This Amazing Little Trick Lets You Input Emoji Anywhere on Your Mac

Alyssa Bereznak
·National Correspondent, Technology
Updated

Everybody loves a good emoji. But did you know that you can use a handy keyboard shortcut to insert one anywhere that you can type text on your Mac?

Just hit the Command + Control + space keys simultaneously, and a box full of emoji will pop up. Choose the one you love, and it will appear wherever you’re writing.

You can use this amazing little trick anywhere there’s a text field as long as you’re using Mavericks, the most recent Mac operating system from Apple.

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Your iLife just got upgraded. Big time.

Generous hat tip to @defunct for the shortcut!

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