By not using exclamation points often, you allow them to focus on the message, rather than wonder about your tone. 2. ... don’t compensate by substituting a smiley face or other emoji.

2. Tap the emoji keyboard icon -- the smiley icon -- in the bottom left corner of your screen. 3. Long press on the emoji you want to use. 4. Drag the emoji to the message and release it.

Emoji? Forget it. Even exclamation points were practically vulgar. (My favorite editor, on the subject of exclamation points, used to say “You get one per year.”) ...

They act like punctuation, providing cues about how to understand the words that came before them, as an exclamation point might. Emoji typically add to ideas rather than replace words. “They ...

You can't save these combined emoji, so you'll have to recreate them each time. Hopefully, Apple will let people save them in the future. For more on iOS 17, here's what could be included in iOS ...