Among the changes in iOS 18.4 are eight new emojis that first were revealed as part of the Unicode 16 Standard back last fall ...

The emojis are part of the Unicode 16 Standard that was released in September 2024. It often takes Apple several months to create artwork for new emoji characters that are approved, so it is no ...

Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible for creating new emoji. Unicode proposed nine new emoji in November ...

In version 7.0, Unicode also comes with documentation for 250 new emoji characters. Emojipedia has a list of the names chosen for the new emoji, which include “Wind Blowing Face”, “National Park”, ...

But users will also have a few other new options as well. It’s worth noting that emoji are created and approved by the Unicode Consortium, and then Apple and other companies design their own ...