If you’re dealing with a smaller group of people—your kids, for example—it’s much easier to make sure everyone is on a platform that’s up to speed with the newest Unicode standards.

After this, each company that displays emoji on their devices has the opportunity to create their own version based on Unicode’s example. This is why emoji can look slightly different across ...

A new batch of emojis has been approved for iOS 26. Surprisingly enough, Apple or Google isn’t the ones that decide which emojis come to your phone. That’s the job of Unicode Consortium, a ...