Unicode has revealed which new emojis could be finding their way to our standard emoji keyboards late next year. These possible new emojis include a distorted smiley face, an orca, a treasure chest, several ballet dancers, and a Big Foot-inspired "hairy creature".

Earlier today Apple released their first developer beta for iOS 18.2, giving registered users their first hands-on experience with their new Genmoji image generation tool.

Today Google has officially unveiled its full-color designs for Unicode's latest approved emojis, which include a smiley face with bags under its eyes, a paint splatter, and a human fingerprint.

Today the latest emoji list will be released by the Unicode Consortium, with additions including a harp, a shovel, a splatter symbol, and a face with bags under its eyes.

X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.

Happy World Emoji Day 2024! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its eleventh year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration!

As part of World Emoji Day 2024 we here at Emojipedia have collaborated with the digital marketing platform Semrush's Academy and Gen Z copywriting agency Word Tonic to create the world's first Emoji Marketing Mini-Course.

Today, in celebration of our 11th annual World Emoji Day, we here at Emojipedia have launched a brand new section of our site: the Emoji Playground. Debuting with a selection of emoji quizzes alongside the Emoji Mashup Bot, the Playground will be our hub for emoji-based experiences.

Today, on World Emoji Day 2024, JoyPixels have released version 9.0 of their freemium emoji set. This new update contains support for Emoji 15.1, as well as a series of design changes including the majority of flag emojis.

A smiley face with bags under its eyes, a paint splatter, and a human fingerprint are among the new emoji concepts up for approval. Today, ahead of World Emoji Day 2024 (July 17), we here at Emojipedia have released our traditional sample designs for all the new emoji candidates.

First launched just one day before World Emoji Day, the original Emoji Mashup Bot has not been operational for over a year. Today, Emojipedia has debuted a means of exploring the bot's popular mashups of the Twemoji set.

In 2019 Emojipedia detailed a historic revelation: Docomo’s i-mode emojis from 20 years prior were not the first to exist. Now, in 2024, further digital excavations have led to the recreation of emoji designs that predate both Softbank’s 1997 emoji set and the ❤-enabled Pocket Bell pagers of 1995.

Today Apple has released its latest emoji update, introducing 118 new emojis including a phoenix, a lime, several gender-neutral family designs, and various direction-specific people emojis.

New emojis have arrived on iOS as part of the first iOS 17.4 beta. The new additions include a phoenix, a lime, smileys shaking their heads up and down, and a series of direction-specifying people emojis. Editor's Note: iOS 17.4 is out now. Read more about

Today Google has officially unveiled its full-color designs for Unicode's latest approved emojis, which include a phoenix, a lime, smileys shaking their heads up and down, and a series of direction-specifying people emojis.

Microsoft have begun to roll out their latest update to Windows 11, adding Emoji 15.0 support and debuting the glossy 3D Fluent designs in select applications.

Samsung has begun rolling out the latest version of its Android software layer, One UI 6.0. This update introduces a brand new visual style for the vast majority of Samsung's emoji designs, while also debuting support for Unicode's new 2023 emoji recommendations.

The latest list of emoji recommendations drafted by the Unicode Consortium - Emoji 15.1 - has been formally approved. This means that 118 new emojis should be arriving across our various digital devices over the next year or so.

JoyPixels have released version 8.0 of their freemium emoji set, introducing support for the 2022 emoji list including the 🩷 Pink Heart and 🫨 Shaking Face emojis. All of the 31 new emojis included in JoyPixels 8.0 are drawn from September 2022's Emoji 15.0 recommendations. Additionally, over

Happy World Emoji Day 2023 - our 10th annual World Emoji Day celebration and Emojipedia 10th birthday! 🌎📅🥳 Here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of the global 2023 celebration - our biggest yet! 🆕 New Emojis Emoji 15.1 is due for approval this

In the 10 years since Emojipedia first began documenting global emoji use back in 2013, we've seen many of the world's most well-known personalities become strongly associated with specific emojis, both fleetingly or substantially.

A Lime, a Head Shaking Vertically, and a Phoenix Bird emoji are amongst the draft emoji candidates up for approval by Unicode this September, as well as a selection of new direction-based people emojis. Ahead of World Emoji Day 2023, we here at Emojipedia have created sample designs for the

We here at Emojipedia are excited to announce a new site redesign as part of our 10th annual World Emoji Day celebrations and our site's 10th anniversary. This redesign adds a host of new exploration features to our unrivaled archive of emoji info, as well as improving core existing features.

For the last 10 years, we here at Emojipedia have been providing the world with up-to-date and well-researched emoji information. In doing so, we've documented a large number of emoji-based viral moments - here are our 10 most memorable.