Emoji include symbols to express emotions and pictographs for common concepts and objects. Using emoji, you can add character, emotion, and life to otherwise bland messages. Adding emoji to an email is easy, and you can add them not only to the body of the message but also insert to the Subject and To fields.
How to Add Emoji to Mail in macOS Catalina (10.15) and Mojave (10.14)
The latest versions of macOS have made it fast and easy to insert emoji. Here’s how you do it.
How to Add Emoji to Mail Using the Touch Bar
If you have a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, you have access to an even faster way to add emoji to email and other messages. Apple’s touch-sensitive contextual menu performs a variety of functions, including serving as an emoji keyboard.
How to Add Emoji to Mail in macOS High Sierra (10.13) through OS X Mavericks (10.9)
In macOS High Sierra through OS X Mavericks, you can access the emoji keyboard via Mail’s Edit menu. Here’s what to do. If you find the emoji menu too small, expand it to open the full Character Viewer menu using the small button at the top right corner of the emoji menu. Use the Emoji option on the left to find only emoji or select any of the other menus for arrows, stars, currency symbols, math symbols, punctuation, music symbols, Latin, and other symbols and characters to insert into the email. If you go this route, you have to double-click the emoji to add it to the email.
How to Add Emoji to Mail in Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7)
The early implementation of emoji in Apple Mail used a different procedure to access the characters. Follow these steps to insert them.
