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Mac setup

The first-run screens for EmojiCopy for Mac. A welcome, then four steps: typing access, the quick trigger, where the app lives, and a live test. The last two cards sit outside the flow.

A · Welcome First launch, shown at real scale on the desktop
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Set up EmojiCopy Four steps. Change any of it later.
B · Step 1 · Access The only required step
1 · Priming, before the system window
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Typing access So EmojiCopy can type the emoji you click. It never reads what you type.
macOS asks next.
2 · Waiting, system window open on top
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Turn on the switch
Typing access Not on yet
System Settings Privacy & Security Accessibility
Allow the applications below to control your computer.
Another app
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Later
3 · Allowed. Flips in place and advances itself
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Typing access
Allowed by macOS
C · Step 2 · Trigger Verifies with the user what the API only logs
1 · Waiting for the press
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Your quick trigger Press them to check they work.
+ + E
2 · Keys lit, trigger confirmed
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Your quick trigger Press them to check they work.
+ + E
Works everywhere
3 · Collides with Apple's own picker
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Your quick trigger
+ + Space
These open Apple's emoji picker. EmojiCopy would take them over.
Use these instead E
D · Step 3 · Where it lives Try the toggles. The preview answers them
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Where it lives Closing the window does not quit it.
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Menu bar icon Opens EmojiCopy under it.
Dock icon Off means no Dock, no Command Tab.
Open at Login Ready when you sign in.
Also in Settings.
E · Step 4 · Try it Proof, not a checkmark
1 · Waiting for the user to try it
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Try it Press your keys and pick one.
Type something here
+ + E
This is the whole app.
2 · Mini open at the cursor, over the flow and onto the desktop
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Try it Press your keys and pick one.
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+ + E
This is the whole app.
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3 · It landed. The flow ends on the proof
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Working. Same in every app.
F · Before the flow · Move to Applications Only when the app is running from the wrong place
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Move to Applications Permissions do not stick from here.
G · Later · Typing access off Not onboarding. The standing recovery surface
1 · The nudge, in the mini window where the failure happened
Copying only It is on your clipboard. Typing access is off.
2 · The fix, in the main window. Note the different instruction
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Not typing macOS says allowed, nothing lands. Usually an update.
System Settings Privacy & Security Accessibility
Select EmojiCopy, then click minus. It will ask again.
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Removes it from the list
Toggling it off and on does not fix this.
Emoji still copy to your clipboard.