These Fun New Emoji Should Be Dropping Soon in iOS 26.4

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If you're a fan of emoji, get ready for a handful of killer new emoji to arrive on your iPhone in the coming weeks, including objectively the best new emoji: an orca whale. Apple released the fourth iOS 26.4 beta to developers on Monday, and it brings eight new emoji to the iPhones of developers. 

The eight new emoji are:

• Orca
• Landslide
• Trombone
• Fight cloud
• Distorted face
• Ballet dancers
• Treasure chest
• Hairy creature (Sasquatch)

The Unicode Consortium is responsible for creating emoji, and it approved these new emoji in September ...