Neowin News Feed for: Emoji

Google Meet users on Google Workspace get extended emoji set, with some limitations

Paul Hill — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 07:16:01 +0000

Google Meet users on Google Workspace now have access to a greater range of emoji when reacting, however, there are some limitations to know about. Read more...

These new emojis are coming to a keyboard near you, thanks to Unicode 17.0

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:46:01 +0000

Get ready for some new emojis to land on your digital keyboards. The Unicode Standard has released its latest set of emojis under Unicode 17.0. Read more...

It's World Emoji Day and these are the 10 most popular emojis right now

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:00:01 +0000

Netizens are celebrating World Emoji Day in 2025, and here are some of the most popular emojis right now. Read more...

Latest Patch Tuesday has broken emoji search panel in Windows 10

Usama Jawad — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:34:01 +0000

The latest Patch Tuesday has caused a rather unexpected problem for many Windows 10 customers by breaking the emoji search panel. Read more...

Microsoft Teams gets threads and a rather weird new feature

Usama Jawad — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:40:02 +0000

Microsoft has finally brought a threaded view to channels, which works similar to Slack and Discord. There is also a rather weird enhancement related to the use of emoji. Read more...

Opera for Android 90 has a smarter Aria AI and more engaging bookmark folders

Paul Hill — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:10:01 +0000

Opera for Android 90 is now available with improvements to Aria AI and bookmark folders that can now have their own emoji. Read more...

Microsoft Teams Public Preview members can now try out custom emoji and reaction support

John Callaham — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:32:01 +0000

Members of the Microsoft Teams Public Preview program can try out the previously announced support for creating and using custom emoji and reactions in Teams chats for Windows, Mac, iOS and the web. Read more...

Some users can try out Google's 'Audio Emoji' feature for Google Phone app

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:06:01 +0000

Google is working on a new feature called Audio Emoji, which plays sound effects and animation for select emojis. It is available to limited users running the beta version of the Google Phone app. Read more...

WhatsApp launches upgraded race car emoji, sees double digit growth in the US

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:20:01 +0000

Whatsapp has given a makeover to its race car emoji ahead of the upcoming Grand Prix next month. The instant messaging app is also seeing significant growth in the US, according to Mark Zuckerberg. Read more...

Instagram reportedly working on animated emojis for DMs

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:16:01 +0000

A future update to Instagram might bring support for animated emojis in DMs. The Meta-owned social media giant is reportedly working on the feature, which is already available on Telegram since 2019. Read more...

Google Maps is getting collaborative lists, better transit navigation, emoji reactions

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:34:01 +0000

Google is bringing some new features to Google Maps. Users will be able to react to media and reviews using emojis, get better transit navigation, and create lists that multiple users can edit. Read more...

Google confirms emoji reactions are coming to Gmail later in October on mobile and desktop

John Callaham — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 17:56:01 +0000

Google has announced that later in October it will begin rolling out new emoji reaction features for personal Gmail accounts on both its mobile apps as well as on the desktop Gmail site. Read more...

Google Sheets gets emoji reactions for comments, new filters for Connected Sheets

Aditya Tiwari — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 04:46:01 +0000

Google has introduced emoji reactions for existing comments in Google Sheets. The feature which is already available on Google Docs has started rolling out for all users of Google Workspace. Read more...

Telegram Web gets a massive feature drop in celebration of its 10-year anniversary

Ishtiaqe Hanif — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:40:01 +0000

Telegram leaps a decade into the future with its Web App, jumping straight to v10 from v1. In celebration of its 10-year anniversary, it brings a boatload of features to its web app to bridge the gap. Read more...

Windows 11 finally gets the long-promised Fluent 3D Emoji

Taras Buria — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:04:01 +0000

The latest Windows 11 preview build from the Canary Channel finally delivers the long-promised and controversial Fluent 3D Emoji. The new variant replaces the flat version Microsoft shipped in 2021. Read more...

Twitter is getting encrypted DMs, Musk confirms voice and video chat coming soon

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 10 May 2023 07:14:02 +0000

Twitter is getting a bunch of new features such as DM Replies, a new emoji picker, and encrypted DMs, the company announced. In the future, Twitter will also add video and audio calling functionality. Read more...

Fluent Emoji Gallery app is now available with access to Microsoft's three emoji styles

Taras Buria — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:20:01 +0000

Fluent Emoji Gallery, a new app for Windows 11, is now available in the Microsoft Store, providing you access to three emoji styles, the option to save them as PNG or SVG, and more. Read more...

Google announces a bunch of new Android features ahead of MWC 2023

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:08:01 +0000

Google has announced some new features that will be coming to Android and Wear OS. The update will bring improved productivity, connectivity, accessibility and fun across your Android devices. Read more...

Full emoji keyboard now available for Reactions on WhatsApp

Rahul Naskar — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:30:01 +0000

WhatsApp has announced full emoji keyboard support for Reactions on its instant chat messenger platform. Users will now be able to use emojis of their choosing as reactions on the chat messenger. Read more...

This upcoming Outlook feature wants to declutter your inbox

Rahul Naskar — Fri, 20 May 2022 13:20:01 +0000

Microsoft Outlook for Mac will soon get a new feature that will make conversations less cluttered. Office Insiders will get it first in July. It will be available for non Insiders from August. Read more...

