Happy World Emoji Day 2026! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its thirteenth year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration! 🌎📅🥳 The 2026/2027 Emoji List Has Been
Today, as part of our thirteenth World Emoji Day's World Emoji Awards, we're delighted to announce that the 🔥 Fire emoji is the recipient of our annual Lifetime Achievement Award. It's a fitting choice, as few emojis have burned as consist…
Written by Professor Linda K. Kaye, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom.Almost two decades since their introduction to the wider world, emoji still seem as popular as ever. Additionally, there is no shortage of res…
Today is the thirteenth annual World Emoji Day, and ahead of the expected release of Emoji 18.0 in September of this year, we asked all of you to tell us which of the draft candidates you're most looking forward to using. Above: the latest
Plenty of people will swear blind they remember a seahorse emoji (small, curled tail, usually facing left). Reddit has threads on it, there's been several Tiktoks, and AI chatbots had started confidently stating it before having a bit of a
Happy World Emoji Day 2026! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its twelfth year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration! 🌎📅🥳 Today, as part of our 13th World Emoj…
We've spent a lot of time on this blog correcting the record on when the first emoji set actually shipped, and reporting on newly uncovered "proto-emoji" sets from Sharp and NEC devices that predate mobile phones entirely. Now there's a new…
For World Emoji Day and the 2026 World Cup finals, WhatsApp partnered with Adidas to update its ⚽ Soccer Ball emoji to match the official "Trionda" ball. While unusual, this isn't WhatsApp's first sponsored redesign, nor is it the first tim…
This week (July 17) marks our thirteenth annual World Emoji Day! To begin the celebrations, the team here at Emojipedia have analyzed which of the emojis approved in 2025 are the most popular new additions. This week (July 17) marks our thi…
Today JoyPixels has launched the latest update to their longstanding freemium emoji design set, debuting support for Emoji 17.0 as well as once again redesigning hundreds of existing emoji designs. A total of 163 new emoji designs make thei…
At this week's Android Show I/O Edition, Google previewed a 3D overhaul of their Noto Color Emoji set. Here, we detail what we currently know, consider this in the context of previous Google emoji updates, and compare the previewed designs
Samsung’s latest Android firmware, One UI 8.5, has begun rolling out globally. Included in this update is support for Unicode’s latest emoji recommendations and several revised emoji designs. The update also has a mismatched design for code…