For those who might be confused by deggie’s post, you DO in fact go to Settings>General>Keyboard>MEMOJI to turn these things off.
To deggie, the POINT was that 1) nobody who wants these things gone cares what they are called, 2) Clippy was a “feature” that many people also found annoying but was ALWAYS optional, 3) half a dozen pages of pages of complaints indicates it was a problem for long enough to show that this was a poorly thought out feature.
I like unicorns, but I don’t like half my keyboard real estate taken up with an errant swipe. I also don’t like fanbois who can’t possibly conceive why someone with a corporate issued phone would like to have a keyboard with commonly used business appropriate emoticons instead of animals. For those of us who actually do work in technology, it’s frustrating to see poorly thought out features deployed into what’s otherwise a pretty good system.
And finally I don’t like the number of times I’ve seen your handle on this thread. It was amusing for a while but it’s getting really tiresome.
I figured out how to turn this “feature” that I don’t like off after scrolling through several pages of comments. I’m unsubscribing from this thread, so unless you want to contact me directly, I doubt I’ll see the reply that you’ll undoubtedly write.
And BTW, clippy was an animated assistant—not an “icon”. When you read that clippy “became an icon” because of its notoriety, it seems that figure of speech was lost on you. An “icon” is something that stands for something else, e.g. a small picture that represents a file or folder.
