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Unicode 18.0 and Emoji 18.0 have been officially approved, recommending 19 new emojis 🆕✅

The now-official list introduces new additions like the Cracking Face, alongside three split-off designs that may already look familiar 👀

Read more 👇🔗
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A 3x3 grid displaying nine new Emoji 18.0 designs in Google's flat Noto Color Emoji style, including a Cracking Face, Leftward Thumb, Rightward Thumb, Monarch Butterfly, Pickle, Lighthouse, Meteor, Eraser, and Net With Handle.
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Unicode 18.0 and Emoji 18.0 have been officially approved, recommending 19 new emojis 🆕✅

The now-official list introduces new additions like the Cracking Face, alongside three split-off designs that may already look familiar 👀

Read more 👇🔗
blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in...
A 3x3 grid displaying nine new Emoji 18.0 designs in Google's flat Noto Color Emoji style, including a Cracking Face, Leftward Thumb, Rightward Thumb, Monarch Butterfly, Pickle, Lighthouse, Meteor, Eraser, and Net With Handle.
September 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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#OnThisDay in 2024, Unicode 16.0 was officially released 📝✅

This release added 8 new emojis: 🫩 🫟🫆🫜🪾🪉🪏🇨🇶

That same day, Google unveiled its full-color Noto Color Emoji support, making it available via Google Fonts 🎨🔡

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Google Noto Color Emoji designs for the eight Emoji 16.0 additions arranged in a grid: a face with bags under its eyes, a blue fingerprint, a purple splatter, a root vegetable, a leafless tree, a harp, a shovel, and the flag for Sark.
September 10, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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🍪 Cookie on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

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A side-by-side comparison of two Samsung Cookie emoji designs. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, two golden-brown square biscuits with scalloped edges and small perforations resemble saltine crackers (a design possibly inspired by South Korea's popular Haitai Ace crackers). On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, a single classic golden-brown circular chocolate chip cookie features visible dark chocolate morsels scattered across its surface.
September 9, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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✨ Sparkles on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

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A side-by-side comparison of two Samsung Sparkles emoji designs. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, a rounded square icon with a dark blue night-sky gradient features multiple detailed yellow and white starbursts with radiating light beams. On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, three solid golden-yellow, four-pointed stars shimmer isolated against the white backdrop, consisting of one large central star flanked by two smaller ones on the left.
September 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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😨 Fearful Face on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

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A side-by-side comparison of two Samsung Fearful Face emoji designs. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, a pale yellow face with a light blue forehead features huge, wide-open eyes, spiky blue shock tufts at the top, and a tight, jagged zigzag mouth. On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, a smooth yellow face has a soft blue gradient across its forehead, raised curved eyebrows, dark open eyes looking forward, and a small, worried open mouth.
September 7, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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😗 Kissing Face on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

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A side-by-side comparison of two Samsung Kissing Face emoji designs. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, a yellow face features closed downturned eyes, rosy blush cheeks, and prominent, glossy red lips slightly parted to reveal teeth. On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, a smooth yellow face has simple dark oval eyes looking forward and a small, stylized "3"-shaped pucker.
September 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Shady Characters × Because Language! I joined Daniel Midgley and Ben Ainslie recently to shoot the 💩 about emoji – there’s a taster at bsky.app/profile/bec... to see if it’s up your street, or you can dive into the full episode at shadycharacters.co.u.... Thanks to Daniel and Ben for having me on!
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Emoji in medical notes? Yep, they're going all kinds of places they never have before.

New live episode with Keith Houston, author of "Face With Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji".

Watch or listen to the whole thing:
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September 4, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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😱 Face Screaming in Fear on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

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A side-by-side comparison of two Samsung Face Screaming in Fear emoji designs. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, a pale yellow face features a blue forehead with white vertical stress lines, huge dark hollow eye sockets, an elongated open mouth, and a small white ghost emerging from the side of its jaw. On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, a yellow face pressed between two hands features a blue forehead gradient, large white glowing eyes, and a wide open "O" mouth, clearly inspired by Edvard Munch's The Scream.
September 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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#OnThisDay in 2019, Google rolled out Android 10 🤖📱

It brought Emoji 12.0 (e.g. 🥱🤍🤏🦩) and gender-neutral designs for most people emojis, returning to inclusive defaults after 2016's gendered designs moved away from the blobs.

