Tag Archives: Emoji

Britney Spears Shares NSFW Instagram Photo With Strategically Placed Rose Emoji | Britney Spears, Instagram | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Britney Spears Shares NSFW Instagram Photo With Strategically Placed Rose Emoji | Britney Spears, Instagram | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Britney Spears is making headlines with her latest Instagram post. The 43-year-old “Toxic” pop superstar took to the platform on Saturday (August 23) to share a nude photo of herself, wearing only a pair of knee-high black boots. In the image, Britney stood in front of a large window with her arms stretched above her head and her back to …

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You Can Turn Your Pet Pictures Into Emoji on Your iPhone. Here’s How

You Can Turn Your Pet Pictures Into Emoji on Your iPhone. Here’s How

I love my dog, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. She’s brown and white and precious, and I take every opportunity to show her to the world. With an iPhone feature called Live Stickers, I can turn photos of her into emoji and stickers, and then text them to others. Apple introduced Live Stickers in iOS 17 as an evolution of the tap-and-lift feature from iOS 16, …

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Here’s a Sneak Peek at the Next Batch of Emoji Coming to Your Device

Here’s a Sneak Peek at the Next Batch of Emoji Coming to Your Device

What’s up, besties? It’s World Emoji Day, which means it’s time to look at some new emoji (or is that emojis?). In a post on its blog today, the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit behind the standardized set of emoji across you see across all your various devices and apps, previewed its next set of icons and expressions. The group says …

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Apple News+ adds a new game that uses emoji and Genmoji to solve puzzles

Apple News+ adds a new game that uses emoji and Genmoji to solve puzzles

Apple is introducing a new reason to upgrade to its subscription news offering, Apple News+: more games. On Thursday, the company announced the addition of the Emoji Game, an original title that will join its other games, including its Crossword puzzle, Crossword Mini, Sudoku, and word game Quartiles, in both the U.S. and Canada in English. Bundling games with other …

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Unicode’s new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot’s name

Unicode’s new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot’s name

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it’s adding what’s essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as “Hairy Creature” alongside a selection of other fun new emoji options in Unicode 17.0. It might seem strange that a consortium of companies as powerful as Apple, Google and Microsoft would practically subtweet one …

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iOS 26 Emoji Will Include Bigfoot, Apple Core, Distorted Face, Fight Cloud and More

iOS 26 Emoji Will Include Bigfoot, Apple Core, Distorted Face, Fight Cloud and More

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall. Emoji characters that are coming include trombone, treasure chest, distorted face, hairy creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch), fight cloud, apple core, orca, and ballet dancers. After Unicode 17 is released later this year, artists …

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The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot

The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot

Today is World Emoji Day, and the Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of some of the new emoji that should hit your devices early next year as part of Unicode 17.0. If you ask me, it’s a promising batch, especially the Bigfoot emoji — sorry, “hairy creature.” The list includes these emoji, according to the Consortium: I can think …

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Apple launches new emoji word game to take on Wordle and the NYT

Apple launches new emoji word game to take on Wordle and the NYT

It’s called simply Emoji Game, and each day you’re presented with three phrases, which have some letters filled in, but are mostly blank. There’s a partial hint as to what the word or phrase is that you’re trying to complete, and then a whole bunch of emoji at the bottom. The idea is to take the words or sounds the …

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