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Chrome will soon have quick Emoji access ??❤?
July 17, 2025
When you’re typing something on your phone, it’s easy to add anEmojito the text; simply hit the Emoji button on thevirtual keyboard, find the one you like, and add it maybe two dozen times to really get your point across.
On your computer, it’s not so simple. There’s no dedicated Emoji button on your keyboard, obviously, and not everyone can afford those fancy MacBooks with the Touch Bar.
Luckily,Googleis going to makeusing Emojis on your computera lot easier by adding an option in the right-click menu that will quickly pull up an Emoji selector. You can test the feature out right now if you have aCanary versionof Chrome installed. If not, the screenshots below will have to suffice:
Believe it or not, you can use Emojis on your computer right now; it’s just a little trickier than this right-click option will be.
On a Mac, all you have to do is hold Control + Command + Space to launch an Emoji selector. This is incredibly easy, but not that many people know it’s there. Chrome’s right-click option is much more intuitive.
On Windows, it’s not as easy. You have to open the touch keyboard by clicking the keyboard icon in the task manager. Then click the Emoji button on the touch keyboard and find your Emoji. There is no keyboard shortcut to access the Emojis for some reason.
If you want to test out the feature but don’t have the Canary version of Chrome, you can followthese instructionsfor getting set up with the experimental and highly-unstable version of the browser.
If you don’t want to go through with that, just wait a bit; it’s likely this feature will hit the stable version of Chrome in a few weeks’ time.
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