Learn more 👇🔗
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Grid chart showing Google emoji designs from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2019 for five characters: person tipping hand, police officer, person gesturing NO, person getting haircut, and dancer. The styles evolve from 2012 black-and-white outlines to 2013 flat art, 2014 yellow blobs, 2016 female-presenting figures, and 2019 gender-neutral designs. A footnote notes the dancer remains female-presenting in 2019 as it was "deemed a gender pair with Man Dancing," with no gender-neutral code point in Emoji 12.0.
September 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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📱 Chinese mobile manufacturer Honor’s new native emoji set is now available on Emojipedia 😃📙

View the full list of supported emojis and our breakdown here 👇🔗
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A 5x5 grid displaying emoji designs from Honor's new native emoji set. The collection includes popular smileys and symbols such as a smiling face with hearts, heart hands, the 100-point symbol, a thinking face, party popper, dizzy face, melting face, blue heart, jack-o'-lantern, party face, new moon face, cat face, ghost, face screaming in fear, heart on fire, skull, pink heart, loudly crying face, flexed biceps, and a yawning face.
August 31, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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😲 Astonished Face on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

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A side-by-side comparison of Samsung Astonished Face emoji designs. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, an exaggerated yellow face features bulging asymmetrical eyes looking upper-right, a deep open mouth, and a red shock mark above its head. On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, a symmetrical yellow face has wide eyes looking forward, raised eyebrows, and a neat open "O" mouth.
September 2, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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😲 Astonished Face on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

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A side-by-side comparison of Samsung Astonished Face emoji designs. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, an exaggerated yellow face features bulging asymmetrical eyes looking upper-right, a deep open mouth, and a red shock mark above its head. On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, a symmetrical yellow face has wide eyes looking forward, raised eyebrows, and a neat open "O" mouth.
September 2, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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🥒 Cucumber Emoji (yes, not Pickle) in Noto Color Emoji vs Noto 3D #2016vs2026

(Noto designs are the default emojis on many Android devices)

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A side-by-side comparison of the Google Noto Color Emoji Cucumber emoji design from 2016 and 2026. The left side, labeled 2016 and set against a solid teal background, depicts a whole cucumber that is olive-drab in color with yellowish nubs, looking more like a pickle than a cucumber. The right side, labeled 2026 on a white background, shows a sliced cucumber in the new Noto 3D emoji style; a piece with sliced ends is propped up behind four individual round cucumber slices, which show pale flesh and greenish seeds.
September 1, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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📱 Chinese mobile manufacturer Honor’s new native emoji set is now available on Emojipedia 😃📙

View the full list of supported emojis and our breakdown here 👇🔗
blog.emojipedia.org/honor-emoji-...
A 5x5 grid displaying emoji designs from Honor's new native emoji set. The collection includes popular smileys and symbols such as a smiling face with hearts, heart hands, the 100-point symbol, a thinking face, party popper, dizzy face, melting face, blue heart, jack-o'-lantern, party face, new moon face, cat face, ghost, face screaming in fear, heart on fire, skull, pink heart, loudly crying face, flexed biceps, and a yawning face.
August 31, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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🙄 Face with Rolling Eyes on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

You’re seeing that right - a classic example of 2010s cross-platform emoji miscommunication 😬

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A side-by-side comparison of the Samsung Face with Rolling Eyes emoji. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, a yellow face looks upward to the upper left with a slight, mischievous smile and raised curved eyebrows. On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, a symmetrical yellow face features wide eyes rolling directly upward and a small, flat, neutral mouth.
August 30, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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😬 Grimacing Face on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

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A side-by-side comparison of the Samsung Grimacing Face emoji. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, an angry yellow face shows furrowed eyebrows, half-lidded narrow eyes, and a wide grimace with bared, clenched teeth. On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, a symmetrical yellow face features wide round dark eyes and a neutral, standard grimace displaying a grid of bared teeth.
August 29, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Support for Emoji 17.0 has begun rolling out on Windows 11 ahead of the 26H2 release later this year 🪟

The update also expands 3D emoji integration across more areas of the operating system, further replacing the 2D set 🎨

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The new Microsoft Fluent 3D emojis designs in Emoji 17.0, including the distorted face,, a fight cloud, ballet dancers in various skin tones, an orca, a Bigfoot-esque hairy creature, a trombone, a rockslide, a treasure chest, and various skin tone modifiers for wrestlers and people with bunny ears.
August 28, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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😭 Loudly Crying Face on Samsung devices #2016vs2026

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A side-by-side comparison of the Samsung Loudly Crying Face emoji. On the left, labeled 2016 on a purple background, a tilted yellow face shows extreme anguish with flushed cheeks, a downturned open mouth, and tears splashing wildly into a puddle underneath. On the right, labeled 2026 on a white background, a symmetrical yellow face features a simple open mouth and two thick blue streams of tears pouring straight down its cheeks.
August 27, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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#OnThisDay in 2018, Samsung launched Experience 9.5, debuting 157 new Emoji 11.0 designs📱

Highlights:
🥰 Smiling Face w/ 3 Hearts (showing 4 hearts!)
🥵 Hot Face, 🥶 Cold Face, & 🥺 Pleading Face
New hairstyles, animals, & 🦠 Microbe

