
Step 4: Tap the Memoji button (with the yellow frame) on newer phones with TrueDepth cameras or the Stickers button (with the three heads) on older phones. Step 3: If you don’t see the app drawer below the message bar, tap the App Store icon to reveal the app tray. Step 2: Tap the New Message icon at the top right of the screen. Step 1: Open the Messages app on your iPhone or iPad. Or you can create Memoji of your friends. You can make a Memoji look just like you, or how you wish to look. There's also assortment of customization options.Ĭreating your own Memoji is easy and fun. Static Memoji stickers work with Animoji so that all Memoji and Animoji get sticker packs in iOS 13 and later, with 24 varieties in the pack to let you select the specific emotion you want to express. The Memoji on older iPhones that don’t have advanced cameras automatically generate Memoji Sticker packs for everyone. With the launch of iOS 13, and continuing in iOS 14, even older devices let you create your own Memoji. Memoji and Animoji are most often used in Messages as stickers or videos, with FaceTime calls, and in third-party apps and messengers. Sensors on the front of your device let you manipulate Animoji by altering your expression - smiling, frowning, scowling, sticking out your tongue, or turning your head. This also works on the iPad, including the iPad Pro 11-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch third-generation, and newer models. That’s because it uses your device’s Face ID to facilitate the creation and recording of animated messages.

The Animoji feature debuted with the iPhone X, but it initially worked only on iPhone models with TrueDepth cameras that could mimic your facial expressions and head movements. Troubleshooting creation of Memoji and Animoji.Use your Memoji without a TrueDepth camera.Use your Memoji on an iPhone with a TrueDepth camera.
