5 ways to add a sticker to MemePouch

Last updated 2026-05-20 · iOS 16+

Most sticker apps have one or two import paths. MemePouch ships five, because the meme you want to save lives in a different place every time — sometimes Photos, sometimes a Safari long-press, sometimes a sticker a friend just sent you in iMessage. This post walks through all five with concrete steps and what gets deduplicated.

1. Photos picker — multi-select up to 30 at a time

Tap Import from Photoson the home screen. The iOS PhotosPicker opens with multi-select on; pick up to 30 images or GIFs in any order. The selection order is preserved when they land in your library (so your "reaction triplet" stays in sequence). Each image goes through SHA-256 dedup — if a byte-identical copy already exists, the duplicate is silently skipped instead of cluttering your grid.

Two sibling buttons next to it handle video and Live Photo sources: Turn a video into a GIF and Turn a Live Photo into a GIF — both lead into the trim + Smart loop pipeline.

2. Paste from Clipboard — one tap from anywhere

Copy an image from any source: long-press in Safari, the share-preview "Copy Photo" in Photos, a screenshot's "Copy" quick action, "Copy Image" from a Discord or Twitter post, the share sheet's "Copy" action. Then tap Paste from Clipboardon MemePouch's home screen. The card validates that the clipboard actually has image content; if not, a friendly empty-state appears instead of a silent failure.

Why this matters: it's the fastest path. No picker, no permissions prompt for an entire Photos library, no app switch. Just two taps total once the image is copied.

3. iOS Share Sheet — from Safari, Twitter, WhatsApp, any app

MemePouch installs a Share Sheet extension. In any app with the standard iOS Share button — Safari, Twitter / X, Instagram, Mail, Files, WhatsApp, Photos, even other sticker apps — tap Share → MemePouch. The extension opens with a tiny progress modal ("Processing 3/12…") so you can watch a batch land, and shows a green checkmark on success.

Video handoff (somewhat unusual):if you share a video instead of an image, MemePouch's share extension can't open the main app directly (Apple deliberately blocks share extensions from launching their host app). Instead, the extension writes the video into the App Group container as a handoff file and uses a responder-chain application.open URL-scheme trick to nudge MemePouch into foreground — landing you straight in the trim view with the video ready. Most apps just throw a "not supported" error here.

4. Drag and drop into the main app

On iPad with Stage Manager or Split View, or on iPhone with the multi-touch drag gesture, drag any image from Files, Safari, Photos, or another app onto the MemePouch home screen. A dashed-blue highlight appears confirming the drop target; release to import.

This is the main-app drop target — different from the iMessage extension drop (next section). Use it when MemePouch is the foreground app and you want to drop something from another open window.

5. Drag-import from iMessage — save stickers your friends sent you

This one's the headline feature: save the sticker a friend sent you in iMessage. iOS's built-in "Save to Stickers" button hangs on third-party stickers (Apple's system sticker daemon drops the XPC connection — see the deep-dive on why), so MemePouch wires up a drop target inside its iMessage extension instead.

The gesture: long-press the sticker your friend sent in the chat, keep your finger held down. With another finger, tap the MemePouch icon in the iMessage app drawer to open it. Drag the sticker into the MemePouch grid and release. The sticker imports, animation intact, ready to send back. Static stickers (PNG/JPEG) and animated GIFs both work — added in 1.8 after early reviewers had trouble with the two-finger gesture on static stickers. Full walkthrough with the alternate single-finger variant.

What MemePouch can't import from

One thing for honesty: MemePouch can't import directly from the iMessage sticker drawer itself (Apple's built-in stickers, Memoji, Animoji, system Live Stickers). Those live behind a private system surface that doesn't expose itself as a drop source or share destination. If you want one of Apple's system stickers in your MemePouch library, the workflow is: take a screenshot, crop it, and import via Path 1 (PhotosPicker) — but at that point you might as well use Apple's system drawer directly.