Emoticons on iOS: Emoji Keyboard

Everyone uses the classic smiley face :-) or winking ;-) but on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad you could be showing your emotions in a lot more detail! These faces look great on the retina display too.

To enable the Emoji keyboard follow these quick and simple instructions below!

1. Go to Settings on your iOS device.
2. Choose General
3. Then Keyboards
4. International Keyboards
5. Add New Keyboard
6. And finally select Emoji

To then access the Emoji keyboard from your email, iMessage, notes apps just select the World icon button on your keyboard, it's in the bottom left of the keyboard above. As you can see the images are not restricted to emotions, you also get a host of random and cool icons to add to your conversations!

Keyboard images screen captured from Apple devices.

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