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How to Search for a Specific Sticker in Telegram

Tap each step to follow along in order.

  1. Open the sticker panel in a chat

    Tap the sticker/emoji icon next to the message input field to open your sticker panel.

  2. Tap the search icon

    Look for a magnifying-glass icon at the top of the sticker panel and tap it.

  3. Type the feeling or situation you want

    Enter a word like "thanks," "congrats," or "sad" to describe the emotion or moment you want to express.

  4. Pick a result and send it

    Choose the sticker from your own collection that best matches the search results and send it.

  5. Why bother?

    Once you own dozens of sticker packs, scrolling to find one specific sticker gets slow -- searching by keyword finds it in seconds.

Search only covers stickers you already own

Search results are pulled only from sticker packs you have already added to your own collection, not the entire sticker store -- you need to have added a pack first for its stickers to show up in search.

Keyword tagging depends on the sticker pack creator

Whether a sticker turns up for a given keyword depends on the tags its pack's creator assigned when publishing it, so a sticker can fail to appear for an intuitive search term if the creator tagged it differently, or not at all.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this search cover stickers I have not downloaded yet?

No, sticker search only searches through packs you have already added to your own collection, not the full sticker store.

What if my search does not return any results?

Try a broader or more common keyword -- results depend on how each sticker pack was tagged, so a specific search sometimes misses stickers that a simpler word would catch.