Access Memoji's use the Character Viewer

I guess this is more of an ease of use OS issue request and I might be the only person that has been affected by this. It regards accessing Memoji's. Call me stupid but for a long time I missed how to find them on my iMac. I clicked the World icon on my keyboard and the Character Viewer came up. But there were no Memoji's, so I guess I just accepted that I couldn't access them on computer. If I wanted to use them I simply used my iPhone or iPad.


I will say here that I am still using Ventura rather than Sequoia due to a major issue I had when I updated my MI iMac. Basically it bricked my machine and it took 4 days to return everything back to normal. That was an annoyance but not really relevant today.


As I delved a little deeper this morning and I took the time to change my Apple ID image I came across Memoji's. I had thought that they were only available on a newer OS. But in messages I finally realised that if I clicked on the 'A' graphic next to messages it brought up photos, Memoji stickers, #images, message effects. On my iPad and old SE2 iPhone the same thing is represented by a '+' symbol. Probably why I didn't equate them as the same action.


Now I don't know if the latest OS software was updated to include Memoji's in the Character Viewer, but it would certainly be useful for users like myself, if only as another way of accessing them.


Thanks

Posted on Aug 25, 2025 7:55 AM

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Posted on Aug 25, 2025 10:20 AM

R_T_White wrote:


Now I don't know if the latest OS software was updated to include Memoji's in the Character Viewer, but it would certainly be useful for users like myself, if only as another way of accessing them.

No, Character Viewer only shows Unicode characters which are included in the fonts installed by Apple with the OS. Emoji are such characters but Memoji are not. To ask Apple to create improved ways to access Memoji, you can use


http://www.apple.com/feedback


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Aug 25, 2025 10:20 AM in response to R_T_White

R_T_White wrote:


Now I don't know if the latest OS software was updated to include Memoji's in the Character Viewer, but it would certainly be useful for users like myself, if only as another way of accessing them.

No, Character Viewer only shows Unicode characters which are included in the fonts installed by Apple with the OS. Emoji are such characters but Memoji are not. To ask Apple to create improved ways to access Memoji, you can use


http://www.apple.com/feedback


Aug 25, 2025 9:56 AM in response to R_T_White

You might want to upgrade to Sequoia because see this


Use the Character Viewer to search for and insert emoji, symbols, characters from other languages, and more.


  1. Press Fn/-E, or choose Edit > Emoji & Symbols.
  2. Click a character or symbol to add it to your text (or double-click it if the Character Viewer is expanded).
  3. To quickly find a specific emoji, enter a word or phrase (such as “laughing face”) in the search field.
  4. To see variations of an emoji—like different skin tones—click and hold the emoji in the viewer.




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