You must’ve accidentally sent the wrong emoji to a client, a colleague, or a relative at least once. That’s because the emoji keyboard on iPhone and iPad holds all the frequently used emojis first for quick access. While there’s no direct way to remove a single emoji from that stack, you can remove all of them together. Here’s how you can remove frequently used emojis on iPhone and iPad.
Things to Know Before Removing Frequently Used Emojis
The frequenly used emojis appear on the left side of the emoji keyboard. As noted earlier, you can’t delete a single emoji from the recent and frequently used emojis list. You’ll need to delete the entire list. Thankfully, it doesn’t affect the Memoji stickers list besides suggested emojis.
To remove frequently used emojis on iphone, you need to reset the Keyboard Dictionary. That deletes all the custom words and shortcuts you’ve typed on the keyboard on your iPhone or iPad. You’ll also need to train the keyboard on iPhone or iPad to adjust the Auto-correction and word prediction features again. You can train the keyboard on iPhone and sync the changes using iCloud to iPad.
Luckily, resetting the Keyboard Dictionary for the iOS keyboard won’t affect other software keyboards on your iPhone, like Gboard.
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Note: The following solution applies to iPhone with iOS 15 and later and iPad with iPadOS 15 and later.
Remove Frequently Used Emojis on iPhone and iPad
The only option to clear the emojis from the keyboard is to reset its dictionary on your iPhone and iPad. Unfortunately, iOS and iPadOS don’t offer any specific settings just for emojis or removing a particular one from the emoji keyboard.
1. Open the Settings app on iPhone and iPad and navigate to General > Transfer or Reset iPhone section (General > Transfer or Reset iPad for iPad).
2. Tap on Reset at the bottom and select Reset Keyboard Dictionary. You’ll need to enter the passcode for your iPhone or iPad.
3. Tap on Reset Dictionary pop-up to remove all the frequently used emojis, shortcuts, and custom words.
Frequently Used Gets Default Emojis
After following the above method, you will continue to see the Frequently Used section when you bring up the emoji keyboard on your iPhone and iPad. The difference is that you’ll see a pre-populated or Apple’s default list of emojis appearing under the Frequently Used section. After that, a new frequently used emoji will continue to take the top-left spot on the emoji keyboard and the others will get pushed down further. Naturally, some of those emojis will stay there based on how frequently you use them across messages, notes, emails, and browsers on iPhone and iPad.
