These New Emoji May Be Included in IOS 18 and Android 15

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Who doesn’t love new emojis? Of course, we all use the classics, but can you imagine digital life without Melting Face or Salute Face ? (I certainly can’t.) So, when you hear about new emojis in the works, it’s always good news.

Before we get too carried away, these emojis aren’t ready for prime time just yet. Instead, it turns out that the Unicode Consortium , the organization that maintains the Unicode standard, has published a short list of new emoji candidates for Unicode 16 . This list contains seven new emojis and one new flag. If approved, it will be included in the rest of the Unicode 16 standard in future versions of iOS and Android. In all likelihood, the iOS 18 version and the Android 15 version will receive the following emoji:

  • Face with bags under eyes

  • Fingerprint

  • leafless tree

  • Root vegetable

  • Harp

  • Shovel

  • spray

  • Flag: Sark

Among these eight, I think “face with bags under the eyes” will get the most use. Even the Unicode interpretation of emoji is fun, so I’m looking forward to seeing what the designers at Apple, Google, Samsung, and other companies do with it. As for Sark , it is a tiny, self-contained, car-free island located between England and France. I’m glad its population of 562 will soon have an emoji with their flag on it.

With these eight emoji coming soon to the Unicode 16 beta, it’s unclear when we’ll actually see them adopted on platforms like iOS and Android as well. The beta itself will last until July 2. The last time we received an emoji update was back in January: those of us on iOS received six new emoji with iOS 17.4 , including Horizontal Head Shake, Vertical Head Shake, Phoenix, Lime, ” Brown Mushroom” and Broken Chain. Truth be told, I’m not sure I’ve used any of them since they launched. (I guess I don’t shake my head enough.)

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