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In Messages. CountryBalls is a sticker pack, and a sticker pack has no Home Screen app of its own to open, so there is no icon on the Home Screen to look for. Open any conversation in Messages and look through your stickers and iMessage apps. The pack appears there once it is installed.

In that list it goes by its App Store name, CountryBalls - PL.

Check three things, in this order:

• Is it switched on? Each iMessage app can be switched on or off in a list of your iMessage apps. Apple has moved that list between iOS versions: look for the option to manage or edit your iMessage apps in Messages itself, or in the Messages part of Settings. Make sure CountryBalls - PL is on.
• Restart Messages. Close it completely and open it again. If that changes nothing, restart the device.
• Check the system version. The pack needs iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or later.

If it is still missing after that, write to me.

Open a conversation in Messages, find CountryBalls among your stickers and iMessage apps and tap a sticker. Then send it like any other message. The person on the other end does not need to have the pack installed.

Touch and hold the sticker, drag it out of the pack and onto a message bubble or a photo in the conversation, then let go. It stays where you dropped it.

The stickers have a transparent background, so only the drawing lands on the message, with no background behind it.

Yes. Outside iMessage a sticker is sent as an ordinary image, so the other person gets it as a picture. Placing a sticker on top of a message is an iMessage feature, so do not count on that part looking the same on their side.

Twelve, all of one character: the Poland ball, with a white upper half, a red lower half, a black outline and a shadow under it. It has two big white eyes and nothing else — no arms, no legs, no mouth — so the mood comes from the eyes and the props.

• a thought bubble with “???”
• “#1”
• “Are you serious?”
• the ball in black sunglasses
• the ball in red-and-blue 3D glasses
• “Happy birthday”, with a party hat
• “Like a boss”, with pixel sunglasses and black lettering
• “Like a boss”, with sunglasses and red lettering
• “Love you”, with a heart
• “Make love, don’t fight”
• “Well...”
• “What?”, with the sunglasses slipping

All twelve are static images.

English. The ball is Poland, but the words are English, in blocky pixel-style lettering, red or black. Two stickers have no caption: the ball in black sunglasses and the ball in 3D glasses.

Yes. CountryBalls is free on the App Store and has no advertising. It is a 4.2 MB download.

No to both. The pack contains static image assets and nothing else: no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs and no network connections. The images ship inside the pack, so nothing is fetched when you open it.

Sending is handled by Apple’s Messages, so a sticker needs a connection only in the way every message does. I never see your conversations or the stickers you send. The privacy policy has the full text.

Delete it like any iMessage app. Open the place where you manage your iMessage apps and remove CountryBalls - PL there. Depending on the iOS version, that place is in Messages itself or in the Messages part of Settings. You can also remove the pack from the device in Settings, in the list of installed apps under storage. Apple renames these screens from time to time, so I describe them rather than name them.

The pack keeps no data, so there is nothing else to clean up.