Jennifer Daniel leads the Unicode Consortium’s emoji subcommittee. She tells us how emojis are chosen and discusses their importance in the world of language. Language has been evolving for as long as ...

Here’s something you can text your friends about. It’s World Emoji Day, a completely made up, delightful, and, yes, annual chance to reflect on the thousands of symbols and smileys we’ve come to love, ...

You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the beginning ...

Emojis are so widely used now that it’s hard to imagine casual written text without emojis punctuating sentences and easily conveying tone. However, according to the language experts at Babbel, emojis ...

Some iPhones can use Apple Intelligence to create fun, custom emoji, and the iOS 26 beta adds an upgrade to the feature.

The Unicode Consortium approved the new 14.0 standard, which will feature 112 distinct emojis when skin tone variations are included. The Unicode Consortium yesterday (14 September) approved the ...

World Emoji Day was first celebrated in 2014. It was started by Jeremy Burge, the founder of Emojipedia, a website that explains what emojis mean. July 17 was chosen because that’s the date shown on ...

The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit body that decides which emojis appear across devices, has confirmed its next batch of ...

With the upcoming release of iOS 18 and advancements in AI technology, creating and using custom emojis on your iPhone has become easier than ever. The video below from iDeviceHelp walks us through ...

Do you think your phone is gender neutral? From Siri’s voice to emojis, Indian teens are learning gendered rules about what’s ...

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 ...