Jeremy Burge

It's Valentine's Day [https://emojipedia.org/valentines-day/], which means we always see a number of heart emojis trending on Emojipedia. So how many emojis are there that include hearts? 29.[1] * 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-heart-shaped-eyes/] * 😘 Face Blowing a Kiss [https://emojipedia.org/

For years, different emoji sets have been causing problems in communicating a simple emotion. Send a grimace [https://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-6.0/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/] on iOS? Get a grin [https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/] everywhere else. Send a grin [https://emojipedia.org/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/face-with-rolling-eyes/] from a Galaxy? Get an

We could begin seeing fewer emojis in the world as Apple has begun cracking down on how its iconic emoji designs are used. Over the past few years, Apple has come to embrace its emojis as a fully-fledged part of its brand. Press releases [https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/

Slack users have long requested an update to Slack's emoji support. Now it's here, but there is a catch for some users. Reports of a gradual rollout of these new features have flooded into Emojipedia over the past few days,[1] and today this emoji support

Apple first added emoji support on the iPhone in 2008. Nearly a decade later these designs seem familiar as ever. At the time of Apple's first emoji release, iOS was known as iPhone OS and Apple's emoji keyboard first appeared in iPhone OS 2.2 in

HTC once had a custom emoji font that was up-to-date and gave HTC devices a distinct style. It appears those days are over. Back in 2015 HTC devices shipped with custom emoji designs that stood out from the pack. Using an icon-influenced design, some might say these were ahead of

An analysis of 6 billion emojis used over the past two years shows women continue to use more emojis than men, negative emoji use spikes over night, and Virgin Atlantic sees more positive emojis in its mentions than American Airlines. Assessing Twitter data between September 2015 and September 2017, Brandwatch

Unicode last night announced [http://blog.unicode.org/2017/12/unicode-emoji-110-beta.html] the beta version of next year's emoji release.[1] This beta release marks one step closer to toward a softball emoji [https://emojipedia.org/softball/], as well as a cupcake [https://emojipedia.org/cupcake/], redheads [https:

Apple today released iOS 11.2 which changes the appearance of emojis such as 🥃 Tumbler Glass [https://emojipedia.org/tumbler-glass/], 🐜 Ant [https://emojipedia.org/ant/] and ⚙️ Gear [https://emojipedia.org/gear/]. Arriving a month after the major emoji iOS emoji update of 2017 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-11-1-emoji-changelog/], this update

Google has updated its hamburger emoji after CEO Sundar Pichai last month said he would drop everything [https://blog.emojipedia.org/how-do-you-like-your-burger-emoji/] to address the previous design. The new burger design sees the cheese moved from its previous location at the bottom of the 🍔 Hamburger emoji [https://emojipedia.org/hamburger/

Looking for inspiration for emoji Christmas presents, or other holidays gifts? You've come to the right place. Cufflinks, books, phones: we've got quite a range. Originally the idea of an emoji gift guide seemed like a bit of a laugh, a play on the gift guide

Statistics revealed by Facebook today show the extent that emojis are used on their Messenger platform. While it might not be surprising to some that the vast majority of teens (13-18) use emojis on Messenger (92%), some may not have expected 77% of those aged 56-64 to use emojis.[1]

iPhone X brought with it a new feature called Animoji [https://emojipedia.org/animoji/]. Intended for use in messaging, it quickly spread to other uses that it seems Apple did not see coming. Dubbed Animoji Karaoke by Harry McCracken [https://www.fastcompany.com/40491818/i-invented-iphone-x-animoji-karaoke-youre-welcome-world] let's take a

Apple has confirmed a bug in iOS which causes "question mark boxes" to appear in place of the letter “i”. Users across the web are noticing tweets, messages, and other content showing a letter “A” followed by a question mark in a box. > Proof that my “I”

Even though other platforms such as Android and Windows added new emojis weeks or months ago, it's the iOS emoji updates that gets most people's attention. The additional attention given to the iOS emoji font likely stems from the wide availability of iOS 11.1 [https:

Unicode has announced four new draft emoji candidates for 2018: swan, badger, infinity symbol[1] and pirate flag [https://emojipedia.org/pirate-flag/]. These come as the result of decisions made at the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) meeting at Apple last week.[2] And don't worry redheads: your feedback

Apple today released iOS 11.1 featuring a total of 240 new emojis, as well as bunch of design changes to some old emoji favorites. Additions in iOS 11.1 include Giraffe [https://emojipedia.org/giraffe-face/], Face Vomiting [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-open-mouth-vomiting/],Genie [https://emojipedia.org/genie/],Sauropod (dinosaur) [https:

Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded to feedback [http://time.com/5001656/google-cheeseburger-emoji/] on the weekend about the ingredients in the Android burger emoji saying he will “drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday”. Specifically, Pichai was replying to a tweet from Thomas Baekdal [https://twitter.com/baekdal/

WhatsApp has replaced Apple's emoji set with a custom set of its own which has now rolled out to all Android users. For years, messaging app WhatsApp has relied upon Apple's emoji set to give users consistent emoji support across iOS, Android, and the web. Now

For those living outside of Japan, emojis have always been a static affair. Skype has animated emojis and Apple is bringing us "Animoji", but the rest of our emojis have tended to keep pretty still. When Apple first added emoji support to iOS, Japanese phones of the day

236 new emojis have arrived on Windows as Microsoft announced [https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/10/17/whats-new-windows-10-fall-creators-update/] the rollout of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update to all users from today. 🤩 Star-Struck [https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-star-eyes/], 🤯 Exploding Head [https://emojipedia.org/shocked-face-with-exploding-head/] and 🧐 Face With Monocle [https://emojipedia.org/

iOS 11.1 adds new emojis from Apple, including Giraffe [https://emojipedia.org/giraffe-face/],Face Vomiting [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-open-mouth-vomiting/],Genie [https://emojipedia.org/genie/],Sauropod (dinosaur) [https://emojipedia.org/sauropod/] and more [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/]. Update 2017-10-31: iOS 11.1 is out now for all iPhone users.

WhatsApp has today unveiled its own emoji set for the first time. Appearing in today's beta release of WhatsApp for Android, this new emoji set appears to be highly inspired by Apple's designs. Above: Some of the new WhatsApp emoji designs in the latest beta. After

Until now, Facebook has had two custom emoji sets: one for Facebook, and one for Messenger. Now there is only one. Or two, depending on how you're counting them. Facebook is replacing the custom Messenger emoji set [https://emojipedia.org/messenger/] with the platform-wide Facebook emoji set [https: