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. Other inclusions on the draft list are consistent gender options for pregnancy and royalty, 'heart

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.

WhatsApp's latest betas releases includes a new flag emoji design: the Refugee Nation Flag. Based on a 2015 design by a Syrian refugee, the flag is an unofficial banner of displaced persons the world over. However, it is not currently recommended for emoji support by the Unicode's Emoji Subcommittee. Above:

It's a small but persistent emoji query: one that finds new life whenever there's a new development in the "stonks" discourse: why is the upward line on 📈 Chart Increasing displayed in the seemingly-counterintuitive color red? The answer to this question is actually quite simple, but is an excellent

Today Apple has released iOS 14.6, just a few weeks after unveiling a large number of new emojis in iOS 14.5. While today's update doesn't feature any further new emojis, it does update apperance of the people climbing emojis, and could well be the last Apple emoji update

Following their I/O 2021 keynote earlier today, Google release their first public beta for Android 12. Included within the beta are changes to hundreds of existing emoji designs, with a particular focus on food, drinks, objects, and nature. Above: a comparison of several emoji designs as they appear between

The emoji keyboard has been a mainstay across our phones and tablets for over a decade, but today it can be easily accessed across a broad range of devices. One such platform is Sony's PlayStation 5 gaming console. The PS5 features full emoji support via its own custom-designed emoji font.

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