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New emojis are headed to devices later this spring.

A mushroom, a phoenix and two new smileys are among the 118 new emojis coming to an iPhone near you, due for release in March or April.

The new emoji coming to your iPhone this year have been revealed. Among them are a lime, a phoenix, a broken metal chain, two shaking heads and four gender neural families.

Apple just seeded the first beta of iOS 17.4 to developers, giving the first look at emoji coming to iPhone. Europeans get more changes.

IOS 17.4 promises some major changes for iPhones, but it also brings some new emojis for users.

MacRumors points out that today’s beta release of iOS 17.4 with EU-required sideloading also includes several new emoji characters. A head shaking horizontally, a head shaking vertically, a phoenix, a lime, a brown mushroom, and a broken chain were approved by the Unicode Consortium last fall and published as part of Emoji 15.1.

For many Snapchat users, the mysterious phrase “blueberry” has been popping up in conversations and stories. It’s no surprise that people are wondering why this word is suddenly so popular. As it turns out, the term “blueberry” has become a way to express appreciation or agreement. Whether it’s used in response to a funny story, […]

In the digital age, some scientists argue the emojisphere should better represent Earth’s biosphere—tardigrades, flatworms and all

Emojis, ubiquitous in messaging, need more diversity when it comes to depicting animals, plants, fungi and other organisms to help spread ideas and information over social media, scientists say.

Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Bros.