Jeremy Burge

We're pleased to announce that Emojipedia now has enabled HTTPS for all users. This means that all data sent between your phone or computer and Emojipedia is encrypted. It's not magic, but we've

67 new emojis have been listed as "draft candidates" for inclusion in the 2018 emoji set, including softball, mango, salt shaker, and a variation of the much-loved 💩 pile of poo emoji.

It's the emoji question we're asked the most, every single year: "When are the new emojis coming to iOS?" The short answer: this year. Apple has confirmed to Emojipedia that new

In celebration of World Emoji Day, Apple is today sharing a sneak peak at their new emojis for 2017. New emoji designs being previewed today include Woman with Headscarf, Bearded Person and Breastfeeding.

Facebook has released new statistics to coincide with World Emoji Day showing an average of 5 billion emojis sent each day on Messenger. This makes the otherwise-impressive figure of 60 million emojis being

Happy World Emoji Day fellow people of the internet. This is the fourth annual World Emoji Day held on July 17; with the first being back in 2014. This New Yorkers can look

If you weren't aware, July 7 was considered World Chocolate Day. A day that beloved children's entertainer Cookie Monster greatly approves of. Cookie Monster doesn't tweet a lot, but he did go out

Windows users: at last you have a great emoji picker, built right into your system. To access the emoji picker interface, press either of the following two shortcut combinations: Windows Key + Period / Full

Just last month Facebook extended its rollout of new emojis to most users. This has now extended to all users of the website and includes Facebook Mobile. One addition that went unnoticed during

EmojiOne today released an update which includes support for all the latest Emoji 5.0 additions. These include the new fantasy characters, additional smileys, food, animals, and more. Above: New smileys have been

The Unicode Consortium today released version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard. This means that the code points required for new emoji support are now considered final, and stable to be included in

Facebook users now have access to the latest Emoji 5.0 updates, with Emojipedia now seeing all new emojis on the website. It's not yet clear if this is considered a full release,

Over the course of the year, Emojipedia receives a considerable amount of feedback from our users. Some of this would be best directed to vendors (the appearance of specific emojis on specific platforms)

A key feature that's new in Emoji 5.0 is support for subdivision flags. This means that for the first time, vendors are now free to support US states flags (hello Texas and

iOS includes a wide range of emojis — 2,373 at the time of writing — yet sometimes that's not enough. inTextMoji, a rebranding of the EmojiXPress app, is aiming to fill this gap with

Twitter has updated its custom emoji set with support for all of Emoji 5.0. This means for the first time, users of Twitter.com will be able to use emojis such as

💁 Sassy girl peaked years ago but 🐶 dogs are very in right now. We’ve added trends to Emojipedia! 📈📉 Stats are from the impressive Google Trends which reflect when interest in any given emoji

Android's infamous blob emoji is dead. Having appeared in various shapes and sizes since Android 4.4; the amorphous blob that defined Google's emoji appearance since 2013 is being retired. In its place:

Unicode meets next week for UTC151: the quarterly Unicode Technical Committee meeting where upcoming proposals are discussed. On the emoji agenda this month are a number of new items, namely the Emoji 5.

Samsung released a software update last week which included the return of three Japan-specific emojis that had previously been removed by the South Korean company. Above: These emojis had previously been removed from

The Unicode Consortium celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. The truth is that despite all the work Unicode does to ensure text from languages around the world work — most of us know Unicode

EmojiOne[1] has today released version 3.0 which includes a complete redesign of every emoji, support for all emojis approved in 2016, and updates to licensing terms. Previously distributed with a Creative

Apple has updated the appearance of the paella emoji on iOS to resemble the traditional version of the dish, from its home town of Valencia. The paella emoji, listed in Unicode as 🥘 Shallow

Microsoft today released Windows 10 "Creators Update" which adds support for the rainbow flag emoji, gendered emojis, and professions from Emoji 4.0 which was released in November 2016. This update

A question asked with frequency online is why there aren't any emojis for black families. In fact, aside from redheads, emojis for black families are some of the most requested from Emojipedia users.