Josh Gare (born 20 September 1992)[1] is an English computer programmer and internet entrepreneur.
He was a student at the family's local Academy (English school), Ranelagh School in Bracknell, where he completed his A-levels in Summer 2011.
Having completed his A level exams, he went on to study Economics at the University of Bristol whilst continuing his entrepreneurial activities.
[8][9] Gare created the Emoji application for iOS in February 2010, which altered the Settings app to allow access to the emoji keyboard.
[11] The only way to access the emoji keyboard in iOS was to use Gare's Emoji app, up until Apple made the keyboard available to those outside of Japan in iOS version 5.0.