Released today, Windows 11 introduces over 250 emojis to Microsoft's flagship platform. However, as of today's release, Windows 11 continues to display emojis in Microsoft's previous thick-outlined style instead of debuting the much-previewed Fluent emoji redesign. Windows 11 introduces 255 emojis to Microsoft's OS: 138 from 2019's Emoji 12.1[

For World Emoji Day in July 2021, Microsoft announced that Windows 11 would introduce a completely new aesthetic to the platform's emoji designs. Dubbed the Fluent emoji set, these designs have been much-hyped ahead of today's Windows 11 release. Yet these are nowhere to be seen. Windows 11 is here,

Once merely a decorative set of stars indicating newness or cleanliness, the sparkles emoji has become the go-to markup for ✨emphasis✨, ✨sarcasm✨ or ✨mocking✨ on TikTok and other platforms. This emoji has been with us for over a decade, yet is now more popular than ever. Above: ✨ Sparkles emoji as

Two new emojis have been welcomed into the world: Pregnant Man and Pregnant Person. They join 🤰 Pregnant Woman, which has been an emoji since 2016. Released this week by the Unicode Consortium as part of Emoji 14.0, the new pregnancy options may be used for representation by trans men,

WhatsApp for Android's 2.21.16.20 release provided partial support for emojis from late 2020, such as Face in Clouds, Mending Heart, and Heart on Fire. The update did not, however, include the gender-specific Bearded Man or the various Kiss and Couple emoji combinations also recommended alongside these new

After years of their devices using Google’s Android emoji designs, LG have revived and expanded their own emoji set for select mobile devices. Yet despite its unexpected return, it is unlikely that the LG emoji set will see further future updates. Above: a selection of the emojis that made

Samsung's latest Android software layer One UI 3.1.1 has updated a handful of previously-available emojis, with these new designs also being made available to select devices running One UI 3.1. Samsung One UI 3.1.1 does not include any brand new emojis from late 2020's Emoji

First seen in July of this year, Facebook's latest emoji update is now available for a majority of users across the globe. The update includes over 200 brand new emojis, such as the Face with Spiral Eyes and 2021's Most Popular New Emoji, the Heart on Fire. Above: all the

With the uncertain and ongoing situation in Afghanistan right now, one question that arises with consistency at times like this relates to the flag. If the flag of Afghanistan changes: what happens to the emoji? The short version is this: Emoji flags are a placeholder for the current flag of

You might have already seen the news: Emojipedia is now a part of Zedge. What this means for you today is (🥁 drumroll please): Not a lot. The same team remains running Emojipedia, both in public roles and behind the scenes. Emojipedia will continue to be the emoji resource you know

Happy World Emoji Day! Held on July 17 every year, here’s our quick rundown on the day, and what has been announced this year. 🌎📅🥳 Why July 17th? It's all about the 📅 Calendar emoji: Q: Which came first? 👉July 17 on the 📅 Calendar emoji, or 👉 #WorldEmojiDay on July 17 A:

Google has shown off its latest emoji release, revising nearly 1,000 designs making them clearer at small sizes, more accurate, or more cross-platform compatible. Just in time for World Emoji Day, this overhaul continues efforts refine and improve the emoji set provided by Google for use on (non-Samsung) Android

Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Android users tired of missing out on the latest emoji releases? An announcement from Google today talks of bringing emoji update features into a popular app library, with the goal of ensuring more apps get new emoji support, sooner. There

For the first time, animated emoticons found in Skype and Microsoft Teams now appear alongside equivalent emojis from other platforms on Emojipedia. Released in time for World Emoji Day, this shows the ongoing effort to align Skype's emoticon set with the standardized Unicode-compatible emoji set. Animation isn't new to the

New emoji designs from Microsoft are being shown today as a preview ahead of World Emoji Day. These designs are a long way from the existing thick-outlined set currently available on Windows, which have proved contentious over the years. Details have been shared on the Microsoft Design blog, which includes

A saluting face, biting lip, coral and a low battery are among the emojis up for approval later in the year. These are currently draft candidates for the next emoji release versioned Emoji 14.0. Update: Emoji 14.0 is final as of September 2021. See the full list of

Global emoji use has reached an all-time high, with more than one in five tweets now containing an emoji. This has increased from an emoji in every six tweets in 2019, and one-in-ten tweets in 2014. This latest increase in emoji use comes in the same month as World Emoji

After England's football team lost the final of the European Championships last night, racist 'fans' flooded Bukayo Saka's Instagram comments with monkey emojis. You know how the rest goes. Moderation stuggles to keep up. Bad faith arguments ensue. Within hours the evidence is reported and removed. But then what? It's

Ahead of next week's World Emoji Day, JoyPixels has released a new version of their freemium emoji set: JoyPixels 6.6. This new update revises a large selection of previously released emoji designs, such as the syringe emoji. Above: a selection of updated emoji designs included in JoyPixels 6.6.

Earlier today Google revealed that Gboard's Emoji Kitchen feature would soon offer users suggestions based on the content of their messages. Soon after it was also discovered that the latest Gboard beta update brings back Google's beloved blob emojis in the form of Emoji Kitchen stickers. While several outlets reported

Earlier this month the popular Chinese social platforms Sina Weibo and WeChat both took their annual measures to disuade any commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. These measures once again included removing select emojis from their respective emoji keyboards, such as their [蜡烛] candle design. This annual censorsip of

Real-time emoji analysis website Emojitracker has now tracked over 35 billion tweets. Created by Matthew Rothenberg in 2013, Emojitracker launched just two weeks ahead of Emojipedia and supported all 842 emojis available as part of Unicode 6.0. 💫 Emojitracker launch: July 4, 2013📙 Emojipedia launch: July 17, 2013As of today,

Twitter has begun to rollout its latest emoji update, Twemoji 13.1. The update includes new emojis such as the heart on fire, the face in clouds, and large-scale skin tone support for couples and people kissing. Above: the 217 new emojis released in Twemoji 13.1. Notably, Twemoji 13.