Some iPhones can use Apple Intelligence to create fun, custom emoji, and the iOS 26 beta adds an upgrade to the feature.

How have we ignored the cherry emoji for so long? They are so very versatile. The ruby red cherries resemble a particularly juicy derrière. And, if butts aren't your bag, you can even use the cherries ...

There is no seahorse emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which oversees the standardized pictograms that can be transmitted as part of text communications, has yet to add the adorable sea critter to its ...

World Emoji Day falls annually on July 17, the date shown on the calendar emoji. Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji ...

Smiling at Gen Z? Better watch your back. What used to be the universal symbol of warmth and joy has taken a sinister turn — at least in the eyes of Gen Z. The classic smiley face emoji now means ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

Florie Hutchinson's crusade against emoji fashion started last year, on the heels of the presidential election and the 2017 Women's March. She'd been thinking about feminism, her three young daughters ...

When Shigetaka Kurita created the first emoji in 1999, he had to work within a grid measuring 12 by 12 pixels. That’s a total of 144 dots, or 18 bytes of data, meaning that the Japanese designer’s ...

If you’re that person in the WhatsApp groups with a sticker for every occasion, you’ll want to start playing with Gboard emoji combos. Emoji Kitchen lets you easily combine two standard emojis to ...

There's no seahorse emoji. While many Reddit users were temporarily convinced of its existence, a perfect example of the ...

Some iPhones can use Apple Intelligence to create fun, custom emoji, and the iOS 26 beta adds an upgrade to the feature. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast ...