Apple and Samsung have introduced new emoji with their latest updates, and Emojipedia provides a comprehensive guide to understanding emoji meanings, categories, and the latest additions, including tools for creating custom emojis and insights into emoji trends and awards.
Emojipedia has unveiled a preview of proposed emoji characters for 2025/2026, including a "hairy creature" inspired by Big Foot, a distorted face, and a fight cloud symbol. These emojis are expected to be part of iOS 19, set for release in late 2025 or early 2026. Meanwhile, iOS 18.2 beta introduces custom emoji generation, showcasing Apple's advancements in personalized emoji creation.
iPhone users can look forward to 118 new emojis, including a phoenix, shaking head, and gender-neutral families, as part of the upcoming iOS 17.4 release. The emojis, drawn from Unicode's September 2023 recommendations, also feature new foods and people emojis with direction-specific variations. The update aims to make digital discourse more inclusive, but has sparked controversy with the new family emojis being devoid of color. The editor-in-chief of Emojipedia believes that emojis are a powerful communication tool for self-expression.
Apple's iOS 17.4 beta introduces 118 new emoji, including a fiery phoenix, two head-shaking emoji, a lime slice, a mushroom, and a broken chain, with four non-gender-specifying family emoji and 108 direction-specifying people emoji. The update also changes the design of existing family emoji to a white-silhouette-on-gray-background look. Expected to roll out this spring, the beta brings a variety of new and updated emoji concepts to the iOS platform.
Emojipedia has announced that four gender-neutral family emoji, depicted as grey silhouettes, could be launched by the end of this year. The new emoji designs include a family with two adults and a child, a family with one adult and two children, a family with one adult and one child, and a family with two adults and two children. Additionally, there may be new faces, a phoenix, a lime, a brown mushroom, and a broken chain emoji coming to smartphones. Some platforms are expected to release these new emoji within a few months, with the majority of updates happening in the first half of 2024.
Emojipedia has provided a preview of potential new emoji coming in Emoji 15.1, which is expected to be available on Apple devices in spring 2024. The update includes over 100 existing emoji characters that may gain the ability to face the opposite direction. Some of the likely candidates for new emoji include a phoenix bird, brown mushroom, broken chain, lime, and different variations of head shaking emoji. The final list will be confirmed in September.
Apple's latest software update, iOS 16.4, includes new emoji such as a shaking-head smiley, animals like a donkey, moose, and goose, and additional heart colors. The new emoji came from Unicode's September 2022 recommendation list, Emoji 15.0, and can be downloaded now. The plain pink heart is one of the most sought-after emoji, according to Emojipedia.
Apple's iOS 16.4 update includes 31 new emoji, including a shaking-head smiley, animals like a donkey, moose, and a goose, and additional heart colors. The new emoji came from Unicode's September 2022 recommendation list, Emoji 15.0, and can be used by downloading the update. The plain pink heart is one of the most sought-after emoji, according to Emojipedia.
Apple's latest iOS 16.4 update includes 31 new emoji, such as a shaking-head smiley, animals like a donkey, moose, and a goose, and additional heart colors. The new emoji came from Unicode's September 2022 recommendation list, Emoji 15.0. The plain pink heart is one of the most requested emojis. The update also includes new features and bug fixes.