The Unicode Consortium is a nonprofit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting software standards and data, and it also releases new emoji once a year. On July 17, also known as World Emoji Day,

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.

So while iOS 26 is coming soon, expect the new emoji to follow a few months later. Apple's UI refresh, iOS 26, is almost here. To mark the recently passed World Emoji Day on July 16, the Unicode Consortium has approved a fresh batch of emojis for the update.

Out of a list of more than 160 suggested additions, eight new emoji have been officially chosen for inclusion in an update to iOS 26.

In celebration of World Emoji Day on July 17, the Unicode Consortium previewed some of the new emoji that will be coming with Unicode 17.0.

Apple will roll out eight new emoji in a future iOS 26 update, as part of the Unicode 17.0 release. From an orca to a distorted face, here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming soon to your emoji keyboard.

Yesterday was World Emoji Day, and as Apple commemorated the occasion by releasing its new Emoji Game to iOS 18 users, the Unicode Consortium also shared

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.