Liven things up with a shortcut for emojis on your Mac

There are several places on your Mac where you can use emojis, for example on WhatsApp or via Facebook. However, your Mac(Book) also has its own emoji keyboard! Where do you find these? That’s what OMT editor Sabine explains to you in this article.

Sometimes you want to use emojis in a document, email or other application. You can then open WhatsApp, place an emoji in the message bar and copy and paste it to a text field of your choice, but that is quite cumbersome. How can it be better? With this handy shortcut for your Mac!

Special keyboard on Mac

Bringing up the emoji window on your Mac is pretty easy. Press the keys Ctrl + Cmd + Space on the keyboard of your Mac(Book). Voilà, a window immediately appears where you can find all the faces and other icons. Easy peasy.

Make sure your cursor is in the right place in the text field. The emoji will then automatically appear in the desired location when you click on one. You can also easily find your most used smileys at the top, so that you always have your favorites at hand. This way you can find the right emoji for every moment even faster.

Emojis from Apple

Once in a while, new variants come to Apple devices, such as your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. In addition, Apple has even released its own Memoji. That’s a kind of emoticon of yourself. You can adjust these yourself as desired. In macOS Ventura you can even pimp your login screen with an animated Memoji.

Before you send emojis via the handy Mac shortcut, it’s useful to know that there are 15 variants that are almost always misinterpreted. These include situations where we think it involves folded hands, a shooting star, a dancing woman and a person sticking out their tongue. Spoiler: that’s not true.