So, as an example, you can get to the koala emoji by typing koala or Australia and you can get to the heart emojis by typing heart or love. There’s a whole dictionary of words associated with the various emoji that has been built into Emoji Type. That means you can start typing koala and Emoji Type will pull up the koala emoji in a bar similar to the QuickType suggestion bar from iOS 8’s default keyboard.

This is particularly the case when searching for an emoji, with no idea if it exists or where it might be.Įmoji Type, which launched today, is a new predictive emoji keyboard. But as someone who is admittedly a bit of a novice when it comes to emoji, the wall of emoji in Emoji++, whilst a massive improvement over the default emoji keyboard, is still a bit intimidating at times. Like many people, I’ve been using and enjoying the fantastic Emoji++ from David Smith (you can read our review here). Emoji have really taken off this year, and on the iPhone and iPad it is easier than ever to use them thanks to iOS 8’s custom keyboards.

Emoji keyboard predictive text