Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji Day 🎉🎈🫶. World Emoji Day started in 2014. It's celebrated every year on July 17 ...

T he flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.

The release of a Sark flag emoji will be in April, as part of the iOS 18.4 update, Apple officials have confirmed. Requirements for an official flag as an emoji are different than for other icons ...

The inclusion of a new flag was notable because of Unicode Consortium’s flag policy — in 2022, it stopped producing new emojis for flags. “Sark flag emoji is crazy maybe a grand total of 3 ...

Most of the Unicode 16.0 emoji, by contrast, are their own unique characters. The one exception is the Sark flag emoji; flag sequences are created by placing two "regional indicator letters ...

With a wooden shaft, a red grip, and a silver spade, this shovel emoji is one of eight fresh drops in the iOS 18.4 emoji lineup. Literally speaking, we're all aware of what a shovel does: digging ...