WhatsApp Beta is rolling out emoji shortcuts and a new feature to view media files

Rahul Naskar — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 06:18:01 +0000

WhatsApp is currently working on a plethora of new features, including new emoji shortcuts, and a new way to view media files on Android devices. These new features are currently in the testing phase. Read more...

Court rules in favor of Apple in ridiculous lawsuit about copying "diverse" emoji

Usama Jawad — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:28:01 +0000

A U.S. District Judge has finally ruled in favor of Apple in a lawsuit that alleged that the company had ripped off racially diverse emoji from an app developer and integrated them into iOS. Read more...

Opera integrates Yat so that you can visit emoji URLs

Paul Hill — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 02:24:02 +0000

Opera has integrated Yat emoji URLs directly into its web browser. Entering a string of emoji in Opera will now redirect you to the website of whoever owns that string of emoji in Yat. Read more...

Microsoft SwiftKey for Android and iOS gets a couple of new features in latest update

Rahul Naskar — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 06:26:01 +0000

Microsoft SwiftKey is one of the better keyboard apps for both Android and iOS. And now with the addition of a few useful new features, Microsoft's keyboard app is now more useful than it was before. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: The future of Windows 11 updates, a Mac trojan, and Defender

Usama Jawad — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:16:02 +0000

There was a lot of news from a variety of diverse topics in the world of Microsoft this week ranging from Windows 11, to cybersecurity, to the Outlook-ification of Gmail, and much more. Read more...

Windows 11 might get 3D emoji after all

Usama Jawad — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:08:02 +0000

A Microsoft Design lead has confirmed that the company is looking into bringing 3D emoji to Windows 11 after all. A couple of months ago, the firm received backlash for apparently false advertising. Read more...

Meta spruces up Messenger for the holidays with new features and backgrounds

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:36:02 +0000

Meta has added lots of new features to Messenger to make it a bit more festive. There's a new AR Effect, more engaging emoji, soundmoji, new themes, and more seasonal ways to send money gifts. Read more...

Microsoft makes new emojis available in optional Windows 11 November Update

Kaarthic Vydya — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 10:00:01 +0000

Windows 11 gets new emojis, updates to existing emojis with fluent design style, gender-neutral look and expressive flavor. Updated emoji panel for entering emoji in all Windows 11 applications. Read more...

Windows 11 is not getting 3D emoji, previous promise was a marketing blunder

Usama Jawad — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 03:16:01 +0000

After the release of a new Windows 11 build with flat, 2D emoji, Microsoft has confirmed that the OS is not getting 3D emoji at all. The previous promise has been downplayed to be a marketing blunder. Read more...

Uber launches searchable pick up maps with emoji support

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 23:38:01 +0000

Uber has added a search feature to its Uber Eats pick up map to make it easier to find places to order food you feel like eating. The search also supports food emoji such as burgers. Read more...

Facebook Messenger unveils emoji search bar, a new chat theme and more

Jay Bonggolto — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:00:01 +0000

Facebook has added new features to Messenger that should make it easier to find your favorite emoji reactions in a conversation. There's also a new Space Jam chat theme for fans of the original film. Read more...

Microsoft redesigns over 1,800 emoji in 3D, resurrects Clippy as the paper clip emoji

Abhay V — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:22:01 +0000

Microsoft announced that it is redesigning over 1,800 emojis in Windows, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services. The new emoji feature a 3D design and will roll out to Windows this holiday. Read more...

You will soon be able to star a message in the Android Messages app

Jay Bonggolto — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:32:01 +0000

Google has announced new features and capabilities for Android including the ability to mark an important message in the Messages app and the global rollout of its earthquake alert system. Read more...

You may soon be able to get new emojis on Android without waiting for system updates

Usama Jawad — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:20:02 +0000

Google has made several commits to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The changes - which have not been merged yet - indicate that the company is looking to decouple emojis from system updates. Read more...

iOS 14.2 is out with over a hundred new emojis

Rich Woods — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:28:01 +0000

Apple released iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 today. The main new feature is over 100 new emoji characters that are part of the Emoji 13.0 update. They have some other minor new features too. Read more...

Emoji 13.1 introduces 217 new emoji characters, coming to devices in 2021

Garg Ankit — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:40:01 +0000

Unicode announced Emoji 13.1 today, introducing the characters that will debut on smartphones later this year. There are 217 emoji in total, with seven new releases and 210 skin tone variants. Read more...

Google Messages starts rolling out emoji reactions, native image editor, and more

Jay Bonggolto — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:42:01 +0000

Google's Messages app now allows you to send emoji reactions to a photo, video or chat you've received as part of a new update. The app is also expanding some of its existing capabilities. Read more...

These are the 117 new emoji coming to Android 11

Rajesh Pandey — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 05:34:01 +0000

Ahead of World Emoji Day, Google has detailed the 117 emoji that it is going to debut with Android 11 later this year. Gboard beta users can already access them using the new quick access emoji bar. Read more...

You can now access Emoji 13.0 on Android 11 with latest Gboard beta

Sheldon Pinto — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 06:28:01 +0000

A new Gboard beta is letting users access brand-new emoji that have been available in Android 11, but not really accessible. The new emoji can now be used on your phone, but there's a catch. Read more...

There aren't going to be any new emojis in 2021

Rich Woods — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 02:20:01 +0000

Thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus, Unicode 14.0 has been delayed by six months, so it won't be out until September 2021. That means that devices won't get any new emojis next year. Read more...