How to customize your iPhone’s Memoji

Create a Memoji to match your personality and mood, then make as many alter egos as you want in Messages and FaceTime. Apple.com

Now that iOS 13 has been out for a couple of months, chances are you’ve heard about the new ways to customize your Memoji avatar. Apple’s update added more skin colors, new makeup, accessories, piercings and even the ability to customize your Memoji teeth. The improved Memoji avatars are already baked into the new iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Max Pro.

Memoji is one more way Apple is trying to personalize your device, while also standing out from rivals. While Samsung phones have AR Emoji avatars you can create, the 3D renderings initially creeped users out and Samsung barely mentioned the feature when it launched its Galaxy S10 phones.

Google hasn’t come out with its own Memoji competitor, though standalone apps like Bitmoji are still popular for iPhone and Android.

Where can you use Apple’s Memoji? Memoji can be used in the Messages, FaceTime, Mail and Notes apps, as well as your other favorite apps.

With iOS 13, you have more options for skin colors (including green), hairstyles, facial hair and makeup. There are different tabs you can move between to access each category (skin, hairstyle, eyes and so on). From each tab, use the slider to adjust the skin, hair and makeup colors.

You’ll also notice more accessories options, like hats, glasses, AirPods, earrings, braces and piercings. Customize your teeth by giving your Memoji a gap, a missing tooth and even braces.

Instead of using emoji when you’re messaging your friends, you can use your personalized Memoji stickers. Once you design your Memoji, your iPhone will automatically create a sticker pack for you to use.