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How to Add the Emoji Keyboard to the iPhone
The use of emoticons is on the rise as more users turn to texting and iMessaging to stay in touch. Emoticons started out as a simple :) to convey emotion, and evolved into more detailed pictures known as emoji.
iPhone users benefit the most from emoji as they have a keyboard that is entirely dedicated to it. With a few easy steps this keyboard can be enabled so that texting conversations between iPhones, iPads and iPods are a little more interesting.
Using the Emoji keyboard is a fun way to liven up a conversation or get a laugh out of a friend.
How to Enable the Emoji Keyboard
Tap Settings.
Tap General.
Scroll down and select Tap Keyboard.
Tap Keyboards.
Then Tap Add New Keyboard.
Scroll Down and Select Emoji.
Once complete the keyboard screen should appear in the list of keyboards.
In addition to the keyboard that the user uses as their default language the emoji keyboard is also added to this list. It is important to note that this same process can be used to add a keyboard of another language to the iPhone. This may be convenient while traveling, or also if a user is fluent in several languages.
How to Use the iPhone Emoji Keyboard
Once the keyboard has been added the only step left is to switch from English to Emoji while in a conversation.
When the Messages application is open the keyboard will display like so.
Notice how the space bar has decreased in size to make room for the International button on the bottom row. To switch to the Emoji keyboard Tap the International button that is highlighted above.
This switches to the Emoji keyboard. This keyboard offers six categories of Emoji, and multiple screens in each category. Tap on an icon in the bottom row to change categories and swipe in the three rows of icons to see more Emoji.
Users can combine emoji to create small characters as shown below.
An example of advanced Emoji use.
To switch back to the standard keyboard, tap on the international symbol again.
Emoji is a fun way to spice up conversation but it does have some limits. When sent between iPods, iPads and iPhones the emoji will always be displayed. But if an iPhone user sends these emoji to android, regular phones, or even some websites, like Facebook, they may not display at all.
Also check out How to connect Facebook with iOS 6 and How to get YouTube back in iOS 6.
Vellimalai
01/02/2013 at 6:22 am
Very thanks for help step
N
01/09/2013 at 11:31 am
thanks a lot!
ann
01/28/2013 at 10:27 pm
Thanks!
Sissi
02/06/2013 at 1:10 pm
Very helpfull, thanks
Carito
02/14/2013 at 11:25 am
Thank you!! Couldn’t figure it out for the life of me. Haha thought I had to get an app or something. Thanks again?
Edprez
02/18/2013 at 4:56 pm
Thank you
Bana
02/20/2013 at 7:03 am
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henry
02/25/2013 at 8:32 am
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Sharon Campbell
02/25/2013 at 1:39 pm
Hey you rock! So much fun Sharon. I am a Grandma techie! A little challenging at times!
Brenda Harper
02/27/2013 at 7:39 pm
How can I make the emoji pictures bigger?
Tristan
08/22/2013 at 2:52 pm
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whyouwannknow?
09/26/2013 at 7:38 pm
Oh man, I shouldn’t have laughed at that as hard as I did.
Hazel
02/28/2013 at 12:09 pm
My iphn doesn’t have that option… is there another way?
Natalie
03/01/2013 at 7:58 pm
My daughter has an IPhone 4 and I have an LG Optimus. She loaded it, but when she sends me a message with an emoticon, it doesn’t show up. Is this function only compatible with IPhones?
Dr loogie
08/22/2013 at 2:56 pm
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jyotsna
03/04/2013 at 8:02 am
Cant find Emoji on the page which opens once u tap on new keyboard
Susan
07/16/2014 at 11:36 am
slide the screen to the left for more Emoji
Amna
03/05/2013 at 12:03 am
Wow that helped a lot !! Really didn’t know that… Thanks a dozen :)
Jyotsna
03/05/2013 at 2:28 am
hey have no emoji in the new keyboard section.Does it have to be downloaded first? HOW?
Sabrina
03/05/2013 at 9:15 am
Why works only some times?Appears on the screen but not on the sent message.
Nicolas Paul Mamula
03/05/2013 at 5:36 pm
🙏 !!!
Briana
03/05/2013 at 6:10 pm
hella Helpful thanks guy
Shahira
03/14/2013 at 8:13 am
Thanks so much, that was SO easy to follow!
Jaima aldrich
03/18/2013 at 12:11 pm
😗Thank you!! How do you get more than what’s standard?
Patricia Oliver
04/09/2013 at 3:39 pm
Thank you for all your help
Subodh
05/09/2013 at 9:49 pm
Thanks buddy was very helpful😄
Mimi
06/11/2013 at 7:03 am
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06/19/2013 at 11:54 pm
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Mackenzie
07/12/2013 at 1:14 pm
Thank you so much!!!👍👌👏
Lulu
07/14/2013 at 11:06 am
Amazing thank you! Nice and easy.
carni611
08/17/2013 at 5:58 am
Thank you so much
jose
08/30/2013 at 8:21 pm
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09/08/2013 at 11:51 am
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Sheryl
09/20/2013 at 4:19 am
thank you I still cant see how to combine the emoji to make a figure person tho’
lilith
12/29/2013 at 3:39 pm
Thank you this helped so much even for ipod
Janet
12/30/2013 at 9:47 pm
Thank you
maddy Shitole
04/09/2014 at 9:33 am
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jimmy
04/16/2014 at 7:23 am
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Hibatullah
04/26/2014 at 10:26 am
Thank you so much! That is helping :)
Adelina Donat
06/10/2014 at 8:02 am
Thank you very much! Easy to follow.
Mrrh1998
06/24/2014 at 3:16 pm
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Jennifer
08/15/2014 at 11:45 am
Like others have mentioned, I don’t have the emoji option as described here. Is there another way to do it?
Stacey
11/14/2014 at 5:40 am
Hi! Thank you so much !! But if you also have the NEW Emoji how do you set those up?
Thank you for your help!
Jada blackmon
02/28/2015 at 1:22 pm
Omg this really helped I was like wow my iPhone doesn’t have emojis but now they do so thanks 😳😁😂
Little Wickey
12/03/2015 at 8:08 pm
Very helpful! I greatly appreciate it
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