The Unicode Consortium has announced 8 new emojis that could arrive on iPhones with the upcoming iOS 26 update.

Based on Emojipedia's site data, the winner of the Most 2025 Emoji and Most Popular New Emoji is the face with bags under eyes. And I'm not surprised. I mean, look at that beautiful emoji -- its expression says so much without any words.

The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of emoji that will be in the Unicode 17.0 release, including Hairy Creature and Fight Cloud

To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete three short phrases in as few moves as possible. The game is currently available to Apple News+ subscribers and can be found in the Puzzles section of the Apple News app, according to Apple.

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall.

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a selection of other fun new emoji options in Unicode 17.

July 17th marks World Emoji Day. It's set to be a day full of smiles, but the cheesiest grin of all belongs to the Swiss.

July 17 is observed as World Emoji Day, a global celebration of those tiny digital symbols that say so much with so little. From joyful tears to hearts of every shade ❤️, emojis have become the universal language of the internet,