Apple added eight new emoji to all iPhones when the company released iOS 18.4 in March, and Samsung brought those same emoji ...

The tech giant said that update will bring a transparent glass design to icons and menus and much more to your iPhone this ...

OS 18 adds fresh emojis that say what words can’t. From grossed out to guilty, here’s every new one and how it fits into your ...

Last January, the Apple emoji factory upset some people online after churning out a new batch of emoticons for the new iOS 15.4, which included a pregnant man.. The most divisive addition seemed ...

Emoji are the ideograms – smileys – used in electronic messages and on websites. You may know them more generally as ’emoticons’, but emoji are a specific subset of that phenomena.

Jailbreak iPhone users have been able to get Emoji, the Japanese emoticons, on their phones for a while now, but you can now get it even without jailbreaking—albeit a slightly gimped version ...

The iPhone has support for popular Japanese emoticons known as emoji — but only if you’re in Japan. Us Americans (and other iPhone customers across the world) have been stuck with the bland ...

Think of emoticons as the older, less tech-savvy Western cousin of the emoji. The usage of emoticons outdate Facebook , the iPhone , and even Taylor Swift .

The smiley is the heart of the emoji world, so it’s pretty well-covered already. As such, maybe it’s no surprise there are only two new smiley emoji this year. But they manage to delight, anyway.

Think of emoticons as the traditional smiley face -- with a lot more personality. Crafting an emoticon like the shrug-face takes a lot more work than an emoji, though.