It’s been one year since the World Health Organisation declared [https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020] COVID-19 a global pandemic. Strict preventative measures were introduced in many nations across the world, and usage of previously-uncommon emojis jumped exponentially as people took to Twitter to grapple with what

Google's Gmail service was one of the first platforms with emoji support, dating back to 2008. However, the platform’s emoji support within browsers has been neglected over the last number of years. Update: ahead of World Emoji Day 2021, Google have announced [https://blog.google/products/android/

Popular Chinese messaging app WeChat has recently updated a number of emojis, including ditching the cigar from a smoking soldier. Other changes include a smiley face being hit by a frying pan instead of a hammer, and the removal of blood from the meat cleaver. Above: WeChat no longer shows

The 💉 Syringe [https://emojipedia.org/syringe/] emoji has been updated to remove the blood, allowing this existing emoji serve as a vaccination emoji in 2021. New emojis and new vaccines have more in common than might first meet the eye. Both require oversight from various committees, take years to approve,

New emojis have arrived on iOS as part of the latest iOS 14.5 beta. These include a heart on fire, exhaling face, and gender options for the people with beards. Update: iOS 14.5 is out now and includes these emojis, and some additional non-standard additions. See which emojis

It's long been both the most popular yet most hated face on the emoji keyboard. You already know which one I'm talking about. 😂 Face with Tears of Joy [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-tears-of-joy/]. More colloqueally known as the laughing crying emoji, this face found something so funny,

Questions about heart emojis are very common, and this makes a lot of sense. No-one wants to be accused of giving the wrong impression, nor step over some kind of line of emoji familiarity. Does the blue heart mean platonic love and the green heart represents jealousy? Is there a

Happy year of the 🐂 Ox [https://emojipedia.org/ox/]! Or is that the 🐄 Cow [https://emojipedia.org/cow/] or 🐃 Water Buffalo [https://emojipedia.org/water-buffalo/]? Either way, there's an emoji for that. In 2021 Chinese New Year [https://emojipedia.org/chinese-new-year/] falls on February 12. This marks the

Today JoyPixels has releases the latest incarnation of its Unicode compliant emoji set: JoyPixels 6.5. New additions include a Face in Clouds [https://emojipedia.org/face-in-clouds/] and a Mending Heart [https://emojipedia.org/mending-heart/], alongside the considerable number of design changes across existing gesture and symbol emojis. Above: All

Seen a funny video on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter recently? Chances are it's from TikTok. You're consuming TikTok content, but out of its natural habitat. No matter whether people are talking about Pool Cleaning TikTok [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-54080131], Sea Shanty TikTok

The pandemic may have warped our collective sense of time, but time has always been strange in the emoji world. Starting around April 2020, a cluster of articles popped up exploring the science of how time [https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-time-warp-what-day-is-it/] feels [https://www.vox.com/2020/5/7/

Owners of Google's latest Pixel phones now have access to new 217 new emojis, including a face exhaling [https://emojipedia.org/face-exhaling/] and a heart on fire [https://emojipedia.org/heart-on-fire/], as well as options to mix and match the skin tone of many couple emojis. These come

Emoji use continues to rise with over one in five tweets now containing at least one emoji. While more emojis are being used now than ever, the rate of growth has slowed in 2020. In the middle of a year where the 🦠 Microbe emoji [https://emojipedia.org/microbe/] saw a

There's a lot. Depending on exactly how broad you consider a Christmas emoji list [https://emojipedia.org/christmas/] to be, this is what we've come up with as of December 2020: * 👶 Baby [https://emojipedia.org/baby/] * 👼 Baby Angel [https://emojipedia.org/baby-angel/] * 🎅 Santa Claus [https://emojipedia.

Jennifer Daniel leads emoji efforts at Google [https://blog.google/inside-google/googlers/she-word/emo-gee-s-cool-job-meet-woman-who-designs-googles-emoji/] , and in 2020 became Chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. Jennifer joined me on the most recent episode of Emoji Wrap – Emojipedia's emoji podcast – to share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities ahead

The latest version of WhatsApp for Android includes new emojis such as Smiling Face with Tear [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-tear/] and Pinched Fingers [https://emojipedia.org/pinched-fingers/]. This follows an update in recent months where support was provided new gender neutral emoji support. Above: all of the new emojis featured

You've heard of 🎅 Santa Claus [https://emojipedia.org/santa-claus/] and perhaps 🤶 Mrs. Claus [https://emojipedia.org/mrs-claus/], but how about 🧑‍🎄 Mx. Claus [https://emojipedia.org/mx-claus/]? As we approach the end of 2020, most major emoji vendors now support Emoji 13.0 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.0/]: the

New emojis are now available for all iPhone and iPad users, with today's release of iOS 14.2. For the first time those on Apple platforms can now send new emojis such as 🤌 Pinched Fingers [https://emojipedia.org/pinched-fingers/], 🫂 People Hugging [https://emojipedia.org/people-hugging/], and 🥲 Smiling Face

Long used as an emoji to imply sickness, the mask-wearing emoji [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-medical-mask/] saw a revival in 2020 as one of the most popular emojis used in tweets about Coronavirus [https://blog.emojipedia.org/spread-of-the-coronavirus-emoji/]. But why does it have to look so...sick? If mask-wearing is to

The wait is nearly over for iOS users: bubble tea, a transgender flag, seal, feather and more emojis are included in the latest iOS beta. 🚨 Update November 2020: iOS 14.2 has been released to the public and here is what's new. [https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-14-2-emoji-changelog/] iOS

217 new emojis have been approved and will come to devices throughout 2021. Additions include a heart on fire [https://blog.emojipedia.org/117-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2020/], face in the clouds [https://emojipedia.org/face-in-clouds/], a woman with a beard [https://emojipedia.org/woman-beard/], and new mixed skin tone options for couples [https:

Samsung's Android software layer One UI now supports the latest emojis, for any devices setup to receive One UI version 2.5. Alongside 116 brand new emojis, this update includes a sizable number of design changes, with many of these being new gender neutral designs for previously-released people

The most frequent question asked of Emojipedia is when are the new emojis coming to iPhone? Answer: Not in iOS 14.0. Some of the more popular emojis coming to iOS in 2020 include emojis for Bubble Tea [https://emojipedia.org/bubble-tea/], Seal [https://emojipedia.org/seal/], Transgender Flag [https:

Google has today begun rolling out its latest OS update, Android 11.0. Included in this new release are 117 brand new emojis and a significant number of design changes, several of which are heavily inspired by popular designs of the past. Above: all 117 new emojis included in Android

In fall 2020, a new baby is coming to town. That baby is the swaddled and bottlefed bundle in Person Feeding Baby [https://emojipedia.org/person-feeding-baby/], and that town is your emoji keyboard. Above: Person, woman, and man bottle feeding baby. Images: Google.Unicode’s approval of Person Feeding Baby