktop
WhatsApp Web and the desktop app can send any sticker pack already on your account, but they cannot install a third-party pack. WhatsApp only accepts pack imports from an installed Android or iOS app, so add the pack on your phone first and it appears on the web client once the two are in sync.
How to Turn a GIF or Video into a WhatsApp Sticker
To turn a GIF into a WhatsApp sticker, crop it square, resize to exactly 512 × 512 pixels, trim it to 10 seconds or less, and export it as an animated WebP of 500 KB or less with frames no shorter than 8 ms. Then add it to a pack of at least three stickers and import that pack through a sticker app.
WhatsApp Sticker Copyright and Licensing
A sticker is an image, so normal copyright applies to it. Sending a sticker privately between friends is low-risk personal use; publishing a pack built from someone else's artwork, characters or photographs is not, because distribution is what copyright actually restricts. Using stickers to promote a business raises the bar again.
WhatsApp Stickers Missing After Changing Phone
Third-party sticker packs are not stored inside a WhatsApp backup — they are provided by the sticker apps installed on the phone. Restoring a backup on a new device therefore brings your chats but not your packs. Reinstall the sticker app and re-add each pack, and the stickers already sent in old chats keep working.
How WhatsApp Sticker Search Works
WhatsApp's sticker search matches the emoji tags a publisher attaches to each sticker file — up to three per sticker — rather than analysing the picture. Searching the sticker panel for an emoji or the feeling it represents surfaces stickers tagged with it, so a well-tagged pack is far easier to find than a better-drawn one that was tagged carelessly.
How to Delete and Reorder WhatsApp Sticker Packs
To remove a WhatsApp sticker pack, open the sticker tray in any chat, find the pack, and use the remove or delete control beside it. Deleting takes the pack out of your tray only — stickers you already sent stay in those chats, and the pack can be re-added at any time from the sticker app that provided it.
Get the Sticko app
WhatsApp only accepts sticker packs from an installed app, so the last step always happens outside the browser. Sticko is free on Android and iPhone, and adds any pack to WhatsApp in a couple of taps.
