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.

Unicode meets next week for UTC151: the quarterly Unicode Technical Committee meeting where upcoming proposals are discussed. On the emoji agenda this month are a number of new items, namely the Emoji 5.0 updates which contains the final 2017 emoji [https://blog.emojipedia.org/final-2017-emoji-list/] list. While the emoji

Samsung released a software update last week which included the return of three Japan-specific emojis that had previously been removed [http://emojipedia.org/samsung/galaxy-note-7-revised/removed/] by the South Korean company. Above: These emojis had previously been removed from Samsung phones. 🗾 Map of Japan [http://emojipedia.org/silhouette-of-japan/] is one

The Unicode Consortium [http://unicode.org] celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. The truth is that despite all the work Unicode does to ensure text from languages around the world work — most of us know Unicode as the group that approves new emojis. What might not be so clear is

EmojiOne[1] has today released [http://emojione.com/blog/introducing-emojione-v30-at] version 3.0 which includes a complete redesign of every emoji, support for all emojis approved in 2016, and updates to licensing terms. Previously distributed with a Creative Commons license, EmojiOne has moved to a freemium model in this latest

Apple has updated the appearance of the paella emoji on iOS to resemble the traditional version of the dish, from its home town of Valencia. The paella emoji, listed in Unicode as 🥘 Shallow Pan of Food [http://emojipedia.org/shallow-pan-of-food/], was originally approved as part of Unicode 9.0 [http:

Microsoft today released Windows 10 "Creators Update" which adds support for the rainbow flag [http://emojipedia.org/rainbow-flag/] emoji, gendered emojis, and professions from Emoji 4.0 [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-4.0/] which was released in November 2016. This update includes 482 new emojis, plus in a first

A question asked with frequency [https://twitter.com/search?q=black%20family%20emojis] online is why there aren't any emojis for black families. In fact, aside from redheads [https://blog.emojipedia.org/utc-provides-feedback-on-redhead-emoji/], emojis for black families are some of the most requested from Emojipedia users.[1] There

Last year, Samsung released an impressive emoji update [https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-biggest-ever-emoji-update/] which featured one puzzling addition: > Emojipedian @DHowett [https://twitter.com/DHowett] noticed something odd about this new emoji from Samsung. Can you spot it? https://t.co/47QKPgfOpG pic.twitter.com/NQtCwxFhk9 [https://t.co/NQtCwxFhk9]

After months of work aligning Unicode 10.0 [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-10.0/] code points with new features in Emoji 5.0 [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/], the 2017 emoji list [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/] is now final.[1] These include smileys, people, food, drink, flags, and for the

Samsung is due to release the Galaxy S8 on April 21, 2017. This release will include Samsung's own version of Android 7 "Nougat" which means new emojis. A total of 646 new emojis are present in this latest release, which includes all gender and skin tone