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CNET
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNET
iPhones Running iOS 26 Will Get These Emoji Next Year
The Unicode Consortium is a nonprofit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting software standards and data, and it also releases new emoji once a year. On July 17, also known as World Emoji Day, Unicode announced that the newest emoji will debut this September as part of Unicode 17.0. That means iPhones with iOS 26 and Android devices will get these emoji sometime next spring. Here are the new emoji you can expect to see later this year and on your device next year. Trombone Treasure chest Distorted face Hairy creature (Sasquatch) Fight cloud Apple core Orca Ballet dancers Landslide "These new emoji have long-standing symbolic meanings, are visually distinctive and contain multitudes of expression," the Unicode Consortium wrote online. These new emoji were proposed in November 2024. According to Unicode, the data files for these emoji will be made available this fall as part of Unicode 17.0. Then, the emoji will likely appear on your device in spring 2026. Emojipedia, an online encyclopedia of emoji managed by people who research emoji, announced on World Emoji Day that the distorted face emoji won the award for Most Anticipated Emoji 2025. In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter emoji. You can find those emoji now on your Android and iPhone devices, as well as across the internet. Correction, July 18: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of emoji that had been approved for the Unicode 17.0 update. Unicode has since confirmed that nine emoji have been approved, including the Landslide emoji. For more on emoji, here's all the emoji award winners for 2025, the favorite emoji among the CNET staff and how to decipher every emoji.
New York Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Meet the new slew of Emojis coming to iPhone with iOS 26 update
A new batch of emojis has been approved for iOS 26. Surprisingly enough, Apple or Google aren't the ones that decide which emojis come to your phone. That's the job of Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal character encoding system that ensures text and emoji appear consistently across platforms and devices. Advertisement Every year, the Unicode Consortium accepts suggestions for new emojis — and eight new ones have officially been selected for the next rollout. The new emojis that will grace keyboards in iOS 26 include: Trombone Treasure Chest Distorted Face Hairy Creature Fight Cloud Apple Core Orca Ballet Dancers Landslide Advertisement The new emojis that will be available iOS 26. Unicode Consortium 'These new emojis have long-standing symbolic meanings, are visually distinctive, and contain multitudes of expression,' Unicode said in the announcement. For example, the 'hairy creature' is reportedly inspired by various 'Big Foot'-esque creatures. Apple will ultimately adopt their own versions of the emoji designs before adding the new set to iOS 26, but Unicode published their renderings for users to get an idea. Advertisement However, it's unlikely iPhone users will see these new emojis in the first iteration of iOS 26. As 9to5Mac noted, Apple usually waits until a later update in the software cycle to add new emojis. For example, this year's new additions were part of iOS 18.4 — but it's not always that late in the cycle. New emojis could possibly be added in iOS 26.1 or 26.2 before the year ends.
CNET
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Get Ready for These New Emoji, Which Are Coming Out This Fall
The Unicode Consortium is a nonprofit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting software standards and data, and it also releases new emoji once a year. And on July 17, also known as World Emoji Day, Unicode announced that the newest emoji will debut this September as part of Unicode 17.0. Here are the new emoji you can expect to see later this year. Trombone Treasure chest Distorted face Hairy creature (Sasquatch) Fight cloud Apple core Orca Ballet dancers Landslide "These new emoji have long-standing symbolic meanings, are visually distinctive and contain multitudes of expression," the Unicode Consortium wrote online. These new emoji were proposed in November 2024. According to Unicode, the data files for these emoji will be made available this fall as part of Unicode 17.0. Then, the emoji will likely appear on your device in spring 2026. Emojipedia, an online encyclopedia of emoji managed by people who research emoji, announced on World Emoji Day that the distorted face emoji won the award for Most Anticipated Emoji 2025. In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter emoji. You can find those emoji now on your Android and iPhone devices, as well as across the internet. Correction, July 18: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of emoji that had been approved for the Unicode 17.0 update. Unicode has since confirmed that nine emoji have been approved, including the Landslide emoji. For more on emoji, here are all the emoji award winners for 2025, the favorite emoji among the CNET staff and how to decipher every emoji.
Forbes
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
These Are The 9 Emoji Coming To The iPhone, Including One You'll Use A Lot
National Emoji Day falls on July 17 each year. This year, the Unicode Consortium, which decides these things, has announced that Unicode 17.0 will include at least nine new emoji, coming soon. And there's one you might find very useful. Nine new emoji coming soon. The Unicode Consortium is 'the nonprofit behind the Unicode Standard—the foundation that, in short, ensures your text (and emoji!) work across all your devices, around the world. Every year, new characters including emoji are added to the Unicode Standard and after a lot of paperwork are added to your device of choice :),' it says. The New Emoji This year's crop includes a decent range of stuff. There's a great new smiley face, a mythical creature and a playful whale. Here's what to look out for. Note that when Apple releases its emoji, they will look different from this. And in the meantime, you can do create your own using Genmoji. There are four straightfoward emoji: trombone, apple core, ballet dancer and treasure chest. Simple to use: anything to do with music, referring to something that's rotten to the core, a chance to mention how lithe and nimble you are and the financial jackpot you hope to reach. Fight Cloud Then there are two cartoonish ones: a landslide of rocks falling down a cliff (as in, 'I'm going to win this election by a…' and what's called a fight cloud, that classic bubble of dust raised by a strenuous altercation, complete with stars and lightning bolts and lots of momentum. This is useful for when you want to tell a friend that the next time you see a certain person, you won't be friendly. Though, to be clear, there's no justification for actual violence, so get your aggression out with a tiny emoji instead. Hairy Creature Bigfoot And then my two favorites. First, what's described as a hairy creature but looks like nothing so much as Bigfoot, or the Yeti, or whatever you call that mythical beast. Apple will design something special for this, I suspect. Use it to pointedly refer to someone whom you just never see (since they started their new relationship, or whatever your beef is). The Best New Emoji Finally, what the Unicode Consortium calls 'Distorted Face' but which, for me, speaks to us all. Distorted Face Look at the red cheeks, pie-dish eyes, exasperated brows and open mouth. Honestly, I feel like this more often than I'd like to admit. I'm going to be using this a lot, whether to indicate why I'm not coming out tonight, thank you very much for asking, or explaining to my editor why I'm late with a deadline or just for some generalized feeling of ennui. Oh, emoji, you can be so eloquent. When Will We See Them? They could appear any time, but Apple tends not to put new emoji in the first version of its operating system, but it's possible we'll see them before the end of the year.
Hans India
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hans India
Bigfoot Joins the Next Emoji Lineup Arriving in 2026
On World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium has given emoji fans something to look forward to with a sneak peek at new designs coming next year in Unicode 17.0. Among the standout additions? Bigfoot — officially called the 'hairy creature.' The fresh batch includes fun new icons like an apple core, ballet dancers, a distorted face, a fight cloud, an orca, a treasure chest, and a trombone. Unicode's Erik Thompson confirmed the new emoji will 'likely' land on devices by spring 2026. Though that seems far off, designing and approving emoji is a surprisingly complex process. To celebrate World Emoji Day, Apple has launched an exclusive emoji word game for Apple News Plus subscribers. Emojipedia has also relaunched letting users track real-time emoji trends around the globe. This new set is bound to add extra fun to everyday messages — and Bigfoot might just become everyone's new favourite.
