The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee reviews new submissions. Emoji, the silly little pictorials that fill digital communication, are a fun way to deliver a message for many people. But for those who want ...

Who decides what emojis get made? If you're wondering why it took all these years for the donkey emoji to become a thing, the decision is made by the information technology standard known as Unicode.

A new batch of emojis have been approved for iOS 26. 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 ...

The Unicode Consortium opened its beta review period for Unicode 16, which includes the all-new emojis coming with iOS 18 and Android 15, most likely at the beginning of next year. So far, the ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji recommendations came out [PDF ...

Although Shigetaka Kurita is often credited as the original emoji creator, the story is more complex and nuanced – and what better time to tell this story than following World Emoji Day, which takes ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...

Over the years, people have gotten so excited about new emojis arriving on the iPhone. However, 2025 seems to be breaking the trend for two reasons: One is for the smaller number of new emojis, while ...

Savannah is a technology journalist in Rochester, Minnesota. Her specialties include gaming, E ink, computer hardware, and smart homes. If her status is away, she can most likely be found paddling ...

There may be currently 3,782 emojis in the beloved Unicode library, yet a team of biologists has found its representation of the tree of life is significantly substandard. Scientists from Italy’s ...