How to update emoji on an Android or iOS phone

Sending text messages without emoji is not the same. These little faces bring your texts to life, and often they even express what we want to say better than our own words. Since their introduction in the 90s, these ideograms have revolutionized the way we express ourselves and here we explain how to update emoji on android or ios phone.

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How to enable emoji in iOS

Activating emoticons on the keyboard of Apple devices is very simple. The first thing you should do is check if your device has the latest iOS update.

Step 1: click icon settings and then General.

Step 2: short Generalgo to option Keyboard and tap the submenu Keyboards.

Step 3: Choose Add a new keyboard to open the list of available keyboards and select emoji. You have now enabled the emoji keyboard to use it when typing.

To use the emoji keyboard, open any app that allows you to type, such as Notes, iMessage, or Facebook. When you fill in the field with text, you will see a popup to the left of the space. Select the bubble and an emoji keyboard will appear. At the bottom of the keyboard, you will see ideograms with different themes. By swiping each topic to the right or left, users will see additional emojis to choose from. The symbol on the left, the clock, shows the most recently used beautiful graphic representations.

Want to use friendlier emojis? Apps like Emoji Free offer animated emoji, emoji templates, and various font templates, while Bitmoji lets you use your own emoji. You can also download a third-party keyboard like SwiftKey that can predict which emoji you’ll use next based on your previous usage.

How to activate emoticons on Android

Android users have several ways to set emoji. The first thing you should do is make sure your phone can read and write emoji. You can verify this by visiting the emoji page.

If most of the icons can be seen, then yes you can, otherwise you won’t be able to see anything but spaces.

For Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, most devices come with emoji add-ons. This allows Android users to use special characters in all phone input fields.

Step 1: to activate them, open your menu settings and touch System > Language & Input.

Step 2: short KeyboardChoose On screen keyboard > gboard (or your default keyboard).

Step 3: go to preferences and activate the option Show emoji toggle key.

Now that emojis are enabled, you will see an emoji to the right of the space when you type. Similar to iOS, Android also offers many emoji options to choose from. Depending on your device, you may also receive different sets of emojis.

If your Android device doesn’t support emojis, you’ll need to find a tool or setting in the Google Play store that will enable them. Third party keyboards like SwiftKey and Fleksy support emoji when typing and sending messages.