Today Apple has released its fourth developer beta for iOS 26.4, and in doing so has previewed brand new emojis from the 2025 list, including a distorted face, ballet dancers, an orca, and a treasure chest.

This beta update introduces a total of 163 new emoji designs to Apple’s keyboard.

Of these, 13 represent new emoji concepts, while the remaining 150 are skin tone sequences for the existing 🤼 People Wrestling and 👯 People With Bunny Ears emojis.

The completely new emoji concepts are as follows:

• 🫪 Distorted Face
• 🫯 Fight Cloud, as seen in cartoons and comic books
• 🧑‍🩰 Ballet Dancer (with full skin tone support)
• 🫍 Orca, also known as a "killer whale"
• 🫈 Hairy Creature, inspired by various global "Big Foot"-esque cryptids
• 🪊 Trombone
• 🛘 Landslide, represented as a series of rocks falling down a cliff
• 🪎 Treasure Chest

All of these new emojis are from Unicode's September 2025 list of recommendations: Emoji 17.0.

While today's revised beta release is the first to provide designs for Emoji 17.0's list of recommendations, these new emoji characters and sequences were given support within Apple's emoji keyboard in the first iOS 26.4 beta 3 (build 23E5223f), released on Monday 2 March.

They were also findable within the emoji keyboard's search functionality.

Despite Apple releasing a second version of iOS 26.4 beta 3 (23E5223k) several days after releasing their initial build , they did not debt the designs for these new emojis until today's release.

📶 Release

These updates are in the version of iOS 26.4 beta 4, which is now available for developers.

Based on past iOS beta history, the final public release of iOS 26.4 will likely come to users in late March or early April.

As with all beta software, designs are subject to change before the final release, as was seen most recently in the beta releases for iOS 15.4 and iOS 12.1.