How To Make A Sticker On Snapchat (Step-By-Step 2025 Guide)

If you love adding fun, personal touches to your Snaps, creating your own Snapchat stickers is one of the best ways to do it. Whether you want to turn a selfie into a funny sticker or design something creative from your gallery, Snapchat makes it easy.

In this 2025 guide, you’ll learn how to make, use, delete, and fix Snapchat stickers, including tips for funny and popular styles everyone’s using right now.

Here’s how to create a sticker on Snapchat in just a few steps:

1. Open Snapchat and take a picture using the big circle button.
2. On the right toolbar, tap the scissors icon.
3. Use your finger to outline the part of the photo you want to turn into a sticker.
4. Once selected, you can resize or drag it anywhere on your Snap.
5. Tap the sticker icon → Scissors tab, and you’ll find your new sticker under “My Stickers.”

That’s it, you’ve just created a custom Snapchat sticker that you can reuse anytime.

Want to make stickers from your favorite pictures? Here’s how:

1. Tap the gallery icon on the Snap creation screen.
2. Select a photo from your Camera Roll.
3. Tap the scissors icon again and outline the part you want to save.
4. Hit Done to confirm.

Your new custom sticker will appear under “My Stickers” in the Scissors tab. You can reuse it in any snap or chat later. If you’re still having trouble creating your own stickers, you can also check Snapchat’s official help guide on making custom stickers for additional support.

Once you’ve made your own sticker, you can use it in snaps or messages just like built-in Snapchat stickers.

1. Open a chat or start creating a snap.
2. Tap the sticker icon (looks like a square with a folded corner).
3. Choose from My Stickers, Bitmoji, Snapchat Emojis, or GIFs.
4. Drag the sticker onto your snap or tap it to send in chat.
5. Resize or move it before sending your snap.

You can even combine custom stickers with Snapchat’s location stickers, meme stickers, or auto stickers for a more personal look.

Snapchat automatically saves your custom stickers. To use them again:

1. Tap the sticker icon in Snapchat.
2. Open the Scissors section.
3. Tap any sticker to add it to your Snap or chat.

If you want to save a sticker to your camera roll, take a screenshot and crop it, a quick manual way to keep your favorite designs.

Made a mistake or just want to clean up? Here’s how to delete a sticker:

• Delete From a Snap
  • Tap and hold the sticker you placed.
  • Drag it to the trash icon that appears on the screen.
• Delete From “My Stickers”
  • Tap the sticker icon → Scissors tab.
  • Long-press the sticker you want to remove.
  • Select Delete.
• Delete All or Recently Used Stickers
  • Go to Snapchat Settings.
  • Tap Clear Cache → Clear Stickers.

This will permanently remove the sticker from your Snapchat library.

Snapchat stickers help make your Snaps more expressive and entertaining. There are sticker options, ranging from Bitmojis to trending Snapchat GIFs, among many other stickers, to use in 2025. Some ideas for stickers include: 

Snapchat’s GIPHY library has an endless supply of options. Once you take a Snap, click on the sticker icon and search for:

• Reaction memes featuring Surprised Pikachu or Squidward.
• Cute gifs, featuring animals or aesthetic vibes.
• Dank memes, for absurd humor. 
• Y2K or retro gifs, for nostalgic vibes.

Bitmoji stickers express your emotions and provide insight into your character, while Friendmoji takes it a step further by showing your Bitmoji in a fun pose with one of your friends. Use them in your chats or snaps if you want a quick laugh.

Snapchat regularly releases holiday- and event-themed stickers in the sticker drawer, letting you match your Snaps to occasions like Halloween, Christmas, and other seasonal celebrations.

While they may be simple ideas, what could also be described as classic options, such as the “nobody cares” look, Borat is great, or the 😬 emoji, are an additional way to add humor to your snaps.

When your Snapchat stickers don’t appear, load, or send properly, it’s often just a simple technical hiccup. Here are a few things you can try to help your stickers work again:

• Restart Snapchat: Close the app and reopen it to reset any temporary glitches.
• Update the app: Visit the App Store or Google Play to install any updates to the Snap application.
• Clear the cache: In Snapchat settings, tap “Clear Cache” → “Clear All” to fix sticker issues.
• Check storage: Low storage space may prevent stickers from loading. Free up some memory.
• Log out and back in, or reinstall Snapchat: Logging out and back in may restore any saved data. Reinstalling Snapchat will have the same effect.
• Review any permissions: Snapchat needs permission to access the storage, photos, and camera features.

If the stickers are still not available, it’s likely a temporary Snapchat server issue, which can happen. Just wait a while, and Snapchat should resync the stickers, as it seems to happen automatically.