Unicode has released its first draft list for Emoji 19.0 with just five candidates, including a vulture, an orchid, an inukshuk and a pair of eyes looking right. If approved as-is, it would be the smallest Unicode emoji release ever. Here's what’s proposed and when you might see them.

On the same day that Unicode 18.0 and Emoji 18.0 have been formally approved, Google has released its designs for the latest set of new emojis in its classic Noto Color Emoji font as well as its monochrome Noto Emoji font.

Today the latest list of new emoji recommendations has been approved by the Unicode Consortium, confirming new additions such as the Cracking Face, the Pickle, the Meteor, the Lighthouse, and the Eraser.

Emojipedia's archive now includes the new emoji designs that made their debut on various devices from Chinese manufacturer Honor, following a major update to their MagicOS earlier this year.

Microsoft has begun rolling out Emoji 17.0 support to select users via a Windows 11 Release Preview update. Available now in select regions, the update previews features coming to Windows 11 version 26H2, with a full global rollout expected later this year.

Yesterday, Google officially released the Pixel 11 range, bringing a complete 3D overhaul of the Noto Color Emoji set. First previewed at Android I/O in May, "Noto 3D" also introduces a significant number of design changes beyond three-dimensional rendering.

Happy World Emoji Day 2026! 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! 🌎📅🥳

Today, as part of our 13th World Emoji Day's World Emoji Awards, we're delighted to announce that the 🔥 Fire emoji is the recipient of our annual Lifetime Achievement Award. It's a fitting choice, as few emojis have burned as consistently bright, for as long, or across as many contexts, as this one.

Almost two decades since their introduction to the wider world, emoji still seem as popular as ever. Additionally, there is no shortage of research that is being conducted to explore the psychology behind these fascinating digital pictrographs.

Today is the thirteenth annual World Emoji Day, and ahead of the expected release of Emoji 18.0 in September of this year, we asked all of you to tell us which of the draft candidates you're most looking forward to using.

Many swear they remember a seahorse emoji. Reddit, TikTok, and AI chatbots insist it exists. They’re wrong, but thanks to a brand-new discovery, maybe not entirely. This World Emoji Day 2026, let us explain the truth behind this Mandela effect and the emoji that actually existed.

We've spent a lot of time on this blog correcting the record on when the first emoji set was launched. Now there's a new thread to pull, and it isn't just another device from another manufacturer with another "proto-emoji" set: this 1988 manual explicitly refers to its icon set as emoji.

For World Emoji Day and the 2026 World Cup finals, WhatsApp partnered with Adidas to update its ⚽ Soccer Ball emoji to match the official "Trionda" ball. While unusual, this isn't WhatsApp's first sponsored redesign, nor is it the first time their emojis have diverged from standard designs.

This week (July 17) marks our thirteenth annual World Emoji Day! To begin the celebrations, the team here at Emojipedia have analyzed which of the emojis approved in 2025 are the most popular new additions.

Today JoyPixels has launched the latest update to their longstanding freemium emoji design set, debuting support for Emoji 17.0 as well as once again redesigning hundreds of existing emoji designs.

At this week's Android Show I/O Edition, Google previewed a 3D overhaul of their Noto Color Emoji set. Here, we detail what we currently know, consider this in the context of previous Google emoji updates, and compare the previewed designs to a similar emoji vendor update from recent years.

Samsung’s latest Android firmware, One UI 8.5, has begun rolling out globally. Included in this update is support for Unicode’s latest emoji recommendations and several revised emoji designs. The update also has a mismatched design for code point currently listed in the draft Emoji 18.0 list.

Today, as part of the public release of iOS 26.4, Apple has introduced designs for 163 new emojis, including a distorted face with bulging eyes, ballet dancers, a Bigfoot-inspired cryptid, an orca, and a treasure chest. The update also includes a revision to the Puerto Rican flag emoji.

Today Apple has released its fourth developer beta for iOS 26.4, and in doing so has previewed brand new emojis from the 2025 list, including a distorted face, ballet dancers, an orca, and a treasure chest.

Today, WhatsApp began rolling out its latest update for Android devices, version 2.26.8.72. This update introduces support for the Emoji 17.0 recommendations and revised a small number of already-available emojis' designs.

Today, Emojipedia officially expands our Emoji Sticker Generator with publicly available, user-generated stickers. Users can now directly contribute to the Sticker Archives first unveiled during World Emoji Day.

The draft list of emoji recommendations for Emoji 18.0 may be revised this week. The Emoji Standard & Research Working Group (ESR) is recommending that Face With Squinting Eyes be replaced by a Cracking Face emoji.

Just under eight years ago, we here at Emojipedia hypothesized that 2018 would be a year of emoji design convergence. Today, we look back at the major emoji updates made since early 2018, covering both design convergence and purposeful design divergence.

Earlier today, X (fka Twitter) updated its design for the 🇮🇷 Flag for Iran emoji within the official Twemoji GitHub. Proposing a historic design for the flag not previously used across emoji keyboards, this change would be the X's first emoji update since its 2024 revisions of the 🔫 Pistol emoji.

As the new calendar year continues to unfold, let's review the latest list of proposed new emojis that could find their way to our standard emoji keyboards later in 2026. Possible new emojis include a squinting face, two new thumb sign gestures, a pickle, and a lighthouse.