Add stickers to WhatsApp Messenger

Sending stickers via WhatsApp is a great way to diversify communication, make correspondence more emotional, and sometimes the only effective solution to replace a text message with an equally informative element. In order for all these advantages to be available, it is necessary to provide a choice from a variety of images of the specified type, and in the article we will consider how it is possible to replenish their collection in WhatsApp for Android, iOS and Windows.

The organization of access to the display and sending of existing stickers, as well as the replacement of the list of stickers available for use in different versions of WhatsApp are implemented in different ways, so we will now talk about adding emotional images to your collection from an Android device. , iPhone and Windows PC separately.

Android

There are three approaches you can take to add sticker packs to WhatsApp for Android. Most s combine the methods described below, that is, they use the most convenient way to replenish their own sticker collection, depending on the situation.

Method 1: WhatsApp library

The easiest way to replenish the list of stickers available to use on WhatsApp is to select a set from the catalog and add it to your application.

1. Start Messenger and open any personal or group chat in it.
2. Tap the emoticon button located near the field «Enter text» on the left . Next, click on the leaf-shaped icon with a bent corner on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
3. This will open the sticker submission , displaying all the emo images currently available for use. Touch the "+" in the upper right corner of the area described.
4. Scroll through the list of stickers offered to to your WhatsApp and tap the button "" right in the area with the images you like.
5. Wait a bit for the fileset to complete, after which you can go to the tab "MY STICKERS" and make sure your collection of emotional images is replenished.

Method 2: Google Play Store

The second method to replenish the collection of stickers in WhatsApp for Android involves ing a special application that brings a particular set of images to the messenger from the Google Play Store.

1. 1. Go to the Google Android App Store. When solving the problem we are considering, this can be done in two ways:
      • • Follow steps 1-3 in the previous instructions in this article. Then scroll through the list of image sets offered by the system to the end and click «ADDITIONAL ADHESIVES» .
      • Without opening Messenger, go to the Google Play Store, type in the search field "WAStickerApps" and click on the button "Magnifying glass" . By the way, if you are looking for something specific, please add a word indicating the subject of the desired image set for WhatsApp to your request.
   2. Also, by going through the search results, find the app that contains the right images or just the ones you like.
   3. Install the selected software on your device See also: How to install an application on an Android device from Google Play Store
   4. Run the installed application and add the stickers you offer to the messenger. Depending on how the software interface is organized by its creators, to add new images to your messenger, you may need to click on the item "+" , touch on "" or similar buttons in the area with the preview and the name of the set, then touch «Add to WhatsApp» and confirm the request by tapping "ADD" under it .
   5. Go to WhatsApp, open the chat, open the to send stickers.Click the "+" in the upper right corner of the area with the available images and then go to the tab «My stickers» . Make sure the new image set is available in Messenger.
   6. Finally, you can delete the application that has brought new stickers to your WhatsApp: its function has been completed and for a later use of the emotional images received through the messenger it is not necessary to have it on the device.

See also: Delete apps from an Android device

Method 3: from chat

Another opportunity to replenish your collection of WhatsApp stickers appears immediately when you receive this or that image of this type through the messenger as an incoming message. That is, if the interlocutor sent you a sticker or you saw it between the group chat messages, you can add this object and / or the set that includes it in its entirety to your application, and then transfer the received message to other of the service .

1. Open the chat where the tag image you like is available and tap on it.
2. Other actions are of two variants:
   • If you want to keep a single specific decal in your collection, tap "ADD TO FAVORITES" . This completes the addition of the graphic element to your messenger - it will always be available in the section marked with an asterisk on the sticker submission .
   • When you want to the whole set including the received sticker, click "SHOW MORE" and continue with the next step of this instruction.
3. Depending on the availability of the set of images you are ing in the messaging catalog, you will be presented with one of two screens:
   • "About the stickers « : touch "TO " at the bottom, after which the images will be added to your collection.
   • An application page in the Google Play Store, whose main function is to add a certain set of stickers to WhatsApp. In this case, follow steps 3 to 6 of the previous instructions in this material.

iOS

WhatsApp s for iPhone, just like in the case described above with the messenger running on Android, can use more than one trick or combine the methods described below to replenish their collection of stickers.

