Your iPhone Has Hidden Tools to Help You Understand Emoji Better « iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks

Is the emoji you’re using really what you think it is? You can use any emoji that you think fits what you want to say, but it may have been created for another purpose. On the iPhone, you can easily find its purpose by getting the emoji’s actual name in Apple’s operating system.

The iPhone emoji keyboard doesn’t display emoji names, but there are some tools you can use to display them. One trick uses Apple’s Shortcuts app. The app spits out names spelled word by word as you type emojis. Another trick is to use the iPhone’s built-in voice tool to say the name of the emoji.

Why do you need to know emoji names?

Knowing the name of the emoji will help you every time you use it Siri Also dictation I will transcribe the text for you. For iOS 16, say the name of an emoji character to Siri or Dictation and it will convert it to the appropriate emoji format.it works with Post, message, WhatsApp, and other apps where Siri can add or post text. If you don’t know the name of the emoji, Siri and Dictation won’t understand what you’re saying and will just spell out what you said.

Knowing what an emoji is called can also help you choose the right letter, but each emoji can have multiple meanings across generations.

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The easiest way to find emoji names on iPhone

Method 1: Use the Emoji Shortcut Get Name

Apple has pre-made shortcuts for naming emojis, shortcut app. To get[ギャラリー]open the shortcut to the tab,[絵文字に名前を付ける]Find and select your shortcut. You can also jump directly using the following links.

If you prefer to search manually, you can tap the plus (+) button on the Name That Emoji card to add it to your library. You can also tap a card to view shortcut details. This is where you should head if you’re looking for shortcuts using the link above.From the details page, tap the ellipsis (•••) on the card to see the action or[ショートカットを追加]to add it to your library.

next,[ショートカット]Go to tab and test. Tap the new Name That Emoji card to start the task. A box will open for you to enter one or more emojis. Once you’ve added them, click “Done” and the shortcut will return the character’s legal name. Tap “OK” to exit the shortcut.

When you enter multiple emojis, the shortcut splits the written names onto separate lines, so there’s no confusion about which word goes with which emoji.

It’s inconvenient to run Name That Emoji from the Shortcuts app every time you want to know the name of the emoji. Apple says in the Gallery Shortcuts card that you can use “Hey Siri, name that emoji” to run the shortcut, but Siri say emoji namewhich makes no sense if you’re trying to find out what an emoji is called.

Instead, you can add shortcuts to your home screen for easy access. Long press the Name That Emoji card in the Shortcuts library, tap[詳細]Choose. Then tap “Add to Home Screen” and then tap “Add” on the next screen. Then tap the Name That Emoji icon on your home screen or App Library.

An even quicker way to enable shortcuts is to assign them to the Back Tap gesture.[設定]–>[アクセシビリティ]–>[タッチ]Go to[ダブルタップ]or[トリプルタップ]Choose. Find and select the “Name Emoji” shortcut and test it by tapping her on the back of your iPhone a couple of times.

You can also find the Name That Emoji icon using spotlight searchthrough the actual workflow of the home screen icons or shortcuts you create.

Method 2: Use iPhone’s built-in voice tool

Step 1: Enable Speak Selection Tools

Step 2: Enable the Hold to Speak Predictions Tool

You can combine the iPhone’s selection tool with Speak Selection to have the emoji names read aloud, but if you’re typing a message and want to know what emoji names the keyboard suggestions recommend, it’s won out well. No. But there is a way around this problem.

[音声コンテンツ]in the submenu[入力フィードバック]and open[ホールドして音声予測]Turn on the switch. This allows you to press and hold emojis and words in the keyboard suggestions to have them read aloud.

Step 3: Configure other reading settings (optional)

• speak screen: Swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen and iPhone will read the content on the screen. It’s a great companion to Speak Selection so you don’t have to manually select everything if you want to read the entire article. However, it’s not very useful if you just want to know the name of the emoji.
• speech controller: This is only visible if Speak Screen is enabled. When on, displays on-screen controls such as play and pause buttons and speed controls.
• highlight content: When enabled, each word spoken using Speak Selection or Speak Screen is highlighted. It can be configured to highlight words, sentences, or both, and you can choose between underlined highlighting or background color highlighting.
• input feedback: This has nothing to do with Speak Selection or Speak Screen. Instead, you’ll see feedback options as you type. Speak letters and words as you type, or restrict auto-correction and auto-capitalization. However, you can also have iPhone pronounce the name of the emoji suggested by the keyboard, as shown in step 2 above.
• voice: You can assign a specific voice in any language to your iPhone. These voices work with Speak Selection, Speak Screen, and Press and Hold to Speak Prediction. There are over 40 languages, some with different dialects to choose from, such as eight English. English has about 80 different personalities and accents across its dialects.
• Default language: Select the default language for Speak Selection, Speak Screen, and Speak on Hold predictions. By default it is set to the current locale.
• Language detection: When on, ignores the default language when the iPhone recognizes another language selection. Instead, speak using the detected language.
• Speaking rate: Adjust the slider to change how quickly the words are spoken. You can slow it down or speed it up depending on how long it takes your iPhone to hear or understand what you’re saying.
• pronunciation: If you find that you mispronounced a word, you can correct it here so it doesn’t happen again.

Step 4: Make your iPhone speak emoji