Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. We’re all used to typing emoji on our smartphones and tablets, ...

If you’re an emoji lover, you probably know that it can be challenging to use emojis on your computer. While there are keyboard combinations and extensions to launch the system’s emoji picker, the ...

Users of chatroom (and time-wasting tool) Slack will be familiar with typing out emoji reactions. To insert a smiley face, for example, you just type :smile:, and your text will be replaced by a ...

Typing emoji on your smartphone is easy. For an onscreen keyboard, changing all the keys to symbols is always just a tap away -- even if you don't do it, you've probably accidentally switched to an ...

Unicode incorporates nearly 150,000 symbols, and our keyboards let us directly enter no more than several dozen—even with Shift and Option. Many of the remaining characters can be found in Character ...

If you've ever wanted an easy way to add an emoji to a message, email, or comment section, here's how to type emoji in nearly any text field from your Mac — no Touch Bar required. Emojis have become a ...

Tired of using words when writing messages on your computer or tablet? There is now a keyboard that lets you type using only emoji. Austin-based company EmojiWorks has unveiled three keyboards ...

Apple introduced a much-requested emoji search feature in iOS 14, meaning iPhone users have been able to search for their favorite emoji for a while now. With the release of iPadOS 14.5, Apple has ...