Emoji fans, rejoice! You are likely to get nine new emoji next year. In October, the Unicode Consortium proposed the new emoji for Unicode 18.0. One of those emoji is a pickle, which I think could replace the eggplant as the go-to emoji for male anatomy.
Am I being childish or prophetic? We’ll have to wait a while to find out. The Unicode Consortium still needs to approve these proposed emoji, and the organization usually approves emoji in September.
Here are the nine new emoji you could see on your device in 2027.
A cracking face.A leftward thumb sign gesture.A rightward thumb sign gesture.A monarch butterfly.A pickle.A lighthouse.A meteor.An eraser.A net with a handle.
The Unicode Consortium originally proposed a squinty face emoji but in January the Unicode Emoji Standard & Research Working Group recommended changing that emoji to a cracking face.
Once an emoji is approved, it’s up to companies like Apple
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