Eye ring smiley, fingerprint and more: these new emojis are coming in 2025
A new batch of emojis was announced back in fall 2024. Users will then be able to use them on their devices for the first time in 2025.
These are the templates for the new emojis that are due in 2025.
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A smiley face with circles under its eyes, a fingerprint, root vegetables and a harp: Anyone who has painfully missed these emojis for embellishing chats and emails so far should be rejoicing in 2025. This is because the Unicode Consortium has selected these motifs for the expansion of the existing emoji image sets. Version 16.0, whose specifications were published in September 2024, contains a few more motifs that are expected in the first operating systems in the spring.
A total of eight emojis were selected for the addition. In addition to those mentioned at the beginning, these include a kind of ink stain, a shovel, a leafless tree and the flag of the Channel Island of Sark, which lies between Great Britain and France – Anyone who has ever wondered what it looks like will be able to elicit it from their emoji keyboard in future.
Multi-stage recording process
Adding new emojis is a multi-stage process. Anyone interested can submit an application for a new emoji to the Unicode Consortium. It is expected that these are motifs that are likely to be used frequently and that they differ from existing emojis. Accepted proposals will then be included in the standard, with the consortium only roughly specifying the exact graphic design.
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In the next step, it is up to the manufacturers and developers of the various platforms such as Google, Apple and Microsoft to create designs for the emojis and make them available via software updates. This process is at the discretion of the manufacturers –. As a result, there is usually a transition period during which emojis are not displayed correctly when they are sent from a device with an updated operating system to a user with an old OS.
Is AI the future of emojis?
While the Unicode Consortium is already collecting suggestions for version 17, artificial intelligence is increasingly giving users the opportunity to simply design their own emojis. With Apple Intelligence, for example, Apple is introducing the Genmoji function at operating system level, which allows users to simply describe their desired motif to the system. A positive side effect: unlike Unicode, it is not anchored in the character set so that the Genmoji is sent as a normal image motif and is therefore also visible on non-Apple devices or older models. There are also offers on the web that allow you to create your own emojis.
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