I love the artwork here, glad they are still expanding the set to be ever more representational. As this set expands, we’re going to need better search tools. Scrolling through pages and pages of emoji is reaching a breaking point.
Text substitution is one solution. Keeping a page of recently used emoji (as iOS does now) is also helpful, though perhaps Apple could add in a pane of configurable favorites?
Note this, in bold letters on the Emojipedia page:
This update is not final and is subject to change.
Just something to keep in mind. And where’s that rimshot emoji?
“we’re going to need better search tools.”
Exactly. It is already that way on the desktop, OS X Messages has a search box, so someone knows it’s a solution at Apple.
The google keyboard (GBoard) on iOS lets you search for emoji. You can enter terms such as ‘drink’ and get common options, etc. I find it extremely useful.
iOS already shows emoji as substitution options in Twitter, Messages, and presumably any app that takes emoji. For example, when I write “house”, the house emoji appears as an option.