- In an app on your Mac, choose Edit Emoji & Symbols, or press Control-Command-Space to open the Character Viewer. If you previously used the Character Viewer, or set the option in Keyboard preferences to show it in the Input menu, you can also open it from that menu. To open Keyboard preferences, choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Keyboard.
- It turns out that sending emoji from a modern Mac laptop or desktop running an up-to-date version of OS X is easy. Apple should include this shortcut on the front page of its OS X user manual. List of emoji substitutions for Messages in Mac OS X. Ask Question 14. It's not a real shortcut solution, but a workaround when you want to use emojis a lot.
- Mumu helps you pick emoji quickly and get out of your way. It doesn't want to interrupt your flow state. Each license is limited to 1 mac for 1 year. You'll get frequent updates regarding new features and synonym improvements over that period. Bug fixes are free forever.
Apple Emoji is a set of more than 1500 branded emoticons from Apple for iOS and macOS devices, as well as WhatsApp and Snapchat messengers. 🤝 Copy, paste, communicate! But what if you want to put an emoji elsewhere? There’s a keyboard shortcut for that. Mac Emojis Shortcut. To bring up Mac emojis, you can press Control + Command (⌘) + Space.
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How to use Emojis On macOS
Follow these instructions to use emojis on a Mac. It’s quick, and built in. View this tutorial on YouTube or read on for step-by-step instructions.
These instructions created on macOS 10.12 Sierra, but also apply to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, macOS 10.14 Mojave, macOS 10.15 Catalina and macOS 11 Big Sur.
To use emojis on previousreleases of OS X such as El Capitan, check out the relevant guide. The following instructions are for macOS 10.12 Sierra, released in late 2016.
1. Go to any text field, then press the following keys at the same time:
- Control ^
- Command ⌘
- Space
Alternatively, this same feature is available under Edit > Emoji & Symbols
2. An emoji insertion palette will appear. Click any emoji to insert it at the location of your cursor.
3. If you want to see more emojis, either scroll up and down the list, or click another category listed at the bottom of the palette.
4. Tip: If you click-and-hold on some emojis, you get a choice of skin tone. Release on the skin tone of your choice:
Note: Only some emojis are enabled for diverse skin tones. This is mostly the human-looking characters. Families and emojis with more than a single person do not support skin tone modifiers.
Create a palette
To insert more than one emoji without the picker disappearing each time, you need to turn the picker into a palette.
Drag and drop any of the empty space in the emoji picker interface to create a floating emoji palette. This can be placed anywhere on your screen, and closed by clicking the X close button.
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Copy and Paste
To see a larger version of these emojis, or to copy and paste an emoji, view all emojis in Safari:
Categories
The order that the emojis are listed in has changed from previous versions of OS X. New categories exist, and this is what they look like.
See this video of using emojis on OS X 10.11.2 Sierra on YouTube.
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Rich synonyms. Smart suggestions. Lightspeed launching.
It's how the emoji picker should be
The native emoji picker vs Mumu
Rich Synonyms
Keep forgetting what that emoji was called? Mumu has over 3,000 synonyms, so it always finds the right emoji.
🔶 Find using your everyday language
🔶 No need to associate any specific term
🔶 Can't find an emoji? Report easily
🔶 Get the synonyms update frequently
Smart Suggestions
Mumu becomes smarter over time. It learns your favorite emojis and make them easier to reach.
🔶 Reduce your press and scroll routine
🔶 Use one or two strokes and you're done
Lightspeed Launching
Mumu helps you pick emoji quickly and get out of your way. It doesn't want to interrupt your flow state.
🔶 2x faster than native emoji picker
🔶 Keep your focus ongoing
Emoji Keyboard Mac Os X
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Easy Shortcut
Mumu uses a ⇧⌘Space shortcut that's friendly for your hands, especially when you're in the focus of writing. There's also many more inside the app.
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Privacy First
Mumu doesn't send anything to the servers out there, everything is done locally. Mumu only sends your feedback to the founder if any and check your license regularly.
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Emoji For Macos
Human Behind
We made Mumu with heart and excellence. We know that you deserve the best support, continuous app development, and care. We'll show. Not tell!
Daniel Zarick
Building Arrows.to
This is exactly the sort of app I didn't know I needed. It's so damn fast. I'll never use the native emoji picker again.
Guilherme Rizzo
Founder of CSS Scan, CSS Scan Pro, and toast.log
Mumu it's damn fast ⚡and it's becoming better every day. You can always send feedback to keywords that are missing and it will probably be implemented. Try that with Apple.
Flowen
Founder of problem.studio
Apple's thing is slow and annoying and bugs out. Yours is fast and quick to respond + I really liked the shortcut option as I bind caps-lock to cmd+shift+opt and its easier to use this way
Richard Blechinger
Founder of Notebag
Mumu is super fun / fluid to use for everyday things. Also it's as fast as promised, so I'm enjoying that too.
FAQ
Yes! We provide customizable keyboard shortcut to open the emoji window.
Can I use the native emoji picker shortcut to open Mumu?
Absolutely! Make sure to change your native emoji picker shortcut to something else before setting it for Mumu.
Make sure there's no app that used the same shortcut as Mumu. Otherwise, try to clean up Mumu using AppCleaner and install it again. That should work afterwards.
Each license is limited to 1 mac for 1 year. You'll get frequent updates regarding new features and synonym improvements over that period. Bug fixes are free forever.
Nothing. You could still use the app without getting any updates. Otherwise, you should renew the license. By doing so you support the ongoing development of Mumu to make a better experience for you.
It costs you the same price as the first time you bought it.
No. It's one-time payment. When your license isn't active anymore, you could still use the app without getting any updates.
Yes, it does. The problem you'll notice is just the position of the window that wouldn't always appear near the active caret. It's a well-know issue that's caused by Apple's API limitation. Currently when something wrong happens, Mumu would appear at the center of the screen.
Currently we're supporting from the latest stable version until macOS High Sierra (10.13).
Absolutely! We're still at the beginning of this endeavor. We'll make sure to update the synonyms frequently and addressing customer's needs as soon as possible.
That's great to hear! Feel free to send us your feedback via the button on the menu bar. In a more conversational theme you could DM the founder of Mumu on Twitter @wilbertliu.
There's a send feedback button on the menu bar of the app. That's good to go. If that's not convenient to you, feel free to DM the founder of Mumu on Twitter @wilbertliu.
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