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Gmailโ€™s Outdated Emoji Support

Gmailโ€™s Outdated Emoji Support

Google's Gmail service was one of the first platforms with emoji support, dating back to 2008. However, the platformโ€™s emoji support within browsers has been neglected over the last number of years.

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
7 min read
Smoking and Violence Removed from WeChat Emojis

Smoking and Violence Removed from WeChat Emojis

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

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
4 min read
Vaccine Emoji Comes to Life

Vaccine Emoji Comes to Life

The ๐Ÿ’‰ 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

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
8 min read
First Look: 217 New Emojis in iOS 14.5

First Look: 217 New Emojis in iOS 14.5

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. Also included

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
4 min read
Is the Laughing Crying Emoji Cancelled? Here's What We Know.

Is the Laughing Crying Emoji Cancelled? Here's What We Know.

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. ๐Ÿ˜‚ Face with Tears of Joy. More colloqueally known as the

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
6 min read
What Every Heart Emoji Really Means

What Every Heart Emoji Really Means

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

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
17 min read
Chinese New Year: There's an Emoji for That

Chinese New Year: There's an Emoji for That

Happy year of the ๐Ÿ‚ Ox! Or is that the ๐Ÿ„ Cow or ๐Ÿƒ Water Buffalo? Either way, there's an emoji for that. In 2021 Chinese New Year falls on February 12. This marks the end

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
6 min read
JoyPixels 6.5 Emoji Changelog

JoyPixels 6.5 Emoji Changelog

Today JoyPixels has releases the latest incarnation of its Unicode compliant emoji set: JoyPixels 6.5. New additions include a Face in Clouds and a Mending Heart, alongside the considerable number of design

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
4 min read
What Happens in the TikTok Comments

What Happens in the TikTok Comments

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

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
11 min read
Emoji Time is Meaningless

Emoji Time is Meaningless

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

  • Jane Solomon
    Jane Solomon
8 min read
Google Emoji 13.1 Changelog

Google Emoji 13.1 Changelog

Owners of Google's latest Pixel phones now have access to new 217 new emojis, including a face exhaling and a heart on fire, as well as options to mix and match the skin

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
5 min read
Emoji Trends That Defined 2020

Emoji Trends That Defined 2020

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

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
10 min read
Every Christmas Emoji

Every Christmas Emoji

There's a lot. Depending on exactly how broad you consider a Christmas emoji list to be, this is what we've come up with as of December 2020: ๐Ÿ‘ถ Baby๐Ÿ‘ผ Baby Angel๐ŸŽ… Santa Claus๐Ÿคถ Mrs.

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
2 min read
Meet the new Chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee

Meet the new Chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee

Jennifer Daniel leads emoji efforts at Google, and in 2020 became Chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. Jennifer joined me on the most recent episode of Emoji Wrap โ€“ Emojipedia's emoji podcast โ€“ย to share

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
2 min read
WhatsApp 2.20.206.24 Emoji Changelog

WhatsApp 2.20.206.24 Emoji Changelog

The latest version of WhatsApp for Android includes new emojis such as Smiling Face with Tear and Pinched Fingers. This follows an update in recent months where support was provided new gender neutral

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
4 min read
Who is Mx Claus?

Who is Mx Claus?

You've heard of ๐ŸŽ… Santa Claus and perhaps ๐Ÿคถ Mrs. Claus, but how about ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŽ„ Mx. Claus? As we approach the end of 2020, most major emoji vendors now support Emoji 13.0: the emoji update

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
5 min read
iOS 14.2 Emoji Changelog

iOS 14.2 Emoji Changelog

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

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
11 min read
Mask Wearing Emoji Now Smiles

Mask Wearing Emoji Now Smiles

Long used as an emoji to imply sickness, the mask-wearing emoji saw a revival in 2020 as one of the most popular emojis used in tweets about Coronavirus. But why does it have

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
5 min read
First Look: New Emojis in iOS 14.2

First Look: New Emojis in iOS 14.2

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. ๐Ÿšจ Update November 2020: iOS 14.2 has been

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
3 min read
217 New Emojis In Final List For 2021

217 New Emojis In Final List For 2021

217 new emojis have been approved and will come to devices throughout 2021. Additions include a heart on fire, face in the clouds, a woman with a beard, and new mixed skin tone

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
7 min read
Samsung One UI 2.5 Emoji Changelog

Samsung One UI 2.5 Emoji Changelog

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

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
7 min read
When are the 2020 Emojis Coming to iPhone?

When are the 2020 Emojis Coming to iPhone?

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

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
2 min read
Android 11.0 Emoji Changelog

Android 11.0 Emoji Changelog

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

  • Keith Broni
    Keith Broni
11 min read
Now Anyone Can Feed a Baby

Now Anyone Can Feed a Baby

In fall 2020, a new baby is coming to town. That baby is the swaddled and bottlefed bundle in Person Feeding Baby, and that town is your emoji keyboard. Above: Person, woman, and

  • Jane Solomon
    Jane Solomon
6 min read
Samsung Fixes U-V Emoji Mixup

Samsung Fixes U-V Emoji Mixup

For the longest time, Samsung phones had an emoji quirk that resulted in two emojis being mixed up. For the longest time, ๐Ÿ‡บ Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U appeared on Samsung phones as the

  • Jeremy Burge
    Jeremy Burge
2 min read
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