WhatsApp has released new emojis for Android, along with design modifications for its native emoji set. The latest update means that WhatsApp users on Android now have access to both the 157 new

Emojipedia has a monthly newsletter containing emoji stories you might not have seen from around the web.Curated by me, Emojiepdia's Editor in Chief ("Chief Emoji Officer" is the more fun title for

A comprehensive list of emojis used at Christmas time, where they come from, and most importantly: how much cheer they spread on each platform. Both ⛄ Winter and 🎅 Christmas are well represented on the

As we saw in our Emojiology on 👻 Ghost, Halloween is downright haunted by emojis to mark the occasion. Close behind it, on the holiday front, is Christmas. From a 🎁 Gift under the 🎄 Christmas

As with most things Unicode-related, emoji flags are more complicated than they may first appear. With calls in recent years for emoji representation of the Aboriginal Australian flag, Transgender flag, Brittany flag, Kurdish

Facebook has confirmed its major emoji update for 2018 is now available for the majority of Facebook users. The release, of which some elements began to be surface in June, features 157 new

As many of us around the world move into the colder months of the year, we bundle up our emojis with scarves 🧣, coats 🧥, and gloves 🧤, prepared for the freezing snow ❄️ and icy winds

On November 21, 2008 Apple released a free software update for iPhone users in Japan which contained Apple's first emoji font and keyboard. Ten years later, it's clear that this release paved the

Apple's emoji font — Apple Color Emoji — is iconic. It wasn't the first emoji set in existance, but it is certainly the most recognizable. First debuting as part of iPhone OS 2.2 on

“I’ve been waiting forever for the ginger emoji and THIS is it?? Uh, hello? Redheads feel all the emotions, too.”Self-confessed “feisty redhead” Becca Watters on Twitter wrote about her frustration with

Emoji release schedules on various platforms has now spread out so far that Windows 10 is testing draft emoji candidates for 2019 at the same time that WhatsApp is releasing the new emojis

Twitter allows the ✳️ Eight-Spoked Asterisk emoji to be inserted into Twitter names and bios but not 🔷 Large Blue Diamond. Why? To prevent accounts from attempting to look verified when they are not.The

Is there a time of year that is better represented using emojis than Halloween?Saving you the time of scrolling through your emoji keyboard to find the best spooky emojis, I hereby present

While iOS users are awaiting the final release of iOS 12.1 with support for Emoji 11.0 (the 2018 emoji update); work continues on the 2019 release of the Unicode Standard.Today's

Apple has released a new version of its forthcoming bagel emoji. Now including cream-cheese, this aims to address concerns raised about the previous design.When Apple first released the new emoji support in

New changes on Twitter mean that for the first time each emoji counts as the same number of characters in a tweet. Previously 💁, 💁🏽, and 💁🏽‍♂️ would have used 2, 4, and 9 characters respectively.

Emoji design is one small area that a company can inject personality into otherwise similar-looking operating systems. I recently got my hands on a Fitbit Versa, and enjoyed taking a look at the

In this month's Emoji Wrap podcast Jason Snell joins me to discuss the new emojis coming to iOS in 2018, did Apple try and spoil Microsoft's big day, and what's got the New

Microsoft has added support for Emoji 11.0 in the latest update of Windows 10 known as the October 2018 Update. In addition to these new emojis, noteworthy modifications to earlier emoji designs