Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this

A total of 164 emoji are proposed for 2025/2026, according to the Emojipedia blog. The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee has now revealed the concepts for nine of the new emoji. These nine include a distorted face, a fight cloud, a ballet dancer, an apple core, an orca, a “hairy creature,” a trombone, a landside, and a treasure chest.

The Unicode Consortium this week published its Unicode 17 emoji recommendations. The Consortium has proposed eight new emoji characters.

So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the same holds true with the Unicode 17 batch. There appear to be about nine uniquely new emojis proposed, including a hairy creature that resembles Big Foot, an apple core, a ballet dancer, an orca, a trombone, a rockslide, a treasure chest, and a slightly more abstract “fight cloud” symbol.

The Unicode Consortium has issued its latest collection of emoji you could be using on an iPhone in late 2025, including a distorted face, a "fight cloud," and an apple core.