Flag emoji have been with us for nearly as long as we’ve had emoji on our cell phones. Originally, there were only 10 flags to choose from, a far cry from the bounty of flags available to us ...

The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.

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 ...