Learn how to use 🙂 Emoji’s, ௹ ⧒ 𝒲 Special Characters, and ♨︎ More in your posts and comments quickly and easily with this very special guide. ✍️

For you Mac & apple users you no longer need to reference/use my Steemit Emoji Master List any longer and thank god for that! I have been using the very helpful and easy to use Mac tools recently and so can you!

Desktop

_{Mavericks 10.9.3 or Newer}

The Emoji & Character Tool

As you type within any Steemit input field (Post Title, Post Body, Comment Body...) and you suddenly desire to express an emotion 😏 like so... simply use the following 🎹 keyboard shortcut:

_{Use This Keyboard Shortcut | Control + Command + Space Bar}

Once the shortcut is entered correctly you will see the Emoji & Character Tool pop up 🎉 immediately below your cursor!

From here you have a bunch of very cool 😎 options to utilize, some of which even frequented ☝️ users may not know!

Emojis

Immediately upon seeing the pop-up tool you will notice the frequently used section. If you have ever used emojis before (which if you're here is most likely) you will see familiar emojis listed here 😉.

Below this will be the first and most widely used emojis or Smileys & People 👶 which is pretty straight forward. If you look just below this scrollable section you will find a key.

Which will let you navigate different categories of emojis. Although helpful 🤔 the fastest 🔥 way is usually always the search feature! 🕵️‍♀️

This is by far the easiest way to get the emoji you're looking for quickly 🏃. Now if you look right next to the search box you will see alit icon, this brings us to Special Characters! So go ahead and click this icon.

Special Characters

_{This one can actually be left open 📖, which also means it requires you to close 📕 it when finished.}

From here you can easily navigate via the 👈 left side menu of available categories (as seen above) and also utilize the 🕵️‍♀️ search box yet again inside of this as well!

There are some very cool 🙃 special characters you can utilize to make your posts and comments stand out and look more professional as well. Lets try some math with this extremely easy eqaution 😂

∆34 ∀ / 3.14 ∞ 5 ∋ 27.89 ≥ 56 } ⨊ ( ∎ 56 ∗ 4∍ 23 ≥ 567 ≭)

Now that was fun!

Adding Favorites

You can also add emojis and special characters to your favorites. This helps when your frequently used changes a lot and you still want to maintain your absolute favorites ‍

It's quite easy to add an emoji to your favorites just click the button labeled as such!

Removing / Mange Favorites

In the Secondary View or character window you will now see a favorites menu item on the ⬅︎ left hand menu.

Once there you can click on the desired emoji to remove and then click the Remove From Favorites button.

Unicode Information for Programmers

To gain access to this valuable information is simple. Right-Click or Control-Click on the desired emoji.

Then select Copy Character Info, this will copy all of the unicode information for the emoji in your clipboard. So all you have to do is paste it somewhere... lets say into a Steemit post as such:

winking face with stuck-out tongue

Unicode: U+1F61C, UTF-8: F0 9F 98 9C

And there you have it!

iPhone (All Apple Devices)

For the iPhone and other Apple devices the tools are very similar and very straight forward, especially since you own the device 😎 and most likely use this feature all the time ☝️

Once you tap on the desired input field you will be promoted with the keyboard on the bottom of your screen (the usual deal) Now in order to access your emojis simply tap on the little smiley face located 👉 next to the 123 (numbers) icon, as seen here:

This will open up your emoji & symbol menu where you can select all the emojis you desire 😍

Enabling & Using the Emoji & Character Panel Menu Bar Item

_{cLittle something extra to help those of you with messed up foreign language keyboards}

1. Pull down the  Apple menu and go to System Preferences, then click on “Keyboard”

2. Under the “Keyboard” tab, check the box alongside “Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar” (note: you may need to check that box a couple of times to get the menu bar to immediately display, this is probably a bug)

3. Show the Emoji Character Viewer menu bar item in Mac OS X

4. Now that the character menu is enabled, you can find it in the OS X menu bar, it looks like a little iconized version of the character viewing panel itself.

5. Pull down the Character menu and choose “Show Character Viewer”

Well wasn't that easy!
_{Any questions, thoughts, additions, and or remarks feel free to comment below! Don't forget those emojis!}

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