The submission window for Emoji 16.0 proposals will be open from April 4 through July 31, but Unicode will not process any new flag emoji proposals, the consortium said in a blog post Monday.

Flag emoji have been with us for nearly as long as we’ve had emoji on our cell phones. Originally, there were only 10 flags to choose from, a far cry from the bounty of flags available to us ...

The latest iOS 18.4 update quietly released eight new emojis for Apple devices: a tired-looking emoticon, a purple splatter, a harp, a shovel, a fingerprint, a tree, a flag and a radish — and ...