Emoji have taken over the world, so there's a good chance that you regularly use (or overuse) emoji on your iPhone's keyboard just like everybody else. But before emoji was popular, there were smileys, also known as emoticons, and iOS has a secret emoticon keyboard just waiting for you to unlock. Emoticons may not be the bright, colorful icons we've come to love on smartphones, but they're equally cute expressions with many possibilities and looks that emoji haven't come up with yet. "Shrug" (¯\_(?)_/¯) was possibly the most used typographical symbol in the past until Apple added the... more
How to Unlock the Secret Emoticon Keyboard on Your iPhone
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