Don't expect to see new flags in your phone's emoji any time soon. The Unicode Consortium has warned it will "no longer accept proposals" for flag emoji, regardless of category. They're more trouble ...

With just two days before World Emoji Day on July 17th, Emojipedia has shared a list of draft characters the Unicode Consortium will consider for final inclusion in Unicode 14.0. The list includes ...

The icons that dominated our messaging in a very strange year.

Thanks to pressure from Apple, a new set of emojis will not contain a rifle. The Unicode Consortium -- the shadowy overlords who approve and code new emojis -- said Friday that a depiction of a scoped ...

Emojis may seem frivolous, but in their depictions of the world they reflect currents in society. It’s a lot of pressure for one little 👻 or 🐘, and discussions about the approval of new emojis are ...

Emoji don’t appear out of nowhere. They’re managed by a governing body of the internet known as the Unicode Consortium, which sets encoding standards for characters so that they appear mostly ...

Unicode is being updated to version 10, and is finally, officially including the bitcoin sign, along with the 56 new emoji seen in the picture below. Along with these major changes, Unicode 10.0.0 ...

Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7, including a face with bags under its eyes, splatter and a harp. The Unicode Consortium ...

The Unicode Consortium, the governing body in charge of the official emoji, has announced a bunch of new pictographs for version 12.0. As is usually the case, the final list is a hodgepodge of many ...

Ahead of World Emoji Day on Wednesday, July 17, Apple and Google announced plans to bring an expanded set of emoji to their respective platforms. Today, the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit ...

In July, the Unicode Technical Committee was a bit of a buzzkill: It announced that for now, it would not add a white-wine emoji to Unicode’s standard emoji mix. The meeting minutes noted that the UTC ...

According to a new report by 9to5Google, Google has refreshed its set of Android emoji from Unicode 13.1. Android 11 brought a batch of new emojis. Notably, Android 11 introduced 62 characters.