Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Today, that tradition lives on in one of the most popular visual languages of the digital age: the emoji.

As part of the iOS 8.3 update for iPhone and iPad, Apple released over 300 new emojis to many texters delight. The new update features ethnically diverse emojis, same sex couples, international flags, ...

Emojis are basically the internet's way of speaking a language everyone understands. No matter where you're from, they just click. They bring feelings to life in a way plain text can't quite manage.

A new batch of emojis has been approved for iOS 26. Surprisingly enough, Apple or Google isn’t the ones that decide which emojis come to your phone. That’s the job of Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit ...

A repeating pattern of colorful emojis, including a treasure chest, orca, trombone, explosion, apple core, dancer, shocked face, mountain, and Bigfoot, arranged in a grid on a white background. - ...

The new emoji will be part of the Unicode 17.0 release, which is scheduled for this fall. They won’t be available when iOS 26 arrives in September, however. Since Apple adopts its own style for new ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day on July 17, the Unicode Consortium previewed some of the new emoji that will be coming with Unicode 17.0. Notably, Distorted Face is a popular emoji in Discord ...

To mark World Emoji Day, the consortium that decides on new emojis has unveiled a selection of which ones will be formally announced in September, and then come to devices starting at some point in ...