Yearly, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that shall be coming to smartphones and different gadgets sooner or later, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji suggestions got here out [PDF].
Eight new emoji characters have been proposed, together with furry creature (like Bigfoot), distorted face, battle cloud, apple core, orca, trombone, landslide, and treasure chest. There are additionally pores and skin tone variations for a variety of current emoji like ballet dancer, folks with bunny ears, and other people wrestling.
The Unicode consortium created mockups of what the emoji would possibly appear to be, with the pictures shared by Emojipedia. You will need to observe that the Unicode Consortium solely comes up with the underlying emoji code, and Apple designers will create their very own model of every character within the Apple fashion when the Unicode 17 customary is finalized.
Unicode 17 will probably be accepted someday subsequent fall, although it can take Apple time to implement the brand new characters. We might see them round spring 2026 if Apple sticks with its typical emoji launch timeline.
In 2025, Apple will introduce the Unicode 16 characters, which had been accepted in September 2024. Unicode 16 emoji embrace face with luggage underneath eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter.
Apple final launched new emoji with the iOS 17.4 replace that was launched in March 2024. Characters added in iOS 17.4 embrace lime, an edible brown mushroom, a phoenix, a damaged chain, shaking head vertically (as in a “sure” nod), and shaking head horizontally (a “no” head shake).
With iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, Apple will debut Genmoji for gadgets that assist Apple Intelligence. Genmoji are a customizable model of emoji which can be generated primarily based on a phrase equipped by the person. Genmoji behave like emoji on Apple gadgets, however will not be cross-platform and do not show like emoji characters on Android gadgets.
