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title: Facebook Messenger: Upcoming change to sticker message format by August 30, 2026
slug: facebook-messenger-upcoming-change-to-sticker-message-format-by-august-30-2026
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createdAt: 2026-08-17T12:45:40.378Z
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Due to an upcoming change in the Facebook Messenger Platform API, the way sticker attachments are received in the **Watch Messages** trigger module will be updated.

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**Action required by August 30, 2026.** After this date, scenarios designed to process stickers by filtering for attachments with `type: "image"` will stop receiving them.
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### What's changing?

- Sticker attachments, which may currently be received with `type: "image"`, will be sent exclusively with `type: "sticker"` after the deadline.
- Scenarios that filter specifically for `type` equal to `image` to identify stickers will be affected.
- Regular image attachments are not affected and will continue to be received with `type: "image"`.

### What you need to do

To ensure your scenarios continue to process sticker messages correctly, you must update any affected scenarios before **August 30, 2026**.

1. **Identify Scenarios**: Review your scenarios that use the Facebook Messenger **Watch Messages** trigger.
2. **Update Filters**: If you have a filter that checks for `message.attachments.type` equal to `image` to process stickers, you must modify it. Update the filter to check if `message.attachments.type` is equal to `sticker`. For more robust filtering, you can check for the existence of the `sticker_id` parameter within the attachment's payload.

### Resources

- [Facebook Messenger documentation — Help Center](https://apps.make.com/facebook-messenger)
- [Facebook Messenger Platform Changelog](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/changelog)