Hi all. I had suggested an emoji search podcast a few days back. Since no one has taken me up on it, I have done a little research and here's what I found. The interface is cumbersome at best. Once in the emoji keyboard, you have the search field on top of your currently used ones. I found you have to write your term, find it, double tap, go back to the keyboard and hit space for the emoji to be inserted. for me, i wish they had used pickers as I find them easier and quicker to swipe through. Maybe I expected to much out of emoji. I was hoping I could somehow say put in three emoji of a plant or whatever I searched for. This doesn't seem to be the case. I've looked online for other podcasters and the two known ones I did not find anything. Am I the only one who feels let down by the emoji search? I'd hoped for a podcast as i believed the problem was between keyboard and chair as in, me. If anyone has ideas on how to either make things easier or if I am doing something wrong, please save me from the insanity. :) Thx all.
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Here's how I do it
I just go to the emoji search field and type the word birthday for example,, find the letter Q and swipe left from there. Once I find an emoji that I like, I just double tap on it. It will automatically be inserted, however voiceover won't actually say it. When I'm done double tapping, I go back to the emoji keyboard and back to my English keyboard and double tap on done. It may sound like a bit of a process and it probably is, however I'd prefer that 1 million times over what we had before.
Thanks all.
Now that I know the emoji has been put in after a double tap, I guess I can keep doing it to say put in two or three. As with the confusion emoji, never heard that but then again I don't use that much. I'm happy the search is there, I was just frustrated it wasn't more intuitive then it is I guess. I don't really know what i wanted out of the search functionality. Well still, I think a quip tip should be recorded or something. i'd offer to but I have no means to record without it sounding awful in my opinion. I enjoy podcasts which are well done, not someone holding a phone up to a mic. Thanks for the responses.
Now I'm confused.
So far, I haven't run into trouble as of yet. One thing I've noticed is that when I type to an android user, their emoji's are a bit different than ours and are also pronounced a little differently. As I am typing, I can't really think of an example right now. I remember that once my brother sent my mom an emoji which she couldn't recognize, but was easily recognized by voice-over, so this probably may be a new case of emoji blindness LOL.😕
RE: Disappointing emoji search functionality
I utilize the same method as the first comment stated. Personally, I really like it. For example, I have never seen a timer emoji, but I had an instance yesterday, where I wanted to use that. I conducted a search, by inserting the word timer, in the search box, and it popped right up. I'm really glad that they have given us the search feature. Since I wanted to insert the timer clock three times, all I did is three double taps in a row. When I switched back to the message box, there were three timer clocks inserted. I do suggest always double checking the message box before sending, to ensure that you have what you want and nothing else. I learned this the hard way, long before they gave us the search feature.