Apple is no stranger to creating an uproar with its emoji updates—remember the whole water pistol incident?—and in a new developer beta release of iOS 10.2, the next wave of emoji will finally ...

Google and Microsoft have already included Unicode 9.0 emoji in the OS updates they're releasing this fall, and Apple will presumably do the same when it's ready. Related Stories ...

Google, Apple, and others began pushing to get emoji included in Unicode as far back as 2007, but the current set wasn't actually implemented until the release of Unicode 6.0 in October 2010.

Apple on Thursday introduced its new racially diverse emoji, allowing users to cycle through various shades of white and brown to customize their emoji’s skin colors. Some rejoiced, with ...

Apple is just changing the design of an existing emoji. And it wouldn’t be the first company to make this particular change: On Microsoft devices, the pistol emoji looks like a toy ray-gun .

Apple has embraced emoji, too. With the release of iOS 9.1 and OS X 10.11.1, which added 184 new emoji symbols , Apple’s devices now feature every single emoji in the Unicode standard .

Apple rolled out the newest update for iPhones, iOS 16.4, ... Plus, how can you turn down a jellyfish emoji? Follow Brett Molina on Twitter: @brettmolina23. Featured Weekly Ad.

You’ll soon have more passive-aggressive ways to respond to your boss beyond a thumbs-up with the release of these new emoji. Apple revealed 31 new emoji designs on iOS along with the first iOS ...

Apple News+ subscribers who upgrade to iOS 26 can now access an all-new game, which Apple calls "Emoji Game." The idea is to solve puzzles by completing words and phrases with emoji characters.

When Apple released iOS 18.4 on March 31, and that update brought eight new emoji to all iPhones, including a sleepy smiley with bags under its eyes. That means there are over 3,000 emoji you can ...

Still, emoji are part of the Unicode standard, and there are only 3,782 as of version 15.1. For years, a consortium–of which Apple is a member–decided which new emoji should be included, and ...

Apple is going to let you use generative AI to make custom emoji and images, the company announced at WWDC 2024. Get ready for “Genmoji.” Skip to main content ...