A brand new batch of emojis has been accepted for iOS 26.
Surprisingly sufficient, Apple or Google isn’t those that determine which emojis come to your telephone.
That’s the job of Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that maintains the Unicode Commonplace, the common character encoding system that ensures textual content and emoji seem constantly throughout platforms and gadgets.
Yearly, the Unicode Consortium accepts solutions for brand new emojis — and 9 new ones have formally been chosen for the following rollout.
The brand new emojis that may grace keyboards in iOS 26 embody:
- Trombone
- Treasure Chest
- Distorted Face
- Furry Creature
- Struggle Cloud
- Apple Core
- Orca
- Ballet Dancers
- Landslide
“These new emojis have long-standing symbolic meanings, are visually distinctive, and contain multitudes of expression,” Unicode mentioned within the announcement.
For instance, the “hairy creature” is reportedly impressed by varied “Big Foot”-esque creatures.
Apple will finally undertake their very own variations of the emoji designs earlier than including the brand new set to iOS 26, however Unicode printed their renderings for customers to get an thought.
Nonetheless, it’s unlikely iPhone customers will see these new emojis within the first iteration of iOS 26.
As 9to5Mac famous, Apple normally waits till a later replace within the software program cycle so as to add new emojis. For instance, this 12 months’s new additions have been a part of iOS 18.4 — but it surely’s not all the time that late within the cycle.
New emojis might probably be added in iOS 26.1 or 26.2 earlier than the 12 months ends.
