Jeremy Burge

September has come and gone and brought us emoji news including the (leaked) announcement of Apple's Animoji, marketing firms attempting to win us over with emoji in bots, and some breaking news about Facebook discontinuing the Messenger emoji set. All of this can be found in the latest

iOS 11.0 was released to the public today, and it does not contain any emoji updates. Update: iOS 11.1 has new emojis [https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-emojis-in-ios-11-1/] and comes out late October or early November 2017. Apple has promised new emojis by the end of 2017 [https://blog.

Ever wished you could send a video message on iOS; but instead of your own face you look like an emoji? Animoji [https://emojipedia.org/animoji/] might be for you. Announced at the September 12 Apple Event[1], Animoji is a new feature included as part of iOS which sends

Leaked iOS firmware has revealed a new "animated emoji" feature coming to iOS 11 this month which changes appearance based on your facial expressions. Update: Animoji has been announced and here's what we know [https://blog.emojipedia.org/apples-new-animoji/]. 9to5Mac reports [https://9to5mac.com/2017/09/

The Emoji Wrap Podcast is back for season two! After a slight hiatus, we're back with a brand new episode [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com/episodes/e9356052/6-are-you-getting-eclipsed] looking at the latest emoji updates from Google and whatever is happening with Samsung. With special guest Florence Ion [https://blog.

Families with with skin tones from light to dark now have their own emojis on Facebook. 125 new emojis have been added to Facebook which allow black families to be represented in emoji form for the first time on the platform. For instance here is a father and son with

Here it is. The big one. Google has redesigned every emoji in the latest Android release and added all the latest emojis. T-Rex [https://emojipedia.org/t-rex/], Orange Heart [https://emojipedia.org/orange-heart/], Vomit Face [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-open-mouth-vomiting/] and Breastfeeding [https://emojipedia.org/breast-feeding/] are some of the new

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 done the work so you don't have to think

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 [http://emojipedia.org/pile-of-poo/]. The latest additions were announced [https://twitter.com/mark_e_davis/status/893252405881585664]

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 emojis are coming to iOS by the end of 2017. Additions include

In celebration of World Emoji Day [http://worldemojiday.com], Apple is today sharing a sneak peak [https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/07/apple-previews-new-emoji-coming-later-this-year/] at their new emojis for 2017. New emoji designs being previewed today include Woman with Headscarf [http://emojipedia.org/person-with-headscarf/], Bearded Person [http://emojipedia.org/bearded-person/

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 sent on Facebook look rather quaint by comparison. Above: On average over 5 billion emojis are sent

Happy World Emoji Day [http://worldemojiday] 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 up and see the Empire State Building lit up in emoji yellow [http://worldemojiday.com/

If you weren't aware, July 7 was considered World Chocolate Day. A day that beloved children's entertainer Cookie Monster [https://twitter.com/MeCookieMonster/] greatly approves of. Cookie Monster doesn't tweet a lot, but he did go out of his way to post a celebratory

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 Stop (.) * Windows Key + Semicolon (;) Typing either of these keyboard shortcuts will bring up an inline emoji picker,

Just last month Facebook extended its rollout [https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-emojis-now-showing-on-facebook/] 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 the test phase was a new emoji: * 🕴️‍♀️ Woman in Business Suit Levitating

EmojiOne today released [https://www.emojione.com/blog/introducing-unicode-100] an update which includes support for all the latest Emoji 5.0 [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/] additions. These include the new fantasy characters, additional smileys, food, animals, and more. Above: New smileys have been added to EmojiOne. Image: EmojiOne. Today&

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 updates from major vendors such as Apple [http://emojipedia.org/apple/], Google [http://emojipedia.org/google/], Microsoft

Facebook users now have access to the latest Emoji 5.0 [http://emojipedia.org/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, or further testing by Facebook. Some of the new additions

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); and a great deal of this is for emojis that have already been approved but aren'

A key feature that's new in Emoji 5.0 [http://emojipedia.org/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 [http://emojipedia.org/flag-for-texas-ustx/] and California [http://emojipedia.org/flag-for-california-usca/]), along

iOS includes a wide range of emojis — 2,373 at the time of writing — yet sometimes that's not enough. inTextMoji [http://intextmoji.com], a rebranding of the EmojiXPress app [https://www.emojixpress.com], is aiming to fill this gap with the latest release which includes a new way

Twitter has updated its custom emoji set with support for all of Emoji 5.0 [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/]. This means for the first time, users of Twitter.com will be able to use emojis such as Star-Struck [http://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-star-eyes/], Breast-Feeding [http://emojipedia.org/breast-feeding/], Orange Heart

💁 Sassy girl [http://emojipedia.org/information-desk-person/] peaked years ago but 🐶 dogs [http://emojipedia.org/dog-face/] are very in right now. We’ve added trends to Emojipedia! 📈📉 If you've ever wondered if the relevance of any emoji is on the incline or the decline, emoji trends will give you

Android's infamous blob emoji is dead. Having appeared in various shapes and sizes since Android 4.4 [http://emojipedia.org/google/android-4.4/]; the amorphous blob that defined Google's emoji appearance since 2013 is being retired. Update August 2017: Android 8.0 Oreo has been released.