“I’m obviously taking a risk here by advertising emoji directly.” – Unsung

A historical account of how emoji came to iPhones before Apple officially supported them. During 2008–2011, emoji were only available on Japanese iPhones, but a hidden preference called `KeyboardEmojiEverywhere` was discovered by developer Steven Troughton-Smith. Enterprising developers then built apps to expose this toggle, sometimes hiding the feature as easter eggs inside unrelated apps to evade App Store rejections. Apple eventually stopped fighting it, and universal emoji support arrived with iOS 5 in 2011.