This week, it was announced that Docomo’s emoji designs will no longer appear on any of the Japanese mobile network’s devices. This marks the end of an emoji era that first began in 1999, even though the set hasn't been updated since 2013.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Want to find out what the Saluting Face emoji can mean? Read this week's Emoji of the Week, where we highlight emojis with layered lore, nuanced meanings, and personality beyond just their pixels.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Want to find out what the White Heart emoji can mean? Read this week's Emoji of the Week, where we highlight emojis with layered lore, nuanced meanings, and personality beyond just their pixels.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Samsung's latest version of its One UI 7.0 introduces support for Emoji 16.0 within Samsung's own native emoji design set.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Happy World Emoji Day 2025! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its twelfth year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration! 🌎📅🥳| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Today, on our twelfth annual World Emoji Day, Emojipedia is excited to unveil a new expansion into stickers and emotes.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
At Emojipedia, there are no silly questions. Not “Why am I seeing so many 🚡 Aerial Tramway emojis on TikTok?” Or “What does this 👁️👄👁️ mean, and should I be scared?” Or even “What actually is an emoji?”| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
A few years ago, Emojipedia began the process of translating our site. Today, on the twelfth annual World Emoji Day, that project is officially complete. All emoji entries and emoji information pages on Emojipedia can now be fully viewed in these languages.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Yesterday, as part of our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations, we published a detailed history of the Twemoji emoji design set. Now, we’re discussing broader emoji history with Keith Houston, author of the newly released "Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji".| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Today, as part of this year’s World Emoji Day celebrations, Emojipedia is pleased to announce the long-anticipated relaunch of the real-time emoji analysis site EmojiTracker.com.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Twitter’s custom emoji set is just over a decade old, but it’s seen a lifetime’s worth of updates, upgrades, and major milestones, even before recent paradigm-rattling developments for the former “Bird App” led to two parallel versions of the set.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Today, as part of our annual World Emoji Awards ahead of World Emoji Day (July 17), we're proud to announce that the 🫠 Melting Face emoji is the youngest-ever winner of our coveted Lifetime Achievement Award. But that begs the question - why this emoji, and what exactly does it mean?| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
To kick off our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations ahead of the day itself on July 17, Emojipedia has analyzed which of the emojis approved in 2024 is now most popular, as part of the World Emoji Awards.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Earlier this week, Apple unveiled iOS 26 and released its first developer beta. The beta introduces new options for Genmoji, including the ability to use emojis as prompts to create new "mixes".| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
TikTok users are ditching “mainstream” emojis for often absurdist alternatives in meme-ified movements designed to confuse, amuse, and divide the in-group from the rest.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
As we observe the arrival of the Spring Equinox, emojis can help us make sense of the cosmos and channel our inner astrologers.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
The yearly nationwide basketball competition is just now heating up. These are the emojis you’ll likely see in the starting lineup.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Our personal new years are full of opportunities for emojis to help us celebrate our growth—and have some much-earned festive fun along the way.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Today Apple has previewed its latest batch of Unicode emojis as part of the second iOS 18.4 beta.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
It’s no stretch to say that emojis have transformed the way people interact on the internet, and in few other areas is that truer than in the world of online dating.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
We’re officially shedding the old and sinking our fangs into the Year of the Snake, which is why you might have seen the snake emoji surging in usage lately.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Many of us use emojis as playful, lighthearted emblems of self-expression sprinkled into our messages. But emojis can also communicate a sense of gravity, especially when they serve as stand-ins for and reactions to real-world geopolitical phenomena of global consequence.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
‘Tis the season when we unwrap those quintessential holiday emojis that have been patiently awaiting their annual re-emergence. Whatever you may be celebrating as this year draws to a close, there’s a whole host of emojis ready to help you express the festive spirit within.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
It’s that time of year when many of us gobble up some Thanksgiving grub and express our gratitude for the abundance in our lives. Saying thanks in the right way is a subtle art, but luckily the emoji library is brimming with options for showing how grateful we are.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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".| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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!| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
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.| Emojipedia
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.| Emojipedia
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.| Emojipedia
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.| Emojipedia
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 the official| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
On November 21, 2008 Apple released a free software update for iPhone users in Japan which contained Apple's first emoji font and keyboard. Ten years later, it's clear that this release paved the way for the widespread emoji support we see around the world today. Background When entering the Japanese| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
A Lime, a Head Shaking Vertically, and a Phoenix Bird emoji are amongst the draft emoji candidates up for approval by Unicode this September, as well as a selection of new direction-based people emojis. Ahead of World Emoji Day 2023, we here at Emojipedia have created sample designs for the| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
The latest list of emoji recommendations drafted by the Unicode Consortium - Emoji 15.1 - has been formally approved. This means that 118 new emojis should be arriving across our various digital devices over the next year or so.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
In the 10 years since Emojipedia first began documenting global emoji use back in 2013, we've seen many of the world's most well-known personalities become strongly associated with specific emojis, both fleetingly or substantially.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
For the last 10 years, we here at Emojipedia have been providing the world with up-to-date and well-researched emoji information. In doing so, we've documented a large number of emoji-based viral moments - here are our 10 most memorable.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
This day next week, Emojipedia will be celebrating two significant milestones: not only will we be hosting our 10th annual World Emoji Day, but July 17 2023 also marks ten years since Emojipedia's founding.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Emojipedia now includes the full set of highly-detailed glossy emoji sticker designs that debuted within various Twitter features throughout this year.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Today we here at Emojipedia have expanded the selection of languages that can be used to browse and search our site, bringing the total number of supported languages to nineteen.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
Today Samsung has officially begun rolling out their support for Android 13 via their One UI 5.0 update. This update introduces support not only for 2021 emoji recommendations such as the 🫠 Melting Face and 🫶 Heart Hands, but also emojis from the recent 2022 list.| Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News