Apple users will soon be able to express themselves with a new emoji that seems to be in good spirits, wearing a mask to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

My friend (the one with the crying-emoji-sending mother) sent me a combo she’s fond of: Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes with Pistol pointed to its head. (Taken together, they read as “stress ...

Hedley & Bennett's "Wake Up & Fight" masks become a call to action 04:29. Apple is giving its mask-wearing emoji an update: The keyboard character donning a medical face mask will be smiling under ...

Can you believe that the first emoji was only created in the late 1990s? Before this, we could use emoticons, […] ...

Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7. The new emoji include a face with bags under its eyes and a splatter. The Unicode ...

Apple has quietly updated its “Face with Medical Mask” emoji with friendlier eyes, eyebrows, and rosy cheeks. It appears to be Apple’s “Smiling Face” emoji, with a mask on top.

An old-school smiling emoji is currently trending on Twitter, but it’s not an icon you have on your iPhone keyboard. Instead, it’s a GIF of a smiley face with buck teeth that slowly ...

Emojis are integral to digital communication. This year, certain emojis gained prominence. The loudly crying face emoji shows ...

Samsung has beaten Apple to the punch, updating its mask emoji in March to have more cheerful looking eyes. Apple iOS 14.2 is currently in beta, and the company is yet to announce a release date ...

The company proposes that when an autonomous car comes to a stop sign or traffic light and “sees” someone standing at a crosswalk, a great big smile lights up at the front of the vehicle to ...

In Slack’s emoji menu, there are two versions of basic smiley faces. As shown above, there is :slightly_smiling_face: and :simple_smile:. At first glance, it might appear that the first offers a ...

The emoji at issue, shown in the chart below, is called “Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes” on Emojipedia (Yes, there’s an encyclopedia of emojis).