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Make stickers from your photos on iPad

In the Photos app , you can make stickers from the subjects in your photos and animated stickers from the subjects in your Live Photos. Then use your stickers to decorate messages, photos, notes, and more.

Turn a photo into a sticker

You can turn the main subject of a photo into a sticker.

The Photos app is open to a photo of a person. The person is selected, and the option Add Sticker is available in the menu above.

  1. Open the Photos app on your iPad.

  2. Tap a photo to open it in full screen.

  3. Touch and hold the subject, then release.

  4. Tap Add Sticker.

  5. Tap Add Effect if you want to apply a visual effect such as Outline, Comic, or Puffy.

  6. Tap Done.

Tip: You can use stickers you’ve created to decorate a photo. See Edit photos and videos on iPad.

Turn a Live Photo into an animated sticker

You can turn the moving subject of a Live Photo into an animated sticker.

  1. Open the Photos app on your iPad.

  2. Tap a Live Photo to open it in full screen.

  3. Touch and hold the subject of the Live Photo, slide it up until you see a duplicate image of the subject, then release it.

  4. Tap Add Sticker.

    The animated sticker appears in your stickers menu, which you can access when you use the iPad onscreen keyboard or Markup tools.

    Tap Add Effect to apply a visual effect such as Outline, Comic, or Puffy.

  5. Tap the screen anywhere outside of the stickers menu to close it.

Delete a sticker

  1. Open the Photos app on your iPad.

  2. Open a photo, then tap Edit to see the Markup tools.

  3. Tap the Markup button, then tap the Add button.

  4. Tap Add Sticker, touch and hold the sticker you want to delete, then tap Remove.

Your stickers sync with iCloud so they’re available on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices signed in with the same Apple ID.

See alsoAdd emoji and stickers with the iPad keyboardUse Markup to add text, shapes, signatures, and more to documents on iPadSend stickers in Messages on iPad
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