Learn more 👇🔗
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A 5x5 grid of 25 new Samsung Experience 9.5 emoji designs against a white background, including a peacock, hot face, superhero, skateboard, smiling face with hearts, evil eye, toilet paper, lobster, pirate flag, and red gift envelope.
August 24, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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#OnThisDay in 2019, Samsung One UI 1.5 launched on the Galaxy Note 10, delivering 215 new emojis 📱

Highlights:
🤍 White Heart & 🤎 Brown Heart
🥱 Yawning Face & 🤏 Pinching Hand
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Various People Holding Hands
🧏 Expanded accessibility

Learn more 👇🔗
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A 4x4 grid displaying sixteen Samsung One UI 1.5 emoji designs on a white background, including a Service Dog, Pinching Hand, Brown Heart, Deaf Person, Sloth, Person Kneeling, Waffle, Woman in Manual Wheelchair, Drop of Blood, Red Square, Auto Rickshaw, and Yawning Face.
August 23, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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#OnTheDay in 2016, Google released Android 7.0 📱

🆕 Added 72 Unicode 9 emojis 🤳🥓
🏽 Added skin tone modifiers
👥 Human designs replacing "blobs" for people (a year before blobs vanished entirely)

Learn more 👇🔗
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Infographic highlighting aspects of Android 7.0 from 2016. It has 3 sections. Top: new emojis (laughing face, avocado, bacon, cowboy). Middle: fingers-crossed emoji in 3 skin tones. Bottom: comparisons of older "blob" emoji designs above new human designs for Police Officer, Dancer, faceplant, information desk person, family, and kissing couple.
August 22, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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#ICYMI: Google's Pixel 11 introduced "Noto 3D", transforming their emojis from flat gradients into volumetric designs📱✨

Several additional changes notably converge with Apple and Samsung's current designs 🖼️👀

Read our full breakdown here 👇🔗 blog.emojipedia.org/google-debut...
Side-by-side comparison grid displaying Google's flat "Noto Color Emoji" (Pixel 10 & Earlier) on the left next to the updated "Noto 3D Emoji" (Pixel 11) on the right. Examples include a grinning face, clown, cucumber, screaming face, hand covering mouth, jack-o'-lantern, pile of poop, rolling on the floor laughing face, skull, and wilted rose, showing the shift to textured, volumetric 3D designs.
August 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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#OnThisDay in 2017, Android 8.0 "Oreo" launched and ended an era 🍪

The chart below shows how Google's emoji style morphed from 2013 to 2017, replacing the beloved "blobs" with more standard smileys and people.

Learn more 👇🔗
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A grid showing the visual evolution of Google emoji designs across five Android versions: 4.3, 4.4, 5.0, 7.0, and 8.0. Columns show six different emojis (screaming face, kissing face, heart eyes, girl, police officer, and woman dancing) morphing from black and white figures in Android 4.3, through yellow "blob" shapes in Android 4.4 to 7.0, to standard smileys and human characters in Android 8.0.
August 21, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Google's Pixel 11 is here with a 3D overhaul to Noto Color Emoji📱✨

“Noto 3D” transforms the collection from flat gradients into volumetric designs, alongside numerous other design tweaks throughout the set.

View the entire update on Emojipedia 👇🔗 emojipedia.org/google/andro...
A grid of 36 Google Noto 3D emojis against a plain white background, featuring a wide variety of emojis rendered with volumetric depth and volumetric lighting. The selection includes many popular smileys (like Grinning Face, Face with Tears of Joy, Pleading Face), various hand gestures (such as Folded Hands, Thumbs Up), mythical creatures (like Merman, Bigfoot), and items (such as Taco, Strawberry, and a Treasure Chest).
August 20, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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#OnThisDay in 2022, Korean app Toss updated its emoji set to v1.3 🇰🇷

After aligning notably divergent designs with Unicode in March 2022, v1.3 re-added 14 of its non-RGI cultural & tech concepts using Private Use Area (PUA) characters.

Learn more 👇🔗
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A grid of 14 flat-style emoji designs from the Toss Face emoji set arranged in four rows against a plain white background. The top row features a digital calculator app, a white quadcopter drone, a skewer of sotteok-sotteok (rice cakes and sausages), and a smartphone on a wireless charging stand. The second row displays a golden-brown bungeo-ppang (fish-shaped pastry), a bowl of bibimbap topped with an egg, a wooden Hahoetal mask, and two wooden yut sticks from the game Yut Nori. The third row shows a musical note inside a circular progress ring, a red dokkaebi face with horns and fangs, a laptop displaying a video call screen with two avatars, and a gimbap roll with a cut slice. The bottom row features a ceramic pot and bowl filled with white makgeolli next to a green bottle of soju with a small shot glass.
August 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM