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The 2026/2027 Emoji List Could Change This Week

The draft list of emoji recommendations for Emoji 18.0 may be revised this week. The Emoji Standard & Research Working Group (ESR) is recommending that Face With Squinting Eyes be replaced by a Cracking Face emoji.

Emoji Deep Dive

Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026

Just under eight years ago, we here at Emojipedia hypothesized that 2018 would be a year of emoji design convergence. Today, we look back at the major emoji updates made since early 2018, covering both design convergence and purposeful design divergence.

Twitter Emoji Updates

X Updates Its Iranian Flag Emoji Design

Earlier today, X (fka Twitter) updated its design for the 🇮🇷 Flag for Iran emoji within the official Twemoji GitHub. Proposing a historic design for the flag not previously used across emoji keyboards, this change would be the X's first emoji update since its 2024 revisions of the 🔫 Pistol emoji.

Unicode Emoji Update

Draft Emoji List for 2026/2027

As the new calendar year continues to unfold, let's review the latest list of proposed new emojis that could find their way to our standard emoji keyboards later in 2026. Possible new emojis include a squinting face, two new thumb sign gestures, a pickle, and a lighthouse.

JoyPixels Emoji Update

JoyPixels 10.0 Emoji Changelog

As well as debuting new emojis, the latest update to the JoyPixels freemium emoji set once again reimagines thousands of existing emoji designs - a hallmark trait of this vendor's updates.

Google Emoji Update

Google Debuts Emoji 17.0 Support

On the same day that Unicode 17.0 and Emoji 17.0 were formally approved, Google unveiled its designs for the latest set of new emojis within its Noto Color Emoji and Noto Emoji sets.

Unicode Emoji Update

What's New In Unicode 17.0

Today Unicode has officially confirmed the new emojis that will be finding their way to our emoji keyboards over the next year or so.

Thematic Emoji Guide

Corporate Characters: Emojis In The Digital Workplace

Emojis have long been considered casual, even sometimes chaotic internet conversation enhancers. But their growing presence in corporate and work-centered content and communications shows how they’re becoming a pivotal part of online professional expression.

Microsoft Emoji Updates

Windows 11 Now Supports Emoji 16.0

Late last week, Microsoft launched a new update for Windows 11, introducing support for 2024's Emoji 16.0 recommendations in both the 2D and 3D versions of the vendor's Fluent emoji design set.

Thematic Emoji Guide

Education Icons: Emojis For The Back-To-School Season

As students around the world open their books on a new academic year, they can look to a whole library of emojis to help them talk about their return to the classroom.

World Emoji Day

What's New On World Emoji Day 2025 🌎🥳📅

Happy World Emoji Day 2025! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its twelfth year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration! 🌎📅🥳

Emojipedia Features

Emojipedia Expands Into Stickers & Emotes

Today, on our twelfth annual World Emoji Day, Emojipedia is excited to unveil a new expansion into stickers and emotes.

World Emoji Day

What Is An Emoji In 2025?

At Emojipedia, there are no silly questions. Not “Why am I seeing so many 🚡 Aerial Tramway emojis on TikTok?” Or “What does this 👁️👄👁️ mean, and should I be scared?” Or even “What actually is an emoji?”

Emojipedia Features

Emojipedia Archives Now Fully Available In 19 Languages

A few years ago, Emojipedia began the process of translating our site. Today, on the twelfth annual World Emoji Day, that project is officially complete. All emoji entries and emoji information pages on Emojipedia can now be fully viewed in these languages.

Early Emoji Design History

Major Moments In Emoji History: 1995* to 2025

Yesterday, as part of our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations, we published a detailed history of the Twemoji emoji design set. Now, we’re discussing broader emoji history with Keith Houston, author of the newly released "Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji".

Emojipedia Features

Emojitracker Is Back

Today, as part of this year’s World Emoji Day celebrations, Emojipedia is pleased to announce the long-anticipated relaunch of the real-time emoji analysis site EmojiTracker.com.

Twitter Emoji Updates

A Timeline of Twemoji: 2014 - 2025

Twitter’s custom emoji set is just over a decade old, but it’s seen a lifetime’s worth of updates, upgrades, and major milestones, even before recent paradigm-rattling developments for the former “Bird App” led to two parallel versions of the set.

World Emoji Day

Lifetime Achievement Award: The 🫠 Melting Face Emoji

Today, as part of our annual World Emoji Awards ahead of World Emoji Day (July 17), we're proud to announce that the 🫠 Melting Face emoji is the youngest-ever winner of our coveted Lifetime Achievement Award. But that begs the question - why this emoji, and what exactly does it mean?

World Emoji Day

The Most Popular New Emoji of 2025 Is...

To kick off our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations ahead of the day itself on July 17, Emojipedia has analyzed which of the emojis approved in 2024 is now most popular, as part of the World Emoji Awards.

Apple Emoji Update

Hands On With iOS 26's Genmoji Mixes

Earlier this week, Apple unveiled iOS 26 and released its first developer beta. The beta introduces new options for Genmoji, including the ability to use emojis as prompts to create new "mixes".

Thematic Emoji Guide

Gen Z’s Chaotic, Ironic Emoji Swapping Meme

TikTok users are ditching “mainstream” emojis for often absurdist alternatives in meme-ified movements designed to confuse, amuse, and divide the in-group from the rest.

Early Emoji Design History

Docomo Emoji Set To Be Officially Discontinued

This week, it was announced that Docomo’s emoji designs will no longer appear on any of the Japanese mobile network’s devices. This marks the end of an emoji era that first began in 1999, even though the set hasn't been updated since 2013.

Emoji Of The Week

What Does The 🫡 Saluting Face Emoji Mean?

Want to find out what the Saluting Face emoji can mean? Read this week's Emoji of the Week, where we highlight emojis with layered lore, nuanced meanings, and personality beyond just their pixels.

Emoji Of The Week

What Does The 🤍 White Heart Emoji Mean?

Want to find out what the White Heart emoji can mean? Read this week's Emoji of the Week, where we highlight emojis with layered lore, nuanced meanings, and personality beyond just their pixels.

Samsung Emoji Update

Samsung One UI 7.0 Emoji Changelog

Samsung's latest version of its One UI 7.0 introduces support for Emoji 16.0 within Samsung's own native emoji design set.