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iPhone User Guide

Create your own emoji with Genmoji on iPhone

With Apple Intelligence,* you can create custom emoji—called Genmoji. Simply describe what you want the Genmoji to look like or create one of friends and family based on their photos. You can add Genmoji to messages, share them as a sticker or Tapback, and more.

Note: Apple Intelligence is not available on all iPhone models or in all languages or regions.** To access the most recent available features, make sure you’re using the latest version of iOS and have Apple Intelligence turned on.

👁 An iPhone showing a conversation in the Messages app. A Genmoji appears in the middle of the screen, above the keyboard.

Create Genmoji

  1. Tap a text field, then tap or 👁 the Next Keyboard key
    to switch to the emoji keyboard.

  2. Tap 👁 the Genmoji button
    at the top right of the onscreen keyboard.

  3. Enter a description in the Describe a Genmoji field, like “Rainbow cactus.”

    To refine your Genmoji, just change the description. For example, if the original description was “Giraffe riding a unicycle,” type “Purple giraffe riding a unicycle,” and your Genmoji is updated to match the new description.

  4. Tap Done.

  5. To add a Genmoji to a message, swipe through to find the Genmoji you want to use, then tap Add.

To create a Genmoji based on a photo, enter the name of a person you’ve identified in your photo library, add a description—“Danny celebrating his 35th birthday,” for example—tap Choose a Person, select a person identified in your Photos library, then choose a variation.

Delete Genmoji

  1. Tap a text field, then tap or 👁 the Next Keyboard key
    to switch to the emoji keyboard.

  2. Swipe right or tap 👁 the Stickers button
    .

  3. Tap 👁 the Stickers button
    ,     touch and hold a Genmoji, then tap Remove.

You can also tap 👁 the Apps button
in a Messages conversation, tap Stickers, touch and hold a Genmoji, then tap Remove.

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