A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other approved emoji from Unicode 17.0 ...

But, in celebration of World Emoji Day — which is today and, yes, apparently a thing — Apple has given select iPhone users early access to its new game. Apple’s daily puzzle game Emoji Game is a daily ...

8 new emoji characters are coming to iOS 26, including an apple core, an orca, a treasure chest, ballet dancers, and Bigfoot.

Out of a list of more than 160 suggested additions, eight new emoji have been officially chosen for inclusion in an update to iOS 26.

Emoji characters that are coming include trombone, treasure chest, distorted face, hairy creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch), fight cloud, apple core, orca, landslide, and ballet dancers.

On Thursday, Apple introduced Emoji Game to Apple News+, a new game that joins the service’s offerings of word and number puzzles. Emoji Game is available to subscribers of News+ in the U.S. and ...

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 ...

World Emoji Day is celebrated on July 17 because that's the date shown on the calendar emoji.

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With iOS 26, Apple is now letting users combine multiple emojis to create new ones. The feature relies on Apple Intelligence, and uses the existing Genmoji feature to work.

So why does the calendar emoji sport that seemingly random July 17? It all goes back to 2002 when Apple held the Macworld Expo in New York. Once the company's premier publicity event, the yearly ...

Emoji are an important part of online communication, and the addition of new options often sets the trend for future additions. What Are the New Emoji in iOS 18.4?