How to Add and Use Stickers on Discord - GeeksforGeeks (2024)

Discord has risen as a formidable gaming platform, serving as the communication hub for gamers and babblers worldwide. However, its influence extends far beyond the gaming community, as Discord also caters to a diverse user base that relies on text and voice channels for communication. While text and emojis have become pins of online conversations, Discord elevates the experience by offering an array of expressive stickers.

Introduced in late 2020, stickers on Discord include both standard offerings and customizable options, catering to a diverse user base seeking to personalize their chat experience. Moreover, Discord allows users to go a step further by enabling them to upload custom stickers to their servers.

Here, we will look into the world of Discord stickers, both built-in and customized, and uncover how they can improve your communication experience on the platform.

How to Use and Send Discord Stickers

Step 1: Open the Discord App or Web App

To launch the Discord App on your Desktop, locate the Discord icon and give it a click or simple open the Discord Web on your browser.

Step 2: Open a Text Channel and Click on the “Stickers” icon

Select a server open your text channel in which you want to send stickers in messages and click on the “Sticker” icon, it will open you a collection of all default stickers of Discord.

Step 3: Select a Sticker

Once you click on the sticker icon, you’ll see a range of built-in Discord stickers. Among these, simply choose the sticker you’d like to send in the chat, and it will be sent immediately when you click on it.

Step 4: Preview Sticker Sent in a Text Channel

After clicking on the sticker, it will be sent directly to the channel you’ve chosen.

How to Make your own Discord Stickers

Step 1: Open the Discord App or Web App

To launch the Discord App on your Desktop, locate the Discord icon and give it a click.

Step 2: Select a Server and open “Server Settings”

Open the Server in which you want to upload the stickers and go to the server settings of the server by selecting “Server Settings” from the server menu.

Step 3: Select “Stickers” and Click “Upload Stickers”

After coming to the server settings select the “Stickers” tab and click on the Upload Stickers button in order to upload your customized stickers.

Note: If you have no Server boost, then you can only add 5 Custom stickers in Discord.

Step 4: Type “Sticker Name” and Click “Upload”

When you click on the “Upload Sticker” button, a File Uploading section will appear on the screen, prompting you to upload your own sticker. When uploading the sticker file, it’s essential to ensure that it’s in APNG or PNG format and does not exceed 512KB in size, otherwise, it won’t be accepted for upload to the server.

After successfully uploading the sticker file, don’t forget to assign a name to your sticker and then click on the “Upload” button to complete the process and upload it to the server.

Step 5: Review Changes

After successfully uploading your sticker to the server you can confirm it by visiting the sticker section.

Step 6: Use the Sticker in the Text Channel

After your sticker has been successfully uploaded to the server, you can send it to anyone in a chat. To do this, click on the sticker icon and choose your sticker from your server’s sticker collection. Simply click on the sticker, and it will be sent in the chat.

How to Remove Stickers from a Discord Server

Step 1: Open the Discord App or Web App

To launch the Discord App on your Desktop, locate the Discord icon and give it a click.

Step 2: Select a Server and Open Server Settings

First, you have to open the server in which you want to remove the uploaded stickers and go to the server settings of the server by selecting “Server Settings” from the Server menu.

Step 3: Select the Stickers tab and Place the Cursor on the Sticker

After entering the server setting select the “Stickers” tab from the among tabs and place the cursor on the sticker which you want to remove from the server.

Step 4: Click on the Cross icon

To remove a sticker from your server, hover your cursor over the sticker you want to delete, and you will notice a ‘✘’ cross icon. Simply click on the ‘✘’ icon, and the sticker will be removed from your server.

How to Add Stickers in Discord on Mobile

Step 1: Open Discord Mobile App

To launch the Discord mobile app, locate the Discord icon and give it a click.

Step 2: Open your Text Channel and Click the Emoji Icon

Open your Text Channel in which you want you want to make stickers and click on the “Emoji” icon to open the emoji section of the text channel.

Step 3: Click on “Stickers” tab

When you click on the Emoji icon you will observe three tabs Emoji, GIF, and Stickers among all the tabs select Stickers tab as you want to make stickers. It will open the stickers.

Step 4: Select Sticker to Send

After the stickers tab is opened you will observe a collection of stickers you can select any one of them, to send a sticker into the chat just tap on it and it will automatically send it to the chat.

Step 5: Preview Sticker Sent

Now that your sticker has been sent to the chat.

Conclusion

Making stickers in Discord is easy. Just follow the steps mentioned above to create your own. Besides using Discord’s built-in stickers, you can upload custom stickers to your server. To use stickers, open a text channel, click the Stickers icon to see all available stickers, and click on the one you want to send.

To upload a custom sticker to your server on Discord, go to the server settings, select the ‘Stickers’ tab, and click on ‘Upload Sticker’. Name your sticker and click ‘Upload’. To use it, click the sticker icon next to the chat box and choose your sticker from the list.

How to Add and Use Stickers on Discord – FAQs

How do I add stickers to Discord?

To add stickers to Discord, go to server settings, select ‘Stickers‘, click ‘Upload Sticker‘, name it, and upload.

How do you use stickers in Discord about me?

Stickers can’t be used in Discord’s “About Me” section; they are only for messages.

How to download stickers on Discord?

You can’t directly download stickers from Discord. However, you can use stickers in your messages by accessing them from the sticker menu in any chat window if they are available on your server or if you have permissions to use them.