Frequently Used Emojis won’t change or update

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brizida OP

Created Aug ’24

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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:

After trying, and failing, at getting other emojis in the Frequently Used section, I restarted the iPhone. That didn’t work.
I reset the keyboard dictionary. Again, no results.
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!

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ellemar OP

Jan ’25

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.

Katiedriver OP

Feb ’25

I’m having this issue as well, and I’ve tried everything listed here. I’m fully updated. I’ve even tried to manually reset the frequently used emojis by sending the ones I want. It does reorganize them, but there are 4 that I do not use and have not used in A LONG time that do not change position.

ant0n88 OP

Feb ’25

I had this issue with one emoji that was stuck in the recently used emojis. I have never ever used that emoji. It turns out that it was a recently used sticker that showed up there. Solution was to go into stickers from the emoji-keyboard and then "Open Stickers" And then remove the recently used sticker. Then it was also removed from the recent emojis. Hope this helps someone.

ijkd OP

This is still happening to me on 18.4.1. None of the suggested fixes works..