
To mark World Emoji Day, the consortium that decides on new emojis has unveiled a selection of which ones will be formally announced in September, and then come to devices starting at some point in iOS 26.
Every year, the Unicode Consortium considers proposals for new emoji, and those proposals go through various stages before being ratified in September. This year, the Consortium has once more unveiled some future emoji, but also taken the further step of confirming these will all be included in its next official version of the standard.
It’s common for more than a hundred new emoji to be added at the conclusion of each year’s deliberations, and it’s likely that the same is true for 2025 into 2026. The Unicode Consortium, however, has announced only eight so far:
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