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

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/

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

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

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_

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/

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

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:

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:

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-

💁 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