How to type emojis on a keyboard on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android — keyboard shortcuts, built-in emoji panels and quick methods for all your devices. Also copy keyboard emojis 💻 ⌨️ 🖥️ 📱 in one click.
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Keyboard and computer emojis cover devices, interfaces and digital tools. Click any emoji to copy it instantly.
Each operating system has its own keyboard shortcut to open the emoji panel. Here are the official methods for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
Keyboard and tech emoji sequences ready to copy and paste for your messages about computing, work or tech.
Technical codes for keyboard and computer emojis: Unicode code point and HTML entity.
| Emoji | Name | Unicode | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keyboard |
U+2328
|
⌨
|
|
| Laptop |
U+1F4BB
|
💻
|
|
| Desktop computer |
U+1F5A5
|
🖥
|
|
| Mobile phone |
U+1F4F1
|
📱
|
|
| Computer mouse |
U+1F5B1
|
🖱
|
|
| Printer |
U+1F5A8
|
🖨
|
|
| Floppy disk save |
U+1F4BE
|
💾
|
|
| CD-ROM |
U+1F4BF
|
💿
|
|
| Battery |
U+1F50B
|
🔋
|
|
| Electric plug |
U+1F50C
|
🔌
|
|
| Satellite antenna |
U+1F4E1
|
📡
|
|
| Phone with arrow |
U+1F4F2
|
📲
|
|
| Link chain |
U+1F517
|
🔗
|
|
| Trackball |
U+1F5B2
|
🖲
|
|
| DVD |
U+1F4C0
|
📀
|
Press Cmd + Ctrl + Space to open the macOS emoji picker. Search for the emoji you want and double-click to insert it.
Open the emoji keyboard (smiley or globe icon on iPhone, emoji icon on Android). Browse the Symbols section or use the search bar.
Press Win + . (Windows key + full stop) to open the built-in emoji panel. Search for any emoji directly from any application.
On Windows 10 and 11, the shortcut is the Windows key (⊞) + the period (.) — a floating panel opens with all available emojis and a search bar. On macOS, the shortcut is Command (⌘) + Control + Space — the character viewer opens with all emoji categories. Both shortcuts work in the vast majority of desktop applications.
On iPhone, tap the smiley or globe icon at the bottom of the keyboard to switch to the emoji keyboard. On Android with Gboard, tap the smiley icon to the left of the space bar. The fastest method on all devices remains copying an emoji from this page in one click and pasting it directly into your message.
Yes. Emojis copied from this page are standard Unicode characters that work in Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice documents. In Outlook, the Windows shortcut (⊞ + .) works directly in the message body. In Word, emojis can also be inserted via the Insert > Symbol menu or by typing an emoji name between colons (autocorrect).
For email subjects, emojis are supported by the majority of modern email clients — Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Yahoo Mail — and display correctly in most inboxes. Some older or corporate clients may display them as squares — in that case, it is better to keep them for the message body.
Yes. All emojis on this site are standard Unicode characters that display on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux and ChromeOS. Appearance may vary slightly by platform — Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each have their own emoji designs — but the copied character is identical everywhere and will be correctly interpreted by all systems.
If an emoji appears as a square or question mark, it means the system does not yet support that emoji (often very recent emojis). The solution is to update the operating system or use a more common emoji.