Create your own emoji with Genmoji on Mac
With Apple Intelligence,* you can create custom emoji—called Genmoji. Simply describe what you want the Genmoji to look like or create one of a friend or family member based on their photo. You can add Genmoji to messages, share them as a sticker or Tapback, and more.
Note: To create Genmoji, you need a Mac with M1 or later and macOS 15.3 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
While writing in an app, press Fn/
-E on your keyboard.Tip: In some apps, like Mail or Messages, you can also click
.Do one of the following:
Click
at the top right of the Character Viewer, enter a description in the Describe an Emoji field, then press Return.Enter a description in the Describe an Emoji field, then click Create New Emoji.
Click
and 
to find the Genmoji you want to use.To refine your Genmoji, just change the description. For example, if the original description was “Giraffe riding a unicycle,” you can update the Genmoji by typing “Purple giraffe riding a unicycle.”
Click 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—then click Create New Emoji.
Delete Genmoji
Press Fn/
-E on your keyboard.Click
.Control-click the Genmoji you want to delete, then choose Delete.
You can also click 
in a Messages conversation, click Stickers, Control-click a Genmoji, then choose Delete.
To block access to image creation features, like Genmoji, see Block access to image creation features.