Emojis have become an essential part of our online communication, offering an easy way to express emotions and reactions.

When someone who usually texts with emojis suddenly goes cold—no faces, no punctuation softeners—the absence becomes its own ...

Sure, you use the Messages app to send along SMS and iMessages all day long. You know how to use Emoji’s, too, with a tap on the international keyboard button on your iPhone. I bet you even use ...

Last month, the Unicode Consortium, a group that oversees the way text is coded into computer-readable language, published a new draft proposal that outlined not just the addition of 37 new emoji ...

Further to an existing Emoji Kitchen feature within Gboard, Google’s first-party keyboard now appears to be highlighting or surfacing the emoji-laden sticker packs in the predictive text bar.

A team from the University of Michigan and Cornell University sifted through more than 200 million notes sourced from 1.6 ...

Apple has yet to adopt the Unicode 17 characters, which were officially revealed in July 2025. Unicode 17 emojis are set to come to iPhone with a future update to iOS 26, likely iOS 26.4 in March or ...

Four in 10 Americans believe a text feels naked without an emoji, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 Americans (aged 21+) revealed 41% of respondents believe a message needs to include an ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Next time you’re tempted to skip the smiley face or heart emoji in a text to your friend, think twice. New research suggests those tiny digital symbols could be doing serious work to ...