To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete three short phrases in as few moves as possible. The game is currently available to Apple News+ subscribers and can be found in the Puzzles section of the Apple News app, according to Apple.

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.

Today is World Emoji Day, and the Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of some of the new emoji that should hit your devices early next year as part of Unicode 17.0. If you ask me, it’s a promising batch, especially the Bigfoot emoji — sorry, “hairy creature.”

The tired looking smiley is easily one of my favorite emoji of all time.

On World Emoji Day, celebrated on July 17, we celebrate emojis in all their quirky, colorful glory. Love them or judge them, emojis have become a full-fledged language of their own. We use them to express joy 😂,

The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of emoji that will be in the Unicode 17.0 release, including Hairy Creature and Fight Cloud

Based on Emojipedia's site data, the winner of the Most 2025 Emoji and Most Popular New Emoji is the face with bags under eyes. And I'm not surprised. I mean, look at that beautiful emoji -- its expression says so much without any words.

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a selection of other fun new emoji options in Unicode 17.