In a way, emojis have changed the way we communicate, even if it’s to save us words or phrases. A “voucher” or “good” is now replaced with the thumb up, an “I am angry” with the red angry emoji, the “I’m going on a trip” can be replaced by an icon of a plane, car or train attached to the flag of the place. In short, there are many expressions that can be displayed with these elements and although you may think that they are not in macOS, the truth is that they are despite the fact that they are a bit hidden. But don’t worry because in this article we show you how to use emojis on your Mac.
Are they the same emojis as on an iPhone?
Yes, the emojis that you will find on your apple computer are the same that you will find on your phone. And not only that they are all present, but they also have an identical design. Of course, it must be said that if you have an older version of the software, you will only have access to those that existed at that time since new emoji packages are added every year and these only reach the most recent versions. The same thing happens in this case as in iOS, a system that must be updated to its latest available versions to have the implementations made by Apple and the Unicode Consortium in charge of standardizing these characters.
Will they always look the same?
What you should also know is that emojis will not look the same on all devices and not even in all applications. On Android devices there are other emoji designs different from those implemented by Apple on their computers, so on these computers the emojis equivalent to their own design will be seen regardless of whether they were originally in another way. If the emojis are also new and are going to be seen on devices with older Android versions, they may not appear correctly and something like a square with a question mark will be displayed. And as far as applications are concerned, it is also possible to see them in another way if it has its own emoji standard, for example Twitter web, even though it is used through the Safari browser on Mac.
Ways to put emojis on Mac
As in almost everything, there is a long and a short way to access to remove the keyboard of emojis on a Mac. It really is not a keyboard as such but a small window in which to view them. The long way to get to them is to be in any application and go to the top toolbar and follow the Edit> Emojis and Symbols path. Nor is it a very complicated way to reach them, but the truth is that it is much faster to press the Control + Command + Space keys at the same time. In both cases, a box appears on the screen that can be viewed in two ways.
The first one is very similar to the style used in iOS, since the entire list of emojis classified in their corresponding category appears. You can slide between them with the cursor or use the arrow keys, but it is more comfortable the first way. To insert an emoji in a text you just have to click on it, although the moment you do so the window will close. However, you can copy and paste those emojis into the text, so that if you want to repeat the same emoji several times, you don’t have to constantly add it.
The other way to view them is with the character viewer , which will appear if you click on the icon in the upper right part of the window. That way you will not only be able to access the emoji keyboard, but you will also be able to see other special characters such as arrows, bullets, Latin letters, mathematical signs and even pictograms. You can also customize this list, see them larger, see the list with the most used and even perform a search to access the emoji or symbol you want more quickly.