Here's an Early Look at the New Emoji Coming to Your iPhone in 2026

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Apple released iOS 26 in September, and while that update didn't include new emoji, a future iOS 26 update will bring eight new emoji to your iPhone. The Unicode Consortium approved eight emoji in September as part of Unicode 17.0. That means iPhones and Android devices will get new emoji in early 2026.

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Here are the eight new emoji you can expect ...