Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in ...

Regardless, once you start creating custom emoji, you might find standard emoji feeling a bit limited in comparison. Apple is expected to release iOS 18.2 in early December.

Apple usually releases the new emoji in one of the mid-cycle updates. For example, iOS 17.4 in March introduced several new emoji, including a lime, phoenix, and shaking heads. It’s expected that the ...

Genmoji in iOS iOS 18.2 adds a practical solution to a common problem: not finding the right emoji. With Apple Intelligence ...

So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the same holds true with the Unicode 17 batch. There appear to be about nine ...

Tapbacks in iOS 18 scored some big upgrades from Apple, but there’s a key fix needed to keep them from overrunning certain ...

We’re still awaiting that wacky pack of emoji characters previewed in May. And we probably won’t actually see the ...

The Unicode Consortium has issued its latest collection of emoji you could be using on an iPhone in late 2025, including a ...

Once the new emoji are confirmed, Apple will need to release new versions of watchOS, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to support the new emojis. This is likely to occur early sometime around spring 2026 if ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Apple is preparing one of the most enticing iOS updates for early next month.

Here’s how it works. How does this relate to iOS 18.2 and Apple Intelligence? Well, eagle-eyed sleuths have noticed that the second developer beta of iOS 18.2 (which launched last week ...