Think of emoticons as the traditional smiley face -- with a lot more personality. Crafting an emoticon like the shrug-face takes a lot more work than an emoji, though.

This guide will show you how to use a secret iPhone emoticons keyboard to quickly access hilarious and otherwise hard to type emoticons anywhere you can type text. You don’t need to buy or ...

There’s a secret keyboard hidden in iOS containing smiley faces that you can unlock – if you know how. We’re not talking about emoji or even Apple’s fancy face-tracking Animoji creatures ...

Congratulations, now you can finally start using your emoji keyboard. Enjoy the freedom in using a slew of smileys, and what kind of smiley you use is entirely up to you.

These smileys are hidden inside the Japanese keyboard, which is installed by default on all iPhones. Once you know how to turn it on, you'll find a lot of smiley choices, and most of them are ...

If you really love communicating with emoji, Skype has you covered. Here is a guide to the 40 hidden Skype emoticons sure to spice up your calls.

If 26 letters is too much for you, then this keyboard is able to convey emotions in mere seconds - sending them to your phone. It all comes after linguistics experts revealed that the colourful ...

PITTSBURGH — Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online. Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses ...