This guide will show you how to use a hidden iPhone emoticon keyboard to quickly access funny and otherwise hard-to-type emoticons wherever you can text. You don’t need to buy or download a new emoji keyboard to use these options, just turn it on from iPhone settings.
The hidden iPhone emoticon keyboard is not the same as the iPhone emoji keyboard that you can automatically access on most iPhones. Instead of little emoji faces and pictures, the iPhone emoticon keyboard combines punctuation and symbols, giving you interesting ways to spice up your messages.
How to use hidden iPhone emoticon keyboard?
You can use them in any app and it will appear on any iPhone, Android or computer you send the message to. No need to wait for the iOS 9.3 update or Apple to add new emoji in 2016 – they’re already on your iPhone.
Here is how you can use the hidden iPhone emoticon keyboard right now.
The first thing you need to do is on your iPhone. This will take you to your home screen. From here, .
This will take you to the main keyboard settings page on iPhone. Next, a long list of keyboards opens that you can enable.
and then . On the next screen and then.
This adds the hidden iPhone emoticon keyboard to your iPhone for you to access, but you still need to tap in the right place to get to it.
Open an app that lets you write messages. Now it’s bottom left. This can open the emoji keyboard. If it does.
This will bring up the Romanji keyboard. Now tap 123 to get the symbols. Tap the up arrow on the right to Expand to see the emoticon options appearing in the suggestion scroll area and see more emoticon options take over your screen.
Scroll and select the emoticon you want to use by tapping on it. This will attach it to the message so you can send it. Since this uses symbols, you can send messages to anyone even if the emoji options are not turned on.
