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- New Emoji Interpreter: Decode Emoji Meanings in Messages
Emoji.ac now has an AI Emoji Interpreter that helps explain emoji meanings in text messages, social posts, and confusing emoji-only replies.
- New iOS 26.4 Emoji: Full List for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Apple iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS 26.4 add Emoji 17.0 support, including distorted face, orca, trombone, treasure chest, and more.
- Emoji 18.0 Candidates Preview 2026
Unicode is reviewing draft Emoji 18.0 candidates for 2026, including cracking face, thumb signs, monarch butterfly, pickle, lighthouse, meteor, eraser and net with handle.
- Bigfoot Gets an Emoji
The hairy creature emoji gives Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, and other cryptids an official Emoji 17.0 symbol.
- New Emoji 17.0 Characters Are Arriving
Emoji 17.0 adds distorted face, fight cloud, hairy creature, ballet dancer, orca, landslide, trombone, treasure chest, and expanded skin tone sequences.
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- What Are Skin Tone Emoji?
Skin tone emoji are modifier sequences that combine a human emoji with a skin tone modifier.
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- Emoji 17.0 15 Aug 2025
Emoji 17.0 added new emoji including distorted face, fight cloud, hairy creature, ballet dancer, orca, landslide, trombone and treasure chest, plus expanded skin tone variants.
- Emoji 16.0 25 Aug 2024
Emoji 16.0 added a small set of new emoji, including face with bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, splatter and the Sark flag.
- Emoji 15.1 28 Aug 2023
Emoji 15.1 was a sequence-focused update, adding direction-facing people, gender-neutral family sequences, phoenix, lime, brown mushroom, broken chain and head shaking emoji.
- Emoji 15.0 16 Aug 2022
Emoji 15.0 added new emoji including hearts, animals, plants, objects, food, music symbols, shaking face, pushing hands and black bird.
- Emoji 14.0 26 Aug 2021
Emoji 14.0 added new emoji, including new faces, hand gestures, objects, symbols and mixed skin tone handshake variants.