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Apple has unveiled new updates that bring advanced AI and emoji tools to its iPhone and iPad devices. Released on Wednesday, Dec. 11, iOS 18.2 ... with styles such as Animation and Illustration.

Here’s my suggestion: Apple should take the magnification animation it already employs on the text keyboard ... loupe (for moving the insertion point) to scrub through emoji. The only caveat here is ...

Although iOS offers a sizable library of emoji to choose from, there are times when you can't quite find the right character that encapsulates an expression you want to convey. Genmoji solves this ...

Please also consider subscribing to WIRED For decades, choosing an emoji has been constrained to ... It launched with iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1, but Genmoji specifically launched in iOS 18.2 ...

The Messages app in iOS 18.2 now gives you all sorts ... but you won't be subjected to the animation repeating. You can add any emoji or sticker as a tapback in Messages Sometimes words are ...

Siri keeps getting a little smarter with almost every iOS 18 update. The digital helper previously received a new design that ...

In the Tapbacks bubble above the message, scroll to the right to show a handful of emoji to use. If you don't see the right emoji, or you want to use a sticker, tap the gray smiley to the far ...

As is customary at this time of the year, Apple has updated iOS and iPadOS with new emoji. The emoji additions include two new shaking faces, a phoenix, a lime slice, a brown mushroom, and a broken ...