Bigfoot, orca and up to 164 new emoji we might see in 2025
You’ll soon be able to enjoy over 160 new emojis on your devices
Emojis have become indispensable in our daily communication. So much so that there’s even an Apple Intelligence function dedicated entirely to creating personalized emojis. Existing emojis have stopped growing and it looks like We will have important additions in 2025 Among them, we have news such as orca or Bigfoot. Up to 164 new emojis in total.
Apple is generally one of the companies that incorporates these new emojis the fastest. Although they are not official yet Emojipedia The Unicode consortium responsible for emojis has revealed its draft for 2025 and 2026. And in this draft these appeared What new emojis may come? to our emoji keyboards by the end of next year.
New emojis of 2025
Emoji Unicode Subcommittee, now called the Emoji Research and Standards Working Group 164 new emoji suggested To the Unicode Technical Committee. Among these, sample designs were presented for nine concepts whose names and designs stand out in official documents.
Among these 164 new emojis, we have 9 emojis that will be completely new. The nine very diverse emojis can be:
- A distorted face.
- A “fighting cloud” symbol as seen in cartoons and comics.
- A ballerina (shown above with a dark skin tone modifier).
- An apple seed.
- Orca, also known as the “killer whale”
- “Furry creature” inspired by “Bigfoot”.
- A trombone.
- A landslide.
- A treasure chest.
These are 9 possible new emojis coming in 2025, along with changes to skin tones for many other emojis.
Unicode has revealed what new emojis could be coming to our standard emoji keyboards late next year. These possible new emojis include a distorted smiley face, an orca, a treasure chest, several ballet dancers and a “furry creature” inspired by Big Foot.
Here are some of the new emoji currently recommended for Emoji 17.0: Skin tone options for available “Bunny Ear People” and “Fighting People” emojis. The offering for these emojis will include both single skin tone support, where both people in the emoji design share the same skin tone, and multi-skin tone support, where each person is shown with a different skin tone. That’s why we have so many varieties.
We will also have different skin tones for many other emojis
Although this is a draft, from 2017 until now, All emoji candidates proposed in the drafts have been approved Finally. Therefore, the same situation is expected to occur with this proposal. There will be until September 2025 for additional evaluations, including when new candidates may be added, before Emoji 17.0 is approved.
If everything goes according to normal plans, it is possible Apple will implement these emojis in iOS next year. Maybe we will see these with iOS 19 or in the iOS 18 update if it comes early.
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