Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

For decades, choosing an emoji has been constrained to what's available on your smartphone's keyboard. Every year brings new emoji—I like the “face with bags under eyes,” though that one is still ...

Learn how to enable the built-in emoji keyboard on your iPad and iPhone and how to quickly add emojis to messages, emails, and more. Emojis are a fun, helpful way to add some personality to whatever ...

Add a keyboard and your iPad become a very capable desktop. Or a laptop, if you’d prefer. Your iPad is a powerful computer, and becomes even more so if you attach a keyboard to it. Fortunately, it’s ...

If you often insert Emoji in a Word document or Outlook email, you might have to go through a lot of steps. Instead of doing such time-consuming tasks, you can create a keyboard shortcut for emoji in ...

Visuals are extremely helpful, especially when you’re trying to differentiate between a lot of text information. Consider your contacts list, which could have hundreds, maybe even thousands of ...

They're not just for Messages. Apple has made emojis such a part of iOS 14 that you can use them nearly anywhere you can type — and now it's made it easier to find the one you want. Okay, if you tried ...

Podcasters and sound engineers often put together what’s called a “soundboard,” which is a collection of frequently used short audio clips that they can trigger with a click. Sometimes these are used ...