The way Apple's emoji font works has seen an upgrade in recent times, with new functionality paving the way for more emoji combinations than ever. iPhone users with the recent iOS 14.5 update might have noticed just how many new couples there are in the list. Most of these

Apple has released iOS 14.5 which brings new emojis such as heart on fire and a face in clouds to all iPhone and iPad users, as well as a vaccine-friendly redesign of the syringe emoji. Also new in this update are gender options for people with beards and numerous

Twitter appears to be teasing a brand new style for the Twemoji emoji set: one that would be a significant depature from their current flat designs. Shown with a highly detailed and realistic appearance, these updated graphics are closer in style to what can be seen in emoji sets from

We've looked TikTok previously, with a focus on creative ways people comment using emojis. What is less clear is how to use the 'hidden' or secret emojis available on the short video platform. These might be better called emotes, stickers or emoticons, but just as commonly people call them TikTok

To be clear, despite the date of publishing, this is not an April Fool's joke. There's a new top emoji in town. After years of dominance the laughing crying emoji has been dethroned as Twitter's top emoji. In its place today is another teary-eyed smiley: 😭 Loudly Crying Face. This is

Twitter has begun rollout of its latest emoji update which includes an updated version of the syringe emoji. The new syringe design comes as part of Twemoji 13.0.2 and aligns with changes announced by Apple and Google in recent weeks: blood contained within the barrel has been removed,

It’s been one year since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Strict preventative measures were introduced in many nations across the world, and usage of previously-uncommon emojis jumped exponentially as people took to Twitter to grapple with what was going on. What we see one year

Google's Gmail service was one of the first platforms with emoji support, dating back to 2008. However, the platform’s emoji support within browsers has been neglected over the last number of years. This means that emails viewed in the Gmail web interface don't properly display emoji skin tone and

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 of a hammer, and the removal of blood from the meat cleaver. Above: WeChat no longer shows

The 💉 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 meet the eye. Both require oversight from various committees, take years to approve, and these result in

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. Update: iOS 14.5 is out now and includes these emojis, and some additional non-standard additions. See which emojis

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. 😂 Face with Tears of Joy. More colloqueally known as the laughing crying emoji, this face found something so funny, a tear is being shed from each eye.

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 familiarity. Does the blue heart mean platonic love and the green heart represents jealousy? Is there a

Happy year of the 🐂 Ox! Or is that the 🐄 Cow or 🐃 Water Buffalo? Either way, there's an emoji for that. In 2021 Chinese New Year falls on February 12. This marks the end of Year of the Rat and the start of Year of the Ox. The order progresses as

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 changes across existing gesture and symbol emojis. Above: All the new emojis in JoyPixels 6.5. JoyPixels

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 Cleaning TikTok, Sea Shanty TikTok, or Musical Theatre TikTok the focus is usually on the video content,

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 of how time feels meaningless during a pandemic. According to the New York Times, Google saw an

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 tone of many couple emojis. These come as part of the December 2020 Feature Drop announced last

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 2020. In the middle of a year where the 🦠 Microbe emoji saw a giant increase, a certain

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: 👶 Baby👼 Baby Angel🎅 Santa Claus🤶 Mrs. Claus🧑‍🎄 Mx Claus🧝 Elf🧝‍♂️ Man Elf🧝‍♀️ Woman Elf👪 Family🦌 Deer🍪 Cookie🥛 Glass of Milk🍷 Wine Glass🍴 Fork

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 – Emojipedia's emoji podcast – to share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities ahead for what arrives on your emoji keyboard. Listen now,

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 emoji support. Above: all of the new emojis featured in WhatsApp 2.20.206.24. Image: WhatsApp

You've heard of 🎅 Santa Claus and perhaps 🤶 Mrs. Claus, but how about 🧑‍🎄 Mx. Claus? As we approach the end of 2020, most major emoji vendors now support Emoji 13.0: the emoji update that included additions such as pinched fingers, smiling face with tear, people hugging, and bubble tea. Keen-eyed

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 🤌 Pinched Fingers, 🫂 People Hugging, and 🥲 Smiling Face with Tear. 117 emojis are new in this release, which