The winner for the Most Popular New Emoji in 2024 was the head shaking horizontally (🙂‍↔️) followed by the head shaking vertically (🙂‍↕️) and the phoenix (🐦‍🔥). The winner of the Most Anticipated ...

W hen Apple released iOS 18.4 on March 31, the update introduced a handful of new features, like a recipes section in Apple News and more controls in Control Center, to all iPhone ...

Emojipedia founder and Chief Emoji Officer Jeremy Burge has announced ... Additions to the “faces” category include a star-struck face, a face with a raised eyebrow (inspired by Stephen ...

and a tired-looking emoji with bags under its eyes-- honestly, same. Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

We last got new emoji in 2023's Unicode 15.1 update, though all of these designs were technically modifications of existing emoji rather than new characters—many emoji, most notably for skin and ...

One of the new emoji, however, a black and white eye in a talk bubble, has been confounding users since it was first spotted in a developer's preview last month. The symbol's purpose is now clear.

Today's proposal includes 51 emoji candidates [PDF], including flying saucer, shocked face with exploding head, face with open mouth vomiting, grinning face with star eyes, coconut, broccoli ...

The next emoji characters being considered include face with bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter. The Unicode Consortium today opened the beta ...

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