After Apple and Google suggested the Unicode Consortium add skin tones to emoji, more and more of the icons have evolved to become more inclusive. But there's been one notable exception to that trend: ...

After years of texting highlighter-yellow handshakes to our friends, multi-skin toned handshake emoji are coming to our phones in 2022. The Unicode Consortium, which — among other things — sets the ...

The Unicode Consortium kicked off a revolution of internet proportions when it introduced the skin tone modifier to a handful of emoji in 2015. Since then, the executive body behind all our emoji (and ...

It has been years since Apple and Google started embracing diversity through their emojis. But the handshake, since then, has been left unchanged due to a complex hurdle. Finally! Google will be ...

With the iOS 15.4 update that was introduced today, Apple has added support for Emoji 14, introducing a selection of new emoji like melting face, biting lip, heart hands, and more. There are 37 new ...

Emoji are about visual communication, and the some of the new ones just approved say “Talk to the hand.” And there’s a new way to express love, too. Or there’s good news for everyone desperately ...

The Unicode Consortium is finally listening to Apple and Google after the respective tech giants asked for diverse skin tones to be added to the available emojis on mobile devices. As more icons have ...

On April 30, 2021, several tech news outlets reported that "a multi-skin toned handshake emoji is coming in 2022." This assertion is true. The news was announced by Google in a blog post published ...