Apple’s UI refresh, iOS 26, is almost here. To mark the recently passed World Emoji Day on July 16, the Unicode Consortium has approved a fresh batch of emojis for the update.
For context, the Unicode Consortium is a nonprofit that maintains the Unicode Standard, a universal character encoding system that ensures text and emoji appear consistently across all platforms and devices. In other words, it’s not Apple or Google that decides which emoji make the cut, but the Consortium itself. This time around, eight new emoji have been selected for Unicode 17.0.
The new additions are:
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