In a world where we’re increasingly communicating via text, the humble emoji — the little cartoonish pictograms we use to adorn text messages, emails, and online chats — has never been more important.

Having the ability to create your own emoji can be fun and will allow you to personalise your messages with a custom image. It should be noted that the methods we list here create a separate image, ...

Apple announced on June 9 at its Worldwide Developers Conference that the next version of the iPhone's operating system will be called iOS 26. The tech giant said that update will bring a transparent ...

Apple’s latest iOS 18.1 software update introduced a series of Apple Intelligence features, including Writing Tools and notification summaries. However, some features were missing from the lineup, ...

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How’d you like to turn yourself into an emoji character? Instead of texting the plain ol’ smiley faces, why not spice it up with a character that looks just like you and can express a wide variety of ...

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