World Emoji Day falls annually on July 17, the date shown on the calendar emoji. Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World ...

And new emoji are on the way. A draft list of 164 emoji candidates is set for approval by the Unicode Consortium in September2025, which could bring the total to 3,954 emoji once officially released.

In a bid to promote inclusivity and challenge stereotypes, 10-year-old Teddy from Peppard, Oxfordshire, has initiated a campaign urging Apple to redesign its “nerd face” emoji.

Unicode 17.0 will be released later this year, but it typically takes Apple several months to design new emoji in its own style, so the emoji listed above will likely be available on the iPhone ...

Tap into your emoji keyboard, which is the smiley in the bottom left corner. 3. In the search bar, type the emoji you want to create, like "raven on a book." 4. Tap Create New Emoji.