"Where's the emoji for this?" I ask myself on too many occasions. Honestly, when I'm texting and feeling playful, spending time scrolling through the existing grid of emoji and coming up empty ...

With the help of Apple Intelligence, you can generate custom emojis right from your keyboard using text prompts or even a person's photo from your Photos library. Below, I break down all the steps ...

Simply put, you give it a prompt, and it will generate an emoji—a small, sticker-sized image that can be saved to be reused in chats. While you're always limited by Apple's guardrails ...