Method 1: WhatsApp library

The easiest method to add emotional images to the list of available WhatsApp for iOS is to them from the catalog offered by the information exchange system.

1. Launch the messenger and open any personal or group chat.
2. Click on the icon «Stickers» , made in the form of a leaf with a folded corner and located in the text input field for messages. Then touch the "+" in the upper right corner of the area at the bottom of the screen.
3. Scroll through the displayed list of available image sets, tap the circle with the downward pointing arrow on the right in the area with the images you like.
4. When the of the selected sticker pack is complete, a check mark will appear in the preview area on the right. Swipe down on the displayed on the screen, after which you can immediately go to selecting and sending a particular image from the added set to your messenger now.

Method 2: Apple App Store

As you can see by following the instructions above in this article, the catalogue of sticker packs offered in the WhatsApp program and available to add to your collection does not offer a wide selection. To obtain additional image sets, you can use third-party software that is available in the Apple App Store and is distributed both free of charge and for a fee (subscription).

1. 1. Open the iOS App Store, go to its section "Search" tapping the corresponding icon on the at the bottom of the screen.
   2. When searching the iOS software catalog, enter something similar to «Stickers for WhatsApp» . The results of the problem reveal many tools that allow you to solve the problem expressed in the title of the article, and you can choose any of them: the principle of receiving images for sending via messenger in such programs is practically the same. the first solution on the list displayed by the Store: Best Stickers Memes from developer Legais applications, and then we will demonstrate how to add stickers to WhatsApp for iOS using this program as an example.

      the Best Stickers app from the Apple App Store

   3. Install a tool that suggests image sets of the type in question on your iPhone and open it. See also: How to install the program on iPhone from the Apple App Store
   4. Scrolling through the list of categories in section «Stickers» from the program, find a set of images that suits you and tap on its preview.
   5. On the next screen, tap «Send stickers» and then «Send to WhatsApp» . Confirm the program request to start the messenger. Then touch "Save" and wait a bit for the area showing the content of the sticker set to disappear from the screen.
   6. Open any chat on WhatsApp, click the button to send stickers in the text input area of ​​the message, and make sure your sticker collection has been filled with a new set.
   7. Once the set of emotional images is available in your messenger, the program used to add them can be removed from the iPhone.

See also: How to uninstall an iPhone program

Method 3: from chat

Very often, the desire to receive one or another emotional image arises after it is received from another WhatsApp and shows itself in correspondence. You can add a sticker sent by someone else ed with the courier by following these simple steps.

1. Launch WhatsApp, go to the dialogue or group chat, from where you want to "" the sticker to your messenger.
2. Touch the image on the correspondence and select "Add to Favorites" in the menu that opens.
3. Now you can transfer the saved items to any chat at any time by calling the to send stickers and going to the tab «Favorites» marked with an asterisk icon.

Windows

Regarding the version of the messenger adapted to work on PCs and laptops, WhatsApp for Windows, it should be noted that it does not directly provide the ability to add stickers to the list of available for use. Replenishment of the sticker collection here is done by "pulling" them out of the -formed list with the help of the "main" VatsAp mobile client.

In other words, to add stickers to the desktop version of the data exchange client, please do so in any of the above ways on an Android smartphone or iPhone. Due to the synchronization after the connection is established between the mobile and computer versions of WhatsApp, all the images ed to the first will be available from the messenger launched in the Windows environment.

By combining the techniques considered, any WhatsApp will be able to quickly and efficiently solve the problem of receiving new stickers or more suitable than the existing ones to send to their interlocutors on the messenger.