Neurotic Stix Help
Here is some questionably helpful information about using Neurotic Stix Pro.
- How to Create Stix
- How to Add Ready-Made Stix
- How to Use Stix in Messages
- How to Share Stix (on Social Media, Email, Etc.)
- How to Edit Stix
- What’s a Sticker Pack?
- Troubleshooting
- Contact
How to Create Stix
You can either create your custom stix from the app, or from within Messages. Either method will add custom stix to your library.
Create Stix From the App
From the Neurotic Stix Pro app, select the “Create Custom Stix” tab and pick your stix style:
Then add your caption:
Create Stix From Messages
From the Messages app, select the Neurotic Stix pro sticker pack and then tap “Create Your Own Stix”.
Select your stix style:
And then add your caption:
How to Add Ready-Made Stix
For lazy folks, I’ve created over 30 “ready-made” stix that you can use without requiring any creativity on your part whatsoever. Just tap on your favorite ready-made stix and they’ll get added to your library… Pretty cool, I guess…
From the app, tap on the “Add Ready-Made Stix” tab:
Or, from within Messages, tap the “Add Ready-Made Stix” button:
Hope you like my creations, which are filled with all of my low-self-esteem love.
How to Use Stix in Messages
The simplest way (maybe???) to use stix is with the sticker pack from the Messages app:
NOTE: The stix you create with the app and the stix you create with the sticker pack are part of the same library and you can use them from either place.
How to Share Stix
You can share the stix in many different ways (beyond just from within Messages). For instance, you can post your creations on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and in an email. Start by tapping the stix from the “My Stix” tab inside the Neurotic Stix Pro app:
You have a few choices for how you can share the stix.
You can use it in Messages, share it as an animated GIF, or share it as a higher-quality-but-not-animated PNG. (Keep in mind when sharing a GIF that some social media sites don’t animate GIFs when you upload them. They’ll still show the image—they just won’t animate.)
If you share the sticker as a PNG or a GIF, the “share sheet” appears.
This screen looks different depending on what apps you have installed, but in general, the first section (1) is the “quick-share panel” and has some quick ways to share the sticker based on your recent activity.
The second section (2) contains other apps you can send this sticker to.
This is where you’ll see your social media apps, email, and a bunch of other things. This is a great way to create a post in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or to create a new email.
This row (2) is configurable so if you don’t see what you want, scroll all the way to the right and configure it manually.
NOTE: The stuff in the second row typically only allows you to create a new thing (like a new comment or post or email), and doesn’t let you reply to a thing. If you want to reply to an existing comment or email, continue reading (about Copy and Save Image)…
The bottom section (3) contains a bunch of other useful actions.
For instance, you can select Copy to copy the stix to the clipboard or use Save Image to get the stix into your photo library.
Copy
Use Copy in order to Paste the sticker as a reply to an existing comment thread on Facebook or Instagram. Tap inside a text field (that accepts images) and a popup menu with Paste appears. (If the menu doesn’t appear, try tapping in the text field a second time.)
Save Image
Use Save Image to save the image to your photo library. Now you can get to the stix just like how you’d access any of your other photos.
How to Edit Stix
If you want to edit any of your existing stix, go to the “My Stix” tab and tap the “Edit” button.
From here you can edit your stix library.
- To rearrange your stix, tap & hold one of them and then drag it around.
- To delete a stix, tap the red X beside a stix.
- To edit the text of an existing stix, tap the stix you want to edit. Once you’ve updated the text, tap the “Update” button to save your changes.
What’s a Sticker Pack?
Need more help on how to use iOS Stickers? Check out this YouTube video from MacRumors. It’s a little out of date, but should still give you the basic idea in under 90 seconds…
Troubleshooting
Messages sticker pack shows a blank screen!
In some cases, just after you update the app from the App Store, the Neurotic Stix Pro sticker pack shows a blank screen in Messages.
This is a bug with Apple’s Messages app and I’ve filed a bug with Apple on this issue (FB7568682). Fortunately, there’s an easy workaround. You have to force close the Messages app.
When you relaunch Messages, the Neurotic Stix Pro sticker pack is happy again and all your precious neurotic stickers are back. This behavior only occurs after an app update and only needs to be corrected one time.
Contact
If you actually want to contact the neurotic developer, use this half-baked form.
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