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 ...

Apple released its iOS 17.4 update for the iPhone on Tuesday. The update includes many new emoji, including a phoenix, shaking heads, and gender-neutral families. Take a look at the new emoji ...

According to Emojipedia, there are 3,790 emoji with more on the way. The current list of emoji include smileys, sports players, weather conditions and flags. But there's no emoji for a dog wearing ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

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. That’s the job of Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit ...

There are plenty of reasons to look forward to iOS 26 - the debut of Apple's new Liquid Glass design language, custom backgrounds for text conversations, and CarPlay upgrades - but we are here to give ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

It’s that time of year again! The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of new emoji that will likely be included in a version of iOS 18 later this year or early next year. It will be up to Apple ...

iOS 26.4 launched today as the latest iPhone update, and it includes eight brand new emoji for users. Here are all the new emoji in iOS 26.4. Eight new emoji added to iPhone in iOS 26.4 Every year, a ...