Keith Broni

Today Apple has officially debuted 8 new emoji designs within iOS 18.4, bringing the likes of a paint splatter, a harp, and a face with bags under its eyes to iPhones, iPads, and all other Apple devices across the world. Plus, Genmoji in the EU and a redesigned Syrian flag emoji.

Netflix’s "Adolescence" has gained global attention, not just for its story but for scenes exploring supposed hidden meanings in emojis. We examine how the show presents emoji use, question recent media claims about “secret codes,” and highlight how emoji repurposing isn’t new.

Today Apple has previewed its latest batch of Unicode emojis as part of the second iOS 18.4 beta.

This Sunday is the 59th annual Super Bowl, the biggest night of the American football calendar. This year's championship game is once again a showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles—so expect to see many football emojis this weekend.

Today, WhatsApp began rolling out its latest update for Android devices, version 2.25.1.75. This update introduces support for the Emoji 16.0 recommendations and revised a single flag emoji's design.

Yesterday iOS 18.2 was released, bringing with it the official launch of Apple's much-anticipated Genmoji feature. Social media users with eligible devices have been exploring the feature, with the creation of various new animal emoji designs seemingly first on the agenda.

Given recent events in Syria, Emojipedia has received many questions regarding when the country's emoji flag will be updated to reflect its new political leadership. Here we detail the process for an emoji flag's design being updated, referencing other related cases in recent years.

Today, to mark Cyber Monday, Emojipedia has launched a brand new feature within its Emoji Playground: the AI Emoji Generator. This free and easy-to-use tool will allow users to create custom emoji images for concepts not represented within our standard emoji keyboards.  Using our new AI Emoji Generator is simple:

Unicode has revealed which new emojis could be finding their way to our standard emoji keyboards late next year. These possible new emojis include a distorted smiley face, an orca, a treasure chest, several ballet dancers, and a Big Foot-inspired "hairy creature".

Earlier today Apple released their first developer beta for iOS 18.2, giving registered users their first hands-on experience with their new Genmoji image generation tool.

Today Google has officially unveiled its full-color designs for Unicode's latest approved emojis, which include a smiley face with bags under its eyes, a paint splatter, and a human fingerprint.

Today the latest emoji list will be released by the Unicode Consortium, with additions including a harp, a shovel, a splatter symbol, and a face with bags under its eyes.

X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.

Happy World Emoji Day 2024! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its eleventh year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration!

As part of World Emoji Day 2024 we here at Emojipedia have collaborated with the digital marketing platform Semrush's Academy and Gen Z copywriting agency Word Tonic to create the world's first Emoji Marketing Mini-Course.

Today, in celebration of our 11th annual World Emoji Day, we here at Emojipedia have launched a brand new section of our site: the Emoji Playground. Debuting with a selection of emoji quizzes alongside the Emoji Mashup Bot, the Playground will be our hub for emoji-based experiences.

Today, on World Emoji Day 2024, JoyPixels have released version 9.0 of their freemium emoji set. This new update contains support for Emoji 15.1, as well as a series of design changes including the majority of flag emojis.

A smiley face with bags under its eyes, a paint splatter, and a human fingerprint are among the new emoji concepts up for approval. Today, ahead of World Emoji Day 2024 (July 17), we here at Emojipedia have released our traditional sample designs for all the new emoji candidates.

First launched just one day before World Emoji Day, the original Emoji Mashup Bot has not been operational for over a year. Today, Emojipedia has debuted a means of exploring the bot's popular mashups of the Twemoji set.

In 2019 Emojipedia detailed a historic revelation: Docomo’s i-mode emojis from 20 years prior were not the first to exist. Now, in 2024, further digital excavations have led to the recreation of "emoji" designs that predate both Softbank’s 1997 emoji set and the ❤-enabled Pocket Bell pagers of 1995.

Today Apple has released its latest emoji update, introducing 118 new emojis including a phoenix, a lime, several gender-neutral family designs, and various direction-specific people emojis.

New emojis have arrived on iOS as part of the first iOS 17.4 beta. The new additions include a phoenix, a lime, smileys shaking their heads up and down, and a series of direction-specifying people emojis. Editor's Note: iOS 17.4 is out now. Read more about

Today Google has officially unveiled its full-color designs for Unicode's latest approved emojis, which include a phoenix, a lime, smileys shaking their heads up and down, and a series of direction-specifying people emojis.

Microsoft have begun to roll out their latest update to Windows 11, adding Emoji 15.0 support and debuting the glossy 3D Fluent designs in select applications.

Samsung has begun rolling out the latest version of its Android software layer, One UI 6.0. This update introduces a brand new visual style for the vast majority of Samsung's emoji designs, while also debuting support for Unicode's new 2023 emoji recommendations.