Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

National Emoji Day falls on July 17 each year. This year, the Unicode Consortium, which decides these things, has announced that Unicode 17.0 will include at least nine new emoji, coming soon. And ...

Whether it's a cheeky wink or a grinning cowboy, it might seem like there is already an emoji for every possible situation.

A new batch of emojis have been approved for iOS 26. 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 ...

Genmoji is a play on two phrases: ‘emoji’ and ‘AI-generated.’ Simply put, in iOS 18.2 you can use Apple Intelligence to create new emoji in an instant. Open the emoji keyboard on your iPhone running ...

You know how you feel when you wake up exhausted? When you just know you have bags under your eyes? The next slew of emoji look likely to include a Smiley face that mirrors how you look and feel. New ...

From simple smiley faces and love hearts to high heels and rainbows, it seems like there is already an emoji for every possible situation. Now, iPhone users have even more designs to use. As part of ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Apple's iOS 18.4 update adds a new selection of emoji, enhancing expressive options for iPhone users with images that include a weary-looking face, a shovel and the flag of Sark. The software update, ...