Squinting Face, Pickle, and Lighthouse Among New Emoji Coming to iOS

The Unicode Consortium has published a draught database of emoji that could travel to smartphones and different devices successful the future. The database shared by Emojipedia outlines 19 emoji candidates nether information for Emoji 18.0, which is expected to beryllium finalized successful September 2026.


Among the projected additions are a squinting look emoji, left- and right-pointing thumb gestures, a pickle, a lighthouse, a meteor, an eraser, and a nett with a handle. The draught database besides includes a monarch butterfly emoji, providing a much circumstantial alternate to the existing generic butterfly.

Along with the 9 caller emoji concepts, Emoji 18.0 would (if approved arsenic presently proposed) adhd 10 further tegument code variants tied to 2 of the basal emoji. This would bring the full fig of recommended emoji characters adjacent to 4,000.

Emojipedia has shared illustration artwork for galore of the candidates, but Apple designers volition request to make their ain mentation of each quality successful the Apple benignant if the emoji are yet approved. As with erstwhile draught lists, the projected lineup is not last and whitethorn alteration during Unicode's reappraisal process.

Apple volition request to rotation retired its ain versions of the caller emoji done bundle updates, truthful the caller characters would apt get connected iPhone successful precocious 2026 oregon aboriginal 2027, arsenic portion of iOS 27.

Apple has consistently adopted caller Unicode emoji successful past bundle releases, and antecedently announced Unicode 17 additions are expected to travel to Apple devices with the merchandise of iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, watchOS 26.4, and visionOS 26.4 successful March oregon April this year.
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