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How to use Emojis On macOS
Follow these instructions to use emojis on a Mac. It’s quick, and built in. View this tutorial on YouTube or read on for step-by-step instructions.
These instructions created on macOS 10.12 Sierra, but also apply to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, macOS 10.14 Mojave, macOS 10.15 Catalina and macOS 11 Big Sur.
To use emojis on previousreleases of OS X such as El Capitan, check out the relevant guide. The following instructions are for macOS 10.12 Sierra, released in late 2016.
1. Go to any text field, then press the following keys at the same time:
Use emoji and symbols on Mac Use the Character Viewer to enter emoji, symbols, accented letters, and characters from other languages into your documents. In an app on your Mac, choose Edit Emoji & Symbols, or open the Character Viewer from the Input menu (if you set the option in Keyboard preferences). You can download Emoji Emoticons 1.3 for Mac from our software library for free. This Mac application is an intellectual property of ilia. This Mac download was scanned by our built-in antivirus and was rated as virus free. The most popular versions of Emoji Emoticons for Mac are 1.3 and 1.2. You might think emoji only belong on your phone, and it’s true these post-modern hieroglyphs didn’t really take off until the smartphone revolution. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use them on your computer, especially if you own a Mac. There are all kinds of emoji-specific features baked right into macOS.
- Control ^
- Command ⌘
- Space
Alternatively, this same feature is available under Edit > Emoji & Symbols
2. An emoji insertion palette will appear. Click any emoji to insert it at the location of your cursor.
3. If you want to see more emojis, either scroll up and down the list, or click another category listed at the bottom of the palette.
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4. Tip: If you click-and-hold on some emojis, you get a choice of skin tone. Release on the skin tone of your choice:
Note: Only some emojis are enabled for diverse skin tones. This is mostly the human-looking characters. Families and emojis with more than a single person do not support skin tone modifiers.
Create a palette
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To insert more than one emoji without the picker disappearing each time, you need to turn the picker into a palette.
Drag and drop any of the empty space in the emoji picker interface to create a floating emoji palette. This can be placed anywhere on your screen, and closed by clicking the X close button.
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Copy and Paste
To see a larger version of these emojis, or to copy and paste an emoji, view all emojis in Safari:
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Categories
The order that the emojis are listed in has changed from previous versions of OS X. New categories exist, and this is what they look like.
See this video of using emojis on OS X 10.11.2 Sierra on YouTube.
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