You only need to hold them down for a moment.
Press the Control, Command (⌘), and spacebar keys on your keyboard.
Place your cursor where you want the emoji (such as a messaging service), and then follow these steps. Accessing this Character Viewer is very simple. The Character Viewer is a small window of emojis that is built into the latest MacOS. The advantage of this little window (compared to emoji options within many individual apps) is that the same emoji options are available everywhere you want to use them on your Mac, including places you may have never tried them before.
