Apple has yet to adopt the Unicode 17 characters, which were officially revealed in July 2025. Unicode 17 emojis are set to ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

Apple is expected to introduce nine new emojis, such as a squinting smiley face, monarch butterfly, and pickle, with the iOS ...

One thing is clear: they’re not going away. Unicode continues to assess new emojis, and anyone can submit a proposal. Yet there are signs we have reached peak emoji; Forbes notes that emoji makers are ...