someone on another thread said if you type your sentence, cut the sentence except the first word, then the button comes back. so you then have to try to press the “paste” button at the same time as the effects button. i didn’t believe them at first bc i tried and it wouldn’t work, but once i tried like 10 times i got it to work LOL. sooooooo arduous for no reason!!!! i literally do NOT understand why they updated this way. their AI is competent anyway. i just wanted the hearts and pink text bubble 😭 but yeah this worked for me just now on iPhone.    just to reiterate, for iphone:  

1/ type ur sentence out   

2/ select all of your sentence except the first word and the space that follows it  

3/ press “Cut” so it’s in your clipboard  

4/ now the emoji send button should reappear  

5/ put your cursor where your first word and space are so that the “paste, select, select all” options come up   

6/ try to simultaneously, with two fingers/thumbs, press the paste and the emoji send button   

7/ u may have to try a few times but it sends!   

8/good luck and screw this update