The UX is still that you get a drop-down picker. What component of the system implements that seems of little importance to users unless that becomes obvious (

The UX is still that you get a drop-down picker. What component of the system implements that seems of little importance to users unless that becomes obvious (each app doing it differently, though obviously that happens). I expect that the emoji picker will become part of the OS eventually. Heck, Windows has one that you have to call up explicitly (with <Alt>-.), iOS has an emoji "keyboard" (input mode), etc, so we're headed in that direction.