iOS quick tips: How to enable and use the Emoji keyboard
Apple's iOS is a powerful mobile operating system, but many of its most productive features are hidden or simply not well known. With this iOS Quick Tip, AppleInsider shows users how to enable and use the built-in emoji keyboard.
What it is: Emoji are a wide-ranging set of text messaging emoticons originally developed by Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank. Turning the emoji keyboard on previously required downloading a third-party app or jailbreaking your device, but Apple now allows anyone to add it with a simple settings change.
How to activate it:
How to use it:
You can switch to emoji entry using the globe icon in the lower-left hand corner of the keyboard. Tapping the globe will cycle between the enabled keyboards, while holding it down will pop up a list to select from.
Enable and use the emoji keyboard
What it is: Emoji are a wide-ranging set of text messaging emoticons originally developed by Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank. Turning the emoji keyboard on previously required downloading a third-party app or jailbreaking your device, but Apple now allows anyone to add it with a simple settings change.
How to activate it:
- Navigate to Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards
- Tap "Add New Keyboard..."
- Select "Emoji" from the list
How to use it:
You can switch to emoji entry using the globe icon in the lower-left hand corner of the keyboard. Tapping the globe will cycle between the enabled keyboards, while holding it down will pop up a list to select from.
Comments
Doesn't anyone in Cupertino have a pair?
10 train emojis, 1 rocket ship .... and not a single f'ing motorcycle.
Doesn't anyone in Cupertino have a pair?
its not up to Apple. As I understand it these are just maps to unicode. Get "motorcycle" assigned to a unicode value first.
http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode
its not up to Apple. As I understand it these are just maps to unicode. Get "motorcycle" assigned to a unicode value first.
http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode
Whoever at Appleinsider Staff decided to share this, I thank you.
I knew there was a legit reason for viewing this site.
Just be aware that if you choose yet another keyboard (to have another language in addition to your first language), you have to be careful when switching back and forth from the Emoji keyboard. A few times I was typing English on the Dutch keyboard without knowing it, and boy, did the auto-correction look completely bonkers!
Yeah this features been here for years, just wonder why if most people use it why apple has not made it a default keyboard itself?
You can have the "voice" speak the emoji too!
There's a bicycle—that's better.
As to whether anyone has a pair in Cupertino: remember, this is Apple. Why would they have a pair? It's Apple; why would they have a pair? Apple—are you getting it now? ????????
I think that if Apple made emojis the default confusion, it might cause some keyboard.
Type Emoji with shortcuts
To use Emoji (ideograms or characters) in messaging.
Go to Settings> General> Keyboard> Keyboards> Add New Keyboard> Emoji.
Go to Settings> General> Keyboard> Add New Shortcut
Emoji Insert a frequently used phrases.
Enter a text shortcut used to convert Emoji.