Liven up communication with emoticons. How to enable emoticons on iPhone or any other Apple device

Due to numerous requests from our clients and site visitors, who have only recently become... iPhone owners or iPad, we publish instructions on how to how to add emoji to keyboard their devices to communicate using text messages received new emotions and colors.

Opportunity add emoticons to iPhone keyboard or iPad appeared on the iOS operating system starting with version 5, but few, even those who use iPhone and iPad regularly, know how to activate them.

How to Add Emoji to iOS Keyboard

First, you need to go to the device settings and select “General” there. Then scroll down to the “Keyboard” item and go into it. There, in addition to the input settings, there is special item, in which you can remove or add new keyboards in the operating system - the “Keyboards” item. We go into it, click “Add new” and from the list of all possible keyboards select "Emoji".

After you add new keyboard, it will appear on your iPhone or iPad. You can use it in any application that supports text input. To switch to it, click on the button with the globe, as is done when switching languages.

Note that in some instant messengers or applications for communication in social networks, there are their own sets of emoticons that can be used in communication. By default, they are usually already activated and can be switched in the program interface.

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6 comments to the article "How to add emoticons to the iPhone or iPad keyboard?"

Thanks for the master class. I just recently became the owner of an iPhone, and I have some questions when using the gadget, since before that I had been using an Android device for a couple of years. After reading the article, I successfully set up these funny emoticons on my phone. Now my text will become more colorful and emotionally expressed.

Previously, everyone wrote messages without emoticons and understood each other) Now, personally, I can’t do without emoticons. I encountered a problem adding emoticons to the keyboard on iPhone 5. Search query I immediately posted your article, thank you very much. I did everything, it worked. Now I can communicate as before and not be afraid that my interlocutor will not understand my emotions))

Thank you, otherwise I haven’t fully figured it out yet; after Android it’s a little difficult to rebuild. Smileys are very, very necessary, now you can’t live without them! I have a question, maybe a stupid one, but I’ll ask it - are they all free? And in another phone I had some of the emoticons that were paid, I kept getting confused and inserting them, then when a message popped up that they were paid, I deleted them, I don’t like such confusion.

Hello again, dear readers and guests of the site. Today, iPhone is a very common smartphone that is used by a lot of people. Every day we make calls and also correspond via SMS messages. And emoticons are already quite common in our correspondence. For example, if you don’t put a smile emoticon at the end of the message, then the interlocutor already gets the impression of a serious conversation. So, almost everyone knows the designations of standard emoticons - :) ;) and so on. But typing them is not very convenient, so the iPhone has its own emoticons, even a whole keyboard with emoticons, which you just need to turn on. This is exactly what we will talk about today - how to put emoticons in messages on iPhone.
And so, here it would be more correct to ask the question - how to enable emoticons on an iPhone, since in order to put them in messages, they really need to be enabled in the phone settings. Everything here is simple in principle, practically all you need to do is follow the instructions, which I will describe below.
Of course, by default, emoticons are disabled and need to be enabled in the smartphone settings. They are called Emoji - it includes large number emoticons, both standard and non-standard. The choice is simply huge. These emoticons are used not only on the iPhone, but also on the iPad or iPod touch.
How to enable emoticons on iPhone and iPad iOS 7
Go to “Settings” -> “General” -> “Keyboard” -> “Keyboards” -> “New Keyboards” and select “Emoji” from the list; 1 more keyboard will appear in the list. In order to enable emoticons in messages on an iPhone, you need to press the switch keyboard layout button. Well, to make everything even clearer, look at how to do it step by step in the pictures.

Many users are interested in where the WhatsApp emoticons are located on the iPhone. The reason for this is that when normal installation application without some additional actions, you simply will not see the opportunity to add an emoji when sending messages. Next, we will figure out how to put emoticons in WhatsApp on iPhone 4 and other models running iOS.

And in other materials on our website, you can find useful information, because your face is much more expressive than any emoticon!

Why are there no emoticons?

Feature iOS systems, among other things, there is a fairly strict control of developers over many elements, in contrast to the open platform that Android essentially acts as. Therefore, the functionality of some applications in their iOS version may differ to some extent from a similar application installed on Android. This is why there are no emoji in WhatsApp on iPhone.

But, despite the fact that Whatsapp does not have emoji on the iPhone, you can use those installed in the operating system itself. To do this, you just need to activate another on-screen keyboard.

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How to enable emoji

There are several basic ways to enable this function on your Apple device. Next are instructions on where to find emoticons in WhatsApp on iPhone and how to enable them.

1. Go to the phone settings menu.

2. Select “Basic”.

5. In the list that appears, select the Emoji item.

On the oldest versions operating system, in the last point you need to select not an emoji, but “Japanese Romaji”.

How to use emoticons

Once you have enabled emoji in your keyboard set, you can go to WhatsApp. Open a chat with any contact and start typing a message.

Now, to send an emoticon, you need to click on the globe icon located at the bottom and select an emoji image from a small list.

Apple regularly updates its on-screen keyboards, including this one. Therefore, in order to fully enjoy the functionality and a truly large set of emoticons, regularly update your device and install new versions of the operating system.

Now that you know how to send emoji to WhatsApp via iPhone, you can use them in the same way in other applications, such as Notes.

On our website you can find many other useful information, for example, and much more about this messenger. Regular update– deposit stable operation programs.

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Among the innovations of the iOS 11 operating system will be. In March, the Unicode Consortium added the corresponding icons to the Unicode 10 set. A small trick allows you to use the new emoji on iPhone and iPad right now, without waiting for the release of the new OS.

iOS 11 brings 69 new emoji to iPhone and iPad users. The Unicode Consortium has reserved space for new icons, including several fantasy characters, dinosaurs and gender-neutral emoji.

The list included several creatures at once - vampires, elves, mermaids, genies and zombies; all of them will be presented in women's and men's versions. In addition, there will be emojis of broccoli, pie, fortune cookies, dumplings, sandwich and other food pictograms. The set will also include emojis with rock climbers, yogis, a flying saucer, canned tomatoes in their own juice, steak and brain.

IN at the moment We don't have access to iOS 11, but the emoji that will appear in the new edition of the operating system can be used now. If you want to use the new icons, then this is possible, both in iOS 10 and iOS 9 without jailbreak.

Step 1: Go from iPhone and iPad to the page emojipedia.org/emojipedia/5.0/new/. It contains all 69 new emoji.

Step 2: The list of emoticons is located in the center of the page. Copy them to the clipboard by selecting the icons along with the text and clicking the Copy button.

Step 3: Minimize Safari and open standard application"Notes".

Step 4: Create new entry and paste the content from the clipboard.

Step 5: New emoji will be displayed in the note. Copy any emoji and paste it into iMessage.

The trick only works with iMessage; other messengers do not yet support the new emoji.