Don't expect to see new flags in your phone's emoji any time soon. The Unicode Consortium has warned it will "no longer accept proposals" for flag emoji, regardless of category. They're more ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The slew of new emoji rolling out to smartphones this year will include the transgender flag and symbol, finally ceding to LGBTQ advocates who ...

“Updating my iPhone for the first time in 3 years to get the little Guinness harp emoji,” one person wrote online. Customers were divided over the addition of the purple splatter and a new ...

San Jose leaders are now asking a nonprofit that standardizes emojis to include the flag of South Vietnam. The flag is ...

He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The Unicode Consortium has revealed 117 new emoji that will be rolled out later this year as part of Emoji 13.0. There are 62 new ...

The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.

So Carlyle created a Change.org petition to ask Apple to make pride and trans flag emoji. And why Apple? Well, Carlyle said he and several of his friends have already submitted a proposal to ...

The Aboriginal flag emoji is now available on Apple iOS via the Genmoji feature. First Nations-led illustration agency Solid Lines has developed a method to bring the Aboriginal flag into Apple's ...

Case in point: the transgender flag. Despite being the most requested emoji for two years in a row, Unicode has failed to create an image for the blue, white and pink flag and now people have had ...

The transgender flag, women wearing tuxedos, bottle-feeding parents and a gender-neutral Santa are part of of the new 2020 emoji update from the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit organization that ...

The release of a Sark flag emoji will be in April, as part of the iOS 18.4 update, Apple officials have confirmed. Requirements for an official flag as an emoji are different than for other icons ...

many of which are new gender-inclusive emoji. Other notable additions this year include the transgender flag — from a proposal co-sponsored by Google and Microsoft — as well as the new smiling ...