[VERGE] How to turn your photos into stickers in iOS 17

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Last year, iOS 16 gave us the ability to cut subjects out of our photos.

You can download it now or wait until the full release this fall, but in either case, you’ll find one excellent way to use your photo cutouts: turn them into stickers.

You’re going to thrill and impress all of your friends when you turn a grumpy picture of your cat into a tapback reaction, and everyone will want to know how you did it.

(I followed these steps on an iPhone 13 Mini running the iOS 17 developer beta.)

Just tap the smiley icon where you access emoji and scroll all the way to the left of the Frequently Used panel.

Just tap the sticker you want to use — but be aware that, outside of iMessage, they’ll just appear as PNG images.

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