Here Are the Latest Emoji on Your Phone and the New Emoji to Expect Soon
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A "😃" or "❤️" are easy to understand, but how are "😩" and "😭" different, and what does it mean when someone sends you food emoji like "🍆" or "🍑"? Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective, depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends.
Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each different colored heart? Does the peach emoji actually mean fruit anymore? Here's how to figure out what all 3,790 emoji mean and what emoji could be next.
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Emojipedia is here to help
Emojipedia is an online encyclopedia of emoji managed by people who research emoji. The site sorts emoji into nine categories, including Smileys, People, Objects, Activity and more. Each category then breaks down emoji into further subsections. So if you click into Smileys, for example, you'll see sections like Smiling & Affectionate and Sleepy & Unwell.
If you click an individual emoji, Emojipedia will give you a brief description of that emoji. For example, here's what Emojipedia writes about the "✨" sparkles emoji:
"Commonly used to indicate various positive sentiments, including love, happiness, beauty, gratitude, and excitement, as well as newness or cleanliness.
May also be used as a form of ✨emphasis✨ or to convey sarcastic or mocking tones."
Emojipedia will also give you a list of other emoji that this particular emoji works well with. In the case of the "🎁" wrapped gift emoji, for example, Emojipedia's suggestions include the "🥳" partying face and the "🛒" shopping cart.
What's a text message without an emoji or two?
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Each Emojipedia entry also shows you the different artwork for each emoji across platforms, as well as how the artwork evolved. The emoji entry will also show you shortcodes and other names for each emoji, if applicable.
What are the most popular emoji?
You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are the most popular emoji as of mid-July. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might not be popular next month or around a holiday. Note that not all platforms support all the latest emoji, so they may not all appear on your device.
What are the latest emoji?
Emojipedia
In September, Google unveiled Emoji 16.0, which includes eight new emoji. Here are the new emoji.
Apple included these emoji with iOS 18.4 in March, and Samsung brought these emoji to some devices with One UI 7 in April and more devices since then. WhatsApp introduced these emoji to its app in January.
How often are new emoji added?
Unicode
Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Consortium is responsible for creating new emoji. The group approves new emoji once a year, usually in the fall, but those emoji might not land on your device until the following spring.
Unicode proposed nine new emoji in November, 2024, including a Sasquatch and an orca, and those emoji will debut as part of Unicode 17.0 this fall. Here are all the new emoji you will see on your device in the future.
Trombone
Treasure Chest
Distorted Face
Hairy Creature
Fight Cloud
Apple Core
Orca
Ballet Dancers
What about custom emoji, like Apple's Genmoji?
Apple unveiled its emoji generator, Genmoji, at WWDC 2024, and the tech giant included the feature in iOS 18.2. However, only people with an iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max or a device from the iPhone 16 lineup can access Genmoji for now.
If you can't use Genmoji and want to create your own custom emoji, Emojipedia is home to two custom emoji generators.
Emojipedia
First is Emojipedia's AI emoji generator. You can use this tool to create anything from a frog wearing a cowboy hat to a heart shaped pizza. You type your description of the emoji into the generator, and the tool will create an emoji based on your description. You can then download or copy your custom emoji to your clipboard and use it as a sticker across messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage. This emoji generator is free, but you can only generate three emoji per day so make sure you describe your emoji as much as possible so you don't waste one of your tries.
If you do run out of AI emoji generations for the day, you can also use the Emoji Mashup Bot, which combines two emoji from the Twemoji set. You can use this as many times as you want, but you can only choose up to 113 emoji to combine and they are all smileys. That means you can't be as creative in your creation as you might be in the AI emoji generator.
All this just for emoji?
Yeah, but wait there's more! Emojipedia also hosts the World Emoji Awards on World Emoji Day, July 17. Awards are given for things like Most Popular New Emoji and Most Anticipated Emoji. Winners are determined by popular vote on X, formerly known as Twitter, and any emoji approved the year prior are eligible to win.
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The winner of Most Popular New Emoji in 2025 and the Most 2025 Emoji was the face with bags under eyes. This emoji also won Most Anticipated Emoji for 2024, so the only award it has left to win is the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The distorted face emoji won for the Most Anticipated Emoji for 2025, and the melting face (🫠) emoji won the Lifetime Achievement Award. The melting face emoji is now the youngest emoji to receive that award, but face with bags under its eyes could dethrone it one day soon.
In 2024, the Most Popular New Emoji was the head shaking horizontally (🙂↔️).
For more, here are the latest approved emoji, how to react to messages with emoji on your iPhone and how to use emoji instead of comments in Google Docs.
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