Frequently Used Emojis won’t change or update

I’m currently on the Public Beta version of IOS 18.0 on an iPhone 15.

Recently, about one or two days ago, I opened my keyboard to use my emojis as per usual, and noticed they had reset. All of them changed to that random array of emojis that Apple presents as Frequently Used before you’ve used your keyboard at all.

I found this odd, seeing as I didn’t do anything different, but chalked it up to being a bug from the OS that just randomly appeared. I tried using other emojis, and obviously, the Frequently Used remained the same.

I then proceeded to do the following:

  1. After trying, and failing, at getting other emojis in the Frequently Used section, I restarted the iPhone. That didn’t work.
  2. I reset the keyboard dictionary. Again, no results.
  3. I removed the Emoji keyboard entirely. Then restarted my iPhone, and added it back. That still didn’t work.

Can anyone help me on this? Or will I have to wait for the next OS update and hope that magically fixes this?

Answered by notlewinsky in 798892022

I was following this thread from three days ago because I’ve been experiencing the same issues and was waiting on someone to give a solution.

Downloading and updating my iOS to the new iOS 18 Developer Beta helped fix this issue for me so it looks like the devs have fixed the bug that needed fixing.

I hope this helps you guys also!

I’ve noticed that I only have this problem when I have “stickers” enabled. When I turn stickers off, my frequently used emojis start working properly again.

I haven’t found any other solution besides this so far.

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