An curved arrow pointing right. Apple just unveiled animated emoji, which they're calling "Animoji." They can be used in the Messenger app and can be used as stickers or sent to a friend as a video.

There's something hilariously perfect about sending my friend a custom sticker of emoji-her riding a dinosaur ... text responses into personalized animated adventures, I'll show you exactly ...

And it looks like we're about to get another fun new feature: animated emoji. We've heard that this one is in development from multiple rumours, and the latest one adds fuel to the rumour machine ...

Tap on the emoji of your choice. Stickers with possible emoji combinations will appear in the space above the keyboard. Once you have chosen your two combinations, you should see a new emoji ...

Simply put, you give it a prompt, and it will generate an emoji—a small, sticker-sized image that can be saved to be reused in chats. While you're always limited by Apple's guardrails ...