Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in ...

So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the same holds true with the Unicode 17 batch. There appear to be about nine ...

The Unicode Consortium this week published its Unicode 17 emoji recommendations. The Consortium has proposed eight new emoji ...

We’re still awaiting that wacky pack of emoji characters previewed in May. And we probably won’t actually see the ...

The Unicode Consortium has issued its latest collection of emoji you could be using on an iPhone in late 2025, including a ...

Emoji reactions now display correctly between Android and iPhone users. Emoji reactions sent from Android users no longer ...

A total of 164 emoji are proposed for 2025/2026, according to the Emojipedia blog. The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee has now ...

How I see it: On Android (and previous on iPhones) this depicts a hammer hitting a head. On iPhone, it's a frying pan with a ...

Credit: Kafka Ibram / Shutterstock Finally some good news for iPhone and Android users in the same group chat. Emoji reactions, or Tapbacks, now work properly between iPhone and Android messages.

IF you're bored of the current lot of iPhone emoji, there's a way to unlock an enormous trove of new icons. All it takes is a few seconds and you'll be able to use them whenever you want.

So here are the eight emojis I most want to see ported from WeChat to the general Android and iPhone emoji library, and how I'll twist them to my own dark purposes. Official name: [Hammer] How I ...