The submission window for Emoji 16.0 proposals will be open from April 4 through July 31, but Unicode will not process any new flag emoji proposals, the consortium said in a blog post Monday.

The latest iOS 18.4 update quietly released eight new emojis for Apple devices: a tired-looking emoticon, a purple splatter, a harp, a shovel, a fingerprint, a tree, a flag and a radish — and ...

Most of the Unicode 16.0 emoji, by contrast, are their own unique characters. The one exception is the Sark flag emoji; flag sequences are created by placing two "regional indicator letters ...