If your iPhone or iPad has stopped predicting emojis for you to use, here are several fixes you can try.
How to Make Predictive Emoji Work on Your iPhone
To understand where the problem comes from, it’s essential to know how the feature works. Predictive emoji learns from your conversation style and typing habits from your past conversations, as well as the sites you visit on Safari.
The keyboard also works with predictive text and suggests the corresponding emoji based on the words on the predictive input field. However, this feature doesn’t work perfectly and isn’t available in every app.
1. Make Sure Predictive Emojis Are Turned On
First, check if you have the emoji keyboard installed on your device. Head to Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add a New Keyboard, then select Emoji.
Then, see if the Predictive function is enabled. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard, then turn Predictive on by toggling the switch.
2. Reset Your Keyboard Dictionary
If predictive emojis are turned on, but they still aren’t working, you can try resetting your keyboard dictionary. To do this, go to Settings > General > Dictionary, then deselect and reselect your dictionaries.
3. Feed Your Device With Emojis
As we already mentioned, your iPhone or iPad feeds on the information you give it and makes suggestions based on your typing style and past usage. If you don’t use emojis that much in your messages, then that may be the reason you’re not getting any emoji suggestions.
You need to let your keyboard know that you like using emojis. The feature will activate once it detects that you use emojis in your regular conversations. Moreover, if you’re not using emojis on certain apps, you won’t likely get predictive emojis from there until you begin using emojis while using that app.
Here’s what you need to do:
Open the app that doesn’t show you predictive emojis. Begin typing a few characters. It doesn’t need to make sense. Tap the globe or emoji button. Select more about 15 to 20 emojis. This should be enough to inform your device that you’re using emojis in your chats using the app. Delete all the content of the text field. Check if predictive emoji is working by typing a word like “soccer,” “punch,” “candy,” or “haha. ” You should now see emoji suggestions above the keyboard.
You can repeat this process for every app where predictive emoji is not working.
4. Delete Your Emoji Keyboard
You can also reset your emoji keyboard by removing it and adding it again. To do this:
Go to Settings > General > Keyboard. Tap Keyboards, then select Emoji and swipe to the left. Tap Delete. Tap Add New Keyboard, then select Emoji.
5. Restart Your iPhone or iPad
If everything seems to fail, you can try restarting your iPhone. Sometimes, a simple reboot can clear up issues and bugs, which may be enough to solve the problem. Follow this guide to restart your iPhone.
6. Update Your Software
Apple does its best to improve your iPhone and iPad software with every update. These updates include fixing common bugs that pester users. To update your software to the latest version of iOS or iPadOS, head to Settings > General > Software Update.
If your software is not updated, you’ll see a Download and Install button at the bottom of the screen. Tap it and follow the prompts to complete the update.
A Digital Communication Necessity
In this digital age, emojis have become a regular part of our communication. Apple’s predictive emoji feature is a handy tool that intuitively suggests emojis that you can seamlessly insert into your conversations.
Try any of these options to fix predictive emojis if they stop working on your iPhone or iPad at any time.
