Meet the Next Batch of Emoji that You'll Be Using Next Year

Meet the 9 new emoji to help sum up 2026

It's no Bigfoot, but Cracked Smiling Face is sure to be a fan favorite. Internet, meet the nine brand new emoji that will be coming to your keyboards.The Emoji Standard and Research Working Group at the Unicode Consortium will soon introduce nine new emoji, and these additions are now being revealed ahead of World Emoji Day on July …

Meet the next batch of emoji that you'll be using next year

Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A preview of Emoji 18.0 reveals the final look of the next designs that will grace your phone. The new additions include a cracked face, a net with a handle, an eraser, and more. Emoji 18.0 also updates several existing designs. Getting tired of using the same old emojis in all of your messages? Well, you don’t have to worry about that. The Unicode Emoji Standard and Research Working Group is working…

9 new emoji coming in 2027, from pickles to meteors

Ahead of World Emoji Day, Unicode Emoji Subcommittee chair Jennifer Daniel has previewed nine designs headed for phones as part of Emoji 18.0, and not all of them are brand new. Some are...

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Apple’s Emoji 18.0 update will quietly fix years of cross-platform confusion

If you've ever sent what you thought was a clear butterfly emoji only for your friend to see something totally different, or used a cucumber when you really meant "I'm in a full-on pickle," Apple is about to make your iMessage life a lot smoother. The latest Unicode Emoji 18.0 release, heading to all capable Apple devices next spring, brings fresh symbols while standardizing old ones so everyone sees the exact same thing. Written by Jennifer Dan…