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iOS 26 Emoji Will Include Bigfoot, Apple Core, Distorted Face, Fight Cloud and More

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In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall.

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Emoji characters that are coming include trombone, treasure chest, distorted face, hairy creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch), fight cloud, apple core, orca, landslide, and ballet dancers.

After Unicode 17 is released later this year, artists at Apple will begin creating new emoji characters in the Apple emoji style. It takes several months for Apple to introduce new emoji after a Unicode update, so we can expect to see these characters next spring.

Apple will add the emoji to an iOS 26 update next year, likely in iOS 26.4. Apple most recently added new emoji in iOS 18.4, an update that came out in late March.

iOS 18.4 introduced the Unicode 16 emoji, which included bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter.

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The Unicode Consortium releases Unicode updates on a yearly basis, adding new emoji characters each time. Anyone can submit an emoji proposal that the Consortium will consider.

Article Link: iOS 26 Emoji Will Include Bigfoot, Apple Core, Distorted Face, Fight Cloud and More
 
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They keep adding new ones while I don’t know the meaning of probably half of the old ones. And at this point I don’t want to know. :D I guess I am getting old
 
It seems like the criteria for adding emoji might need to be stricter...

Or am I mistaken in thinking that eventually we should reach a point where we say "Ok, the existing set is fine, there's no need for more new emojis this year?"

These emojis don't represent new concepts that didn't exist last year, or last decade, or last century...
 
What I dislike about having so many is that now if you want to include an emoji, you have to search for it.

I see no reason to use more than some emotions. Smiling, Sad and maybe a few others. Not thousands of them.
 
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