2025/2026 emoji could include a Big Foot-like creature, an apple core, a fight cloud, a treasure chest and others
A total of 164 new emoji characters could hit emoji keyboards late next year, with your iPhone expected to get them in an iOS 19 update.
Emojipedia highlighted the proposed emoji and their designs that the Unicode Consortium drafted as part of the Unicode 17.0 update. Unicode 17.0 should be approved by September of next year, meaning the new emoji characters will start appearing on emoji keyboards on devices in late 2025 and throughout 2026.
That’s just the way these things work. Approving international standards takes time, and then technology companies need to draw each approved emoji in their design.
For example, the new emoji characters (a shovel, an exhausted face and others) previewed in May 2024 as part of the previous Unicode 16.0 update have yet to grace iPhones. Apple probably won’t implement them until iOS 18.4 in March 2025.
The 2025/2026 emoji could bring a Big Foot-like creature
According to the draft, the new emoji candidates proposed for Unicode 17.0 include a distorted face, a fight cloud symbol (as seen in cartoons and comic books), a ballet dancer (with the dark skin tone modifier), an apple core, an orca (also known as a killer whale), a hairy creature (inspired by various global Big Foot-esque cryptids), a trombone, a landslide and a treasure chest.
Other changes include various skin tone sequences for the existing people with bunny ears and people wrestling emoji. Selecting a skin tone is a feature that some exiting emoji support, including the handshake emoji and various kiss, couple with heart and people holding hand emoji. If an emoji supports skit tone selection, touch and hold it on the emoji keyboard on your iPhone to pick a desired skin tone.
Companies like Apple and Samsung also offer generative AI features to create new emoji from brief descriptions. As part of the Apple Intelligence wave coming alongside iOS 18.2, a new Gemoji feature enables you to create personalized emoji with descriptive text prompts.
However, these are not real emoji characters in the sense that you can copy and paste them across text documents, use them online and share across platforms without issues. Basically, Genmoji is an AI image generator which creates emoji-like images, but they’re images, not standardized Unicode characters.
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