The iPhone has a hidden emoticon keyboard - here's how to find it

as mentioned in There's a secret keyboard hidden in iOS containing smiley faces that you can unlock – if you know how. We're not talking about emoji or even Apple's fancy face-tracking Animoji creatures, but rather some old school smiley faces made up of punctuation characters. Give your messages a bit of old school emotion (Image: Getty)The secret smiley keyboard is contained as part of the Japanese keyboard, which is installed by default on your iPhone. Once you've activated it, you can find a bunch of pre-drawn smiley faces that you can start to drop into your chats and messages. Here's how to find it:Go to settings, tap on 'General' then go to 'Keyboard' and press 'Keyboards' in the sub menu.

There's a hidden iPhone keyboard with lots of adorable smiley faces — here's how to turn it on

There may be over 2,800 emoji available on your phone, but some occasions deserve an old-school smiley face — and there's a keyboard with a ton of smileys already installed on your iPhone. These smileys are hidden inside the Japanese keyboard, which is installed by default on all iPhones. Once you know how to turn it on, you'll find a lot of smiley choices, and most of them are adorable. Most iPhone users who don't live in Japan don't know about this keyboard. Here's how to get a keyboard of smileys on your phone:

iPhone tricks, hidden Microsoft browser and more: Tech Q&A

as informed in Tap or click here for 12 security settings you need to change right now. A: Microsoft Edge was a leap for Microsoft, and most users agree that Edge is superior to the now-defunct Explorer. Microsoft software is pretty susceptible to malware, and there's no easier way to contract a virus (or get hacked) than through the internet. One way to protect yourself is to make your browser invisible on the internet, and Microsoft had the foresight to make that possible. Tap or click here to use the internet securely with Microsoft Edge's special setting.

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