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From cheeky aubergines to friendly smiley faces, emoji now form a staple part of many of our daily messages. But despite there being more than 3,600 emoji available to choose from, there are often ...

Have you ever found yourself scrolling through the emoji keyboard, frustrated that you can't find the perfect little icon to express your exact sentiment? Well, Apple has a solution for you with its ...

Genmoji is a play on two phrases: ‘emoji’ and ‘AI-generated.’ Simply put, in iOS 18.2 you can use Apple Intelligence to create new emoji in an instant. Open the emoji keyboard on your iPhone running ...

It might be tempting to assume that new emoji are flown in by stork, handed down from high atop a mountain or mined in caves below the Silicon Valley giants’ headquarters. The truth is even more ...

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Apple released iOS 18.2 in 2024 and the company introduced its own emoji generator, called Genmoji, to Apple Intelligence-capable iPhones. The Unicode Standard, a universal character encoding standard ...

What if you could show your feelings about a Facebook post not with a generic smiley icon, but with an emoji featuring your very own face? That's what could happen if the social network moves forward ...