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Using emoticons in imessages

How/can you place emoticons in messages (not the keyboard type :).

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on May 4, 2013 6:36 PM

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May 7, 2013 6:23 AM in response to rv9rlaph

Hey rv9rlaph,


Welcome to the Apple Support Communities. Enabling an emoji is a simple setup. The following article will guide you through enabling them.


iOS: Understanding emoji

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4976


To enable emoji from the keyboard settings in iOS:

  1. Tap Settings > General > Keyboard
  2. Tap International Keyboards
  3. Tap Add New Keyboard

Locate and tap Emoji


Once emoji is enabled, you can access the emoji keyboard by tapping the globe icon to the right of the space bar:

User uploaded file


Regards,

-Norm G.

Using emoticons in imessages

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