Emoji fans, rejoice! You will likely to get nine new emoji on your device in spring of 2027. In October, the Unicode Consortium proposed the new emoji for Unicode 18.0. One of those emoji is a pickle, which I think could replace the eggplant as the go-to emoji for male anatomy.
Am I being childish or prophetic? We'll likely find out this time next year. The Unicode Consortium still needs to approve these proposed emoji, and the organization usually approves emoji in September.
Here are the nine new emoji you could see on your device next year.
- A cracking face
- A leftward thumb sign gesture
- A rightward thumb sign gesture
- A monarch butterfly
- A pickle
- A lighthouse
- A meteor
- An eraser
- A net with a handle
The Unicode Consortium originally proposed a squinty face emoji but in January the Unicode Emoji Standard & Research Working Group recommended changing that emoji to a cracking face.
Once an emoji is approved, it's up to companies like Apple and Samsung to design and implement their own versions of those emoji. Emoji are then usually added to Apple and Android devices via software updates the year following their approval. So if these emoji are approved, you likely won't see them until 2027. I'm still waiting for the orca and Sasquatch emoji to show up on my phone after being approved in 2024.
There's also a chance that one or more of these emoji aren't approved by the Unicode Consortium. In 2025, the apple core emoji was withdrawn from consideration before it could be approved.
For more on emoji, here's how to decipher every emoji and the latest emoji you'll see on your iPhone and Android devices soon.
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