How to use Emoji with Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard

1 - Emoji panel

How to access the emoji panel

We offer you two different ways of accessing the emoji panel:

• By long pressing the ‘enter’ (return) key found in the bottom right hand corner of the keyboard.

• With the dedicated emoji key in the bottom left.

Change your emoji preferences by following the below steps:

• Open the Microsoft SwiftKey app

• Tap 'Emoji'

• Toggle the 'Dedicated emoji key' setting to the on position

How to use the emoji panel

The emoji panel enables you to easily find and insert emoji into messages. The full-width panel allows you to see a large selection of emoji at a time.

Once you’ve found the emoji you’re after, simply tap to insert into your text field - as many times as you’d like. Once you’re done, just tap the ‘abc’ key in the bottom left hand corner to go back to the standard keyboard.

2 - Emoji prediction

What is Emoji prediction?

As you probably know, at Microsoft SwiftKey we like to predict things (mainly words). What you may not know is that your Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard also provides you with the option of having emoji suggested on the prediction bar.

With emoji prediction enabled, Microsoft SwiftKey will suggest emoji in the prediction bar for various words. It will also learn from your emoji usage so that if you always send a particular emoji after a particular word, Microsoft SwiftKey will have that ready and waiting for you, like this:

How to enable/disable Emoji prediction

To enable or disable emoji prediction, please do the following:

• Open the Microsoft SwiftKey app

• Tap 'Emoji'

• Toggle the ‘Emoji predictions' setting to the on position