To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete ...

So in October 1991, a few years after emoji characters were first thought of, Unicode released Version 1, which brought in scripts from languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Tibetan.

THOUSANDS of emojis are available to use for savvy texters from coloured love hearts, food and even a whole range of animals. One of the most popular is the range of monkey emojis – here is a… ...

As you can imagine, even those emoticons at the time were incredibly simple compared to the detailed characters we use now — and they weren’t widely popular outside of Japan until 2010, when ...

It turns out that emoticons are considered a symbol, so they can beef up your passwords and make them more secure in combination with letters and numbers. Here’s how.

In macOS 12 Monterey or earlier, go to > System Preferences > Keyboard, choose the Input Sources tab, and check “Show Input menu in menu bar”: Emoji & Symbols is one choice.

Apple has included a number of new emoji in the iOS 18.4 developer beta, with characters proposed by the Unicode Consortium in May 2024 finally making their way for use in Messages.