Create your own emoji with Genmoji on iPhone
With Apple Intelligence,* you can create custom emoji—called Genmoji. Simply describe what you want the Genmoji to look like or create one of friends and family based on their photos. You can add Genmoji to messages, share them as a sticker or Tapback, and more.
Note: To create Genmoji, you need an iPhone 16 model, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max and iOS 18.2 or later, with Apple Intelligence turned on. Genmoji is not available in all languages or regions. To check whether Apple Intelligence and Genmoji are available for your device, language, and region, see the Apple Support article How to get Apple Intelligence.
Create Genmoji
Tap a text field, then tap
to switch to the emoji keyboard.Tap
at the top right of the onscreen keyboard.Enter a description in the Describe a Genmoji field, like “Rainbow cactus.”
To refine your Genmoji, just change the description. For example, if the original description was “Giraffe riding a unicycle,” type “Purple giraffe riding a unicycle,” and your Genmoji is updated to match the new description.
Tap Done.
To add a Genmoji to a message, swipe through to find the Genmoji you want to use, then tap Add.
To create a Genmoji based on a photo, enter the name of a person you’ve identified in your photo library, add a description—“Danny celebrating his 35th birthday,” for example—tap Choose a Person, select a person identified in your Photos library, then choose a variation.
Delete Genmoji
Tap a text field, then tap
Swipe right or tap
.Tap
, touch and hold a Genmoji, then tap Remove.
You can also tap 
in a Messages conversation, tap Stickers, touch and hold a Genmoji, then tap Remove.