New Emojis 2026, Unicode 17.0 & iOS 26 Additions

Distorted Face

Reads as glitching, dissociating, or a reaction melting in real time. It landed straight into the same slot 🫠 occupies.

Orca

The first cetacean added since the whale emoji, and the one most requested by marine conservation groups.

Fight Cloud

The comic-strip scuffle ball. Useful for chaos that is not actually violent.

Hairy Creature

Deliberately vague so it can serve Bigfoot, Sasquatch, yeti and every regional cryptid at once.

Trombone

Fills a long-standing gap in the instrument set, and gives the sad trombone its own character.

Landslide

Joins the small group of natural-disaster emoji alongside 🌊 and 🌋.

Treasure Chest

Arrived with gaming loot culture in mind rather than pirates.

Face with Bags Under Eyes

The runaway hit of the release. Burnout, insomnia, parenting a newborn, or the Monday after a long weekend.

Fingerprint

Identity, forensics, biometric login. A practical addition that had been proposed repeatedly.

Leafless Tree

Winter, drought and loss. The existing tree emoji were all relentlessly green.

Root Vegetable

Drawn as a turnip, intended to stand in for root vegetables generally.

Harp

Another gap in the instrument set closed.

Shovel

Digging, gardening, burying things, and a great deal of metaphorical use.

Splatter

An abstract splash that works for paint, mess or impact.

Shaking Face

Shock, disbelief, or being physically rattled. Animated on several platforms, which is rare.

Pink Heart

Requested for years. Softer and less romantic than the red heart, which is exactly why people wanted it.

Light Blue Heart

Calm and platonic. Widely adopted for friendship where 💙 felt too heavy.

Grey Heart

Ambivalence, numbness, or muted affection. The most emotionally specific of the three.

Goose

Arrived already loaded with meaning thanks to Untitled Goose Game and years of goose memes.

Moose

Canada, wilderness, and the northern United States.

Donkey

A working animal that had been conspicuously missing.

Jellyfish

One of the better-drawn additions across most vendor sets.

Ginger Root

Cooking and home remedies, and a favourite of food accounts.

Pea Pod

Completed a long-standing hole in the vegetable set.

Wing

A single wing, usable in pairs or alone for flight and freedom.

Hyacinth

Spring and renewal, and one of the few purple flowers available.

Leftwards Pushing Hand

Designed to pair with 🫸 for a high five or a blocking gesture.

Rightwards Pushing Hand

The other half of the pair. Together they make a two-handed push.

Folding Hand Fan

Picked up quickly by ballroom and drag communities.

Hair Pick

A specific and overdue addition to the grooming set.

Maracas

Percussion, celebration, Latin music.

Flute

Drawn as a simple transverse flute across most platforms.

Khanda

The symbol of Sikhism, added after a long-running proposal.

Wireless

The Wi-Fi symbol, finally available as an emoji rather than a copied glyph.

Melting Face

The standout of the release. Embarrassment, heat, dissociation, or quietly losing it in public.

Saluting Face

Acknowledgement with a touch of irony. Rarely used for actual military respect.

Heart Hands

The finger heart gesture, already enormous in K-pop culture before it was encoded.

Face Holding Back Tears

Overwhelmed by something sweet rather than sad. One of the most-used faces of the set.

Face with Peeking Eye

Watching through your fingers. Secondhand embarrassment.

Dotted Line Face

Feeling invisible or withdrawn. A genuinely novel idea for a face emoji.

Face with Diagonal Mouth

Mild scepticism. The polite version of a grimace.

Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth

Shock at gossip rather than horror.

Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed

The other finger heart, and in some contexts a money gesture.

Index Pointing at the Viewer

Direct address. Accusation or recruitment, depending on tone.

Biting Lip

Flirtation, anxiety or restraint. Context does all the work.

Rightwards Hand

Built to combine with 🫲 into mixed-skin-tone handshakes.

Leftwards Hand

The mirror of the above.

Palm Down Hand

Lowering, calming, or dropping something.

Palm Up Hand

Offering, asking, or presenting.

Person with Crown

A gender-neutral royal, alongside the existing king and queen.

Pregnant Man

Part of a deliberate expansion of gender representation.

Pregnant Person

The gender-neutral counterpart.

Troll

Fantasy creature and internet behaviour in one character.

Coral

Added with reef conservation explicitly cited in the proposal.

Lotus

Significant across several South and East Asian cultures.

Empty Nest

Designed as a pair with the one below for departure and arrival.

Nest with Eggs

Home, family planning, and new beginnings.

Beans

A staple food missing from the set for over a decade.

Pouring Liquid

Spilling or serving. Often used for the phrase about spilling tea.

Jar

Preserving, storing, or an empty container as metaphor.

Playground Slide

Childhood and play.

Wheel

Driving, and a frequent companion to the reinvention idiom.

Ring Buoy

Rescue and safety, literal and otherwise.

Mirror Ball

Disco, nightlife, and a surprise favourite among music accounts.

Low Battery

Exhaustion. Paired with the existing battery for a before and after.

Crutch

Part of the ongoing disability representation work.

X-Ray

Medical imaging, and seeing through a pretence.

Bubbles

Cleaning, bath time, or a light and airy mood.

Hamsa

A protective symbol across Jewish, Muslim and Middle Eastern traditions.

Identification Card

ID, verification, and proof of who you are.

Heavy Equals Sign

Added so equality could be expressed without borrowing a maths glyph.