Emojipedia has run the World Emoji Awards on World Emoji Day each year since 2017. These look at which new emojis are popular or most loved, by way of voting or statistics.It's

Apple has shown its new emoji collection for 2019 for the first time, in celebration of World Emoji Day.Approved earlier this year by the Unicode Consortium, the 2019 updates include a number

The Unicode Consortium today announced the possibility of color variations within the emoji character set, to be discussed at the forthcoming Technical Committee meeting. Until now, Unicode has taken the position that each

WhatsApp has released a number of changes to its emoji designs, in its third emoji update of the year. The update does not, however, introduce any of the new 2019 emojis to the

Today JoyPixels (formerly EmojiOne) has released its 5.0 update, featuring support for yawning face, pinching hand and other new Emoji 12.0 additions. Above: A selection of new emoji designs included in

Apple today announced a range of improvements to Memoji functionality including new customization options and integration of Memoji into the emoji keyboard.Coming to iOS 13 later this year, these Memoji updates allow

New emojis are now available for Windows users, including a flamingo, yawning face, pinching hand, as well as new colored shapes and a range of accessibility options. These new emojis are featured within

Google has today released their latest beta of Android Q. Available on a greater number of devices than any previous Android beta, the update includes a first look at new emojis such as

As clever as the explanation may be, the children’s game of tag is not short for touch and go. Something posh, or luxurious and stylish, isn’t so called because swankier cabins

Today Twitter has released Twemoji 12.0, bringing Emoji 12.0 support to its various platforms. The update comes hot on the heels of Unicode 12.0, meaning that Twitter are once again

Summary: No new emojis, two minor changes, and one almost imperceptible change in Apple's latest iOS release.iOS 12.2 is out now and here's what's new in the updates to Apple's emoji

Coming to Android this year: a third gender option for emojis such as Police Officer, Zombie, Person Facepalming, Construction Worker and People With Bunny Ears.Revealed by Google in a submission to the

Since updating the Emojipedia archives with the SoftBank emoji set from 1997, it's a good time to now show how this original set of 90 emojis released over two decades ago has a

Until now, Japanese phone carrier Docomo has most often been widely credited as the originator of what we know as emoji today. It turns out, that might not be the case, and today

WhatsApp has begun to roll out WhatsApp 2.19.62, an update to the messaging service which contains a selection of emoji design changes. Above: A selection of the changed emoji designs featured

The Unicode Consortium has today released version 12 of the Unicode Standard. The release includes 61 new emoji characters and 493 non-emoji characters.This follows last month's announcement of the final list of

Facebook Messenger has a new dark mode that can be activated by sending the 🌙 Crescent Moon emoji in any message thread.Once the 🌙 emoji has been sent, a message appears noting that Dark

In this month's Emoji Wrap podcast John Kelly (Senior Emoji Lexicographer at Emojipedia) joins me to discuss the latest emoji happenings.“Hot takes galore on the internet with the new emoji release, how

On Friday, February 22, the London Times ran an article on emojis that made many of us go 😂, 🙃, or 🤔 online. The Times emoji explainer is killing me. 🍆 🍑 🔥 pic.twitter.com/uA8Th2Mc62— Latika

Earlier this month 230 new emojis were approved for release in 2019; but what about all the other requests?The number one emoji wanted by Emojipedia users is “happy tears”: an emoji to