Emojis are a fun and lighthearted way to add “emotion” to your text messages and emails. Emojis have come a long way. Back in the day, you could only send a smiling face, a sad face, or a winking face using a colon, semicolon, or parentheses. Now, you can send any kind of emoji, not just faces but images of food, objects, landmarks, and more, to liven up your messages.
But how do you add them? While some devices and platforms make it easy to add emojis to your messages, not all do. What was meant to be a fun addition to text messaging has now become a source of frustration.
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How to Add Emojis to Text Messages
Adding emojis to text messages is relatively easy: Open your SMS messaging app and look for the smiley face icon at the bottom of the conversation you’re texting in. Click on it and you’ll see options for emoji, stickers, and GIFs.[絵文字]Click to see a long list of them.
Scroll to the bottom to find the emoji you want or click on the different icons that represent different categories, or you can search for what you’re looking for in the “Search for emoji” box.
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How to add emojis on Android
- open Messaging Apps.
- Tap Text Field A place to type your message.
- Press Smiley Face Icon Tap on the keyboard to open the emoji keyboard.
- Swipe to Categories or Search function Find the emoji.
- Tap Emoji Insert it into your message.
How to add emojis on iPhone
- open Messaging Apps and, conversation.
- Tap Text Input Field.
- Press Emoji button It will appear on your keyboard (looks like a smiley face).
- The emoji keyboard appears. Select or search for an emoji.
- Tap Emoji Add it to the text.
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How to Add Emojis to Emails

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How to Add Emojis to Gmail
- Open Gmail And start composing New email Or reply Existing.
- Click here Smiley Face Icon It’s at the bottom of the email composition box (next to the formatting options).
- A pop-up window of emojis will appear. Emoji What you want to include in the email.
How to Add Emojis on AOL
- Log in AOL Mail.
- Start composing New email.
- Click here Emoji Icons (Often found on the formatting toolbar).
- choose Emoji What you want to include in the email.
How to add emojis to Yahoo! Mail
- Open yahoo mail And start composing New email.
- There Emoji Icons Click in the toolbar at the bottom of the compose window.
- A menu of emojis will appear. Emoji Insert it into the email.
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How to Add Emojis to Subject Lines
Adding emojis to your subject line is not as easy as adding them to your email. First, you need to insert the emoji you want into the body of your email or copy it from an emoji website. Then, highlight the emoji, copy it, and paste it into your subject line. That’s how you can grab attention with an eye-catching subject line for your email.

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Are you using these emojis correctly?
How many emojis are there?
As of September 2023, the Unicode standard contains a total of 3,782 emojis. EmojipediaOn this website you can also find a complete index of all emojis that exist. Here are the main emoji statistics for 2024:
- Over 10 billion emojis are used every day around the world.
- People are 44% more likely to buy a product that is advertised with an emoji.
- The most commonly used emoji for X is a face crying tears of joy.
- 86% of X emoji users are under 24 years old.
- Only 7% of people use the peach emoji as a fruit, while the rest use it in a non-fruit sense.
- According to a survey, the nail polish emoji is thought to be the most misunderstood emoji in 2024.
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Important points about the cart
Adding emojis to your text messages and emails can make your conversations more fun and more personable depending on who you’re talking to. Have fun using emojis.
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