Search for Emoji

If you’ve ever struggled to find just the right emoji, you’ll appreciate that iOS 14 will now allow you to actually search for a specific emoji by name or topic to help you whittle down the list. This has been available on the Mac for a while, but iOS users had to deal with the kludgy workaround of relying on the autocomplete bar, which often only surfaced one or two options, and not the entire possible list.

In iOS 14, tapping on the emoji button on the keyboard displays a search field where you can type in a word like “happy” to see an appropriate filtered list of emojis. As 9to5Mac notes, the UI for it is a little wonky right now, but it’s the first developer beta, so we’re sure it will be refined over the next few releases.