To animate an emoji, touch and hold the send button, then drag up to see it come to life. This only works on 10 emoji right now (try it on the smiley and kiss faces).

It depicts the Face with Party Horn and Party Hat emoji (🥳) bouncing and spinning around. It seems that when an animated version of a specific emoji is available, WhatsApp will share that one ...

Giphy is moving past just GIFs and getting into the business of everything animated. Starting today, the company is rolling out two new formats: Giphy Emoji and Giphy Text. The new features expand ...

It’s World Emoji Day — and a new batch of expressive characters will soon be coming to phones. Here's what to expect.

Besides animated emoji, there are other new features that WhatsApp has been working on. For example, the platform is experimenting with short video messages – another feature that already exists ...

We’ve found a brand new feature for the iPhone 8 called ‘Animoji’, which uses the 3D face sensors to create custom 3D animated emoji based on the expressions you make into the camera.

To celebrate the new smartphone taco emoji, Taco Bell is unleashing 600 custom taco GIFs into the world. The Irvine-based fast-food chain has created the #TacoEmojiEngine. If you tweet @TacoBell ...