With the release of iOS 11.3 today, Apple is making some minor adjustments to four emojis: 🦁 Lion Face, 💀 Skull, 🐻 Bear Face and 🐲 Dragon Face.

In a submission to the Unicode Consortium today, Apple has proposed a suite of new “accessibility emojis”. New emojis proposed include a guide dog, hearing aid, prosthetic limbs, as well as people using canes and different types of wheelchairs. Above: Some of the emojis being proposed by Apple. Image: Apple

😂 Face With Tears of Joy [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-tears-of-joy/] was used 6.6 billion times [https://twitter.com/TwitterData/status/673905956909133824] on Twitter in 2015, and has remained the most used emoji on just about every platform ever since. Apple listed [https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/03/face-with-tears-of-joy-most-popular-emoji/] Tears

Android users, if you still see empty boxes on your screen, that’s because the app you’re in probably isn’t using EmojiCompat [https://blog.emojipedia.org/fewer-empty-boxes-ahead-for-android-users/]. When Google launched Android 8.0 [https://emojipedia.org/google/android-8.0/] in August of 2017, it also introduced the EmojiCompat

With 157 new emojis arriving this year [https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/] we now look ahead to 2019. Which emojis have been most requested in the past 12 months? One of the most requested this year is the addition of a white heart emoji. This would complement the 🖤 Black Heart

You might have scrolled past this emoji—😪—and puzzled about what it means, exactly. Tucked in a column with 🤤 Drooling Face [https://emojipedia.org/drooling-face/] and 😵 Dizzy Face [https://emojipedia.org/dizzy-face/] , it's a smiley with closed eyes and a slack jaw. A blue droplet drips from the

Twitter has today released an update to their Twemoji emoji set. This update adds no new emojis, but does change the appearance of a number of designs. Versioned as Twemoji 2.5, this release brings a number of emojis closer to the designs used on other platforms. A number of

We heard you. We made some mistakes. And we are fixing them. The news of 157 new emojis in 2018 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/] came earlier this month and if it proved one thing: people are passionate about how their emojis look. Each year Emojipedia creates sample images [https:

157 new emojis [https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/] are coming in 2018, but two of these are already Unicode characters. What does it mean to be turned into an emoji? Included in the new 2018 emoji list [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-11.0/] is a chess pawn [https://emojipedia.org/black-chess-pawn/

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

Less cross-platform confusion is in our emoji futures, as Samsung’s 🙄 rolling eyes [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-rolling-eyes/] emoji will soon represent the disdain shown on other manufacturers’ devices instead of its current pleased, somewhat expectant expression. Additionally, 😱 Face Screaming in Fear [https://emojipedia.org/face-screaming-in-fear/] will look more Munch [https:

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”