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What is Animoji?

Here, we are going to learn about the Animoji – iOS includes an animated emoji feature known as Animoji. This responds to facial expressions via the camera to animate 3D animated emojis.
Submitted by Anushree Goswami, on July 15, 2020

Animoji

You all must have heard about the emojis which now you use daily in your android and iPhones. But what is Animoji? Let's discuss it in detail.

If we break Animoji, it termed as "Ani" and "Moji" where Ani refers to Animation and Moji refers to emoji. It is an animated emoji launched with the iOS 11 version by the Apple. It uses the Facial scanning System on the Apple device. Using that feature, it recognizes the expression of the user on the device. For example, if a person is sad or happy or angry, it captures the expression occurring due to particular emotion and then convert it into an Animoji.

Image source: https://www.macworld.com/article/3279734/how-to-create-and-edit-memoji-in-ios-12.html

After capturing the expression, it gets stored in the messages app of the iOS 11 device.

It is largely used by mass as a fun conversation in the chat messages with their friends and family. People like to send Animoji as it shows the exact emotion they are in. Animoji is more interesting to users than emoji.

As these Animoji capture the expressions, it runs as a video and runs in a loop in the recipient chat. People add audio in Animoji as well.

How Animoji are better than Emoji?

• One can capture their exact expression into the Animoji.
• Animoji can contain audio as well.
• It runs as a video so looks more attractive.

Have iPhone and hasn't created Animoji yet? Do now, it's fun!