Emoji have taken over the world, so there's a good chance you regularly use (or overuse) emoji on your iPhone's keyboard just like everyone else. But before emoji were popular, there were emoticons, short for "emotion icons" — 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 nearly endless possibilities. Since the last iOS software update to feature new emoji, iOS 16.4 (iOS 16.4.1 if you want to get technical), there are over 3,600 total emoji at... more
