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Genmoji in iOS 18.2: Create Custom Emoji in Messages
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As someone who loves computers, but just doesn’t see the point of emojis, I guess I am officially old…
can we get multiple user spaces - would be nice to have completely separate spaces. limit the feature to 512gb devices so it's an upsell - everyone wins - apple gets the extra money they want, users get the feature they want
I tried replicating the “smiley relaxing wearing cucumbers” genmoji and these are what I got:
Definitely not ready for prime time. 🙄😂
Definitely not ready for prime time. 🙄😂
I tried to use that a few times. The feature just doesn’t work. Everything I got is more cringe and creepy than usable.
Use emoji on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support (CA)
Bring words to life with the tap of a finger.
I turned it off on my phone.
It will indeed! I was surprised with the variety on the most basic emojis.
I also didn't think people would notice but my niece noticed immediately when I added a laughing even harder emoji. it was the sideways laughing with a tongue out and a little droplet next to it.
So far I've only been running my family through it. We all started out nightmarish and improved over time. EXCEPT my niece who was perfect from photo one. At one point we were like we will watch whatever show this character is on lol. She looks like a Disney princess.
My brother on the other hand still looks like a long lost brother we didn't know we had.
It inexplicably removes my eyeglasses and sometimes it only includes parts of eyeglasses.
Overall it's fairly limited at the moment which is fine because where would I use all of these. The novelty wears off pretty quickly. The Genmoji are fun though.
The large emojis you see in iMessage when you just send the emoji are easy to see and, often, readily understood. But the tiny versions you get inline with text are ridiculously small and can be very hard to interpret.
If these appear the same size as other inline emojis, I can't imagine using them.
If these appear the same size as other inline emojis, I can't imagine using them.
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Apple was like scr3w the the Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.). They take way too long to come up with new emoji. I really dig this. I use emoji heavily in social media posts as a way to bullet-point information. Lets say details on a custom car for sale. I'll use the emoji to list details such as cost, location and various details about said car. It helps me streamline the details. The shorter the better as many don't tend to read much lol. I hope social media will allow these to be used in the near future. e.g. Instagram (assuming they don't work outside Apple's ecosystem at the moment).
I agree this is a really strange implementation. With standard emojis I know what they are but these could be anything. I've been making sure to send a genmoji on a line by itself.
I think the people that don't think genmoji will be popular are very, very wrong.
I too think they will be very popular.
Long gone are the days I would consider any form of beta software, so am awaiting the final release. I already have some specific use cases where it converting to an image would be just fine. If it works as I hope!
This reminds me of the "Exact Instructions" challenge we had to do in school for making a PB&J sandwich. We had to write down the instructions, and someone else would have to follow them exactly. The results were interesting and very few ended up with the correct product.
I know this was an attempt to replicate Apple's marketing material (which may have just been a mock-up), but it doesn't say where the smiley should be wearing the cucumbers. Do you at least get better results if the request is more specific? I agree that AI should have figured out what you meant though.
Results definitely aren't perfect but they can be very funny. If they would just let you select any photo like the Image Playground interface does it would be so much better.
I changed the prompt to “Smiley relaxing with cucumbers on eyes” and got this:
So it seems we need to be more descriptive than just typing “wearing cucumbers.”