There are dozens of emoji keyboards you can download and use instead. These other keyboards offer everything from animated emoji, gifs and stickers to different themes. Here are five emoji ...

I'd rather just send a thumbs-up emoji. That's what we all do.' Just under one in ten say they prefer to text the abbreviation TYSM (thank you so much) rather than saying it. While 36 per cent ...

It’s enabled by default today. Once disabled, Animated Emoji is replaced by regular emoji characters, while you no longer have fullscreen Screen Effects (though Google might have rolled this ...

Google is currently testing animated emoji reactions within its Messages app, to captivate users. The new feature has been discovered in the beta version by a user known as AssembleDebug ...

It’s quite common for apps like Discord and Telegram to upsize emoji-only messages for emphasis. All the same, I quite like it. What do you think of the new animated emoji in Google Messages?

And it looks like we're about to get another fun new feature: animated emoji. If the necessary libraries ... It's not all roses in the WhatsApp garden, though. If you visit the WhatsApp blog ...