The update includes many new emoji, including a phoenix, shaking heads, and gender-neutral families. Take a look at the new emoji available to you in iOS 17.4.

Emoji can be fun to use when texting friends and family, but you can only send so many laughing crying emoji before that emoji seems a little stale. If you're getting bored with the current emoji ...

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive ...

Illustrating the power of emoji An emoji that speaks for the tired masses is coming to little screens soon. One of eight new emoji set to debut late this year and into the next, an exhausted face ...

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. And on July 17, also known as World ...

“For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year-old Redditor wrote. “It’s super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs up,” they added.

Apple often uses new emoji as a draw to its new operating system early on — perhaps iOS 15.1 or so this year. The emoji have official names and descriptions, each with an example image supplied ...

Gen Z recently dubbed the thumbs-up emoji as “rude” and “hostile.” Getty Images/iStockphoto “For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year ...