Earlier this year, as part of World Emoji Day — a totally real, official holiday celebrated across the globe — Apple sent out a teaser video featuring its official designs for the latest batch ...

Step 1: Choose your picture. Open up the imoji app and tap the plus sign to add a new "imoji" (emoji) or "artmoji" (a picture with emoji stamps on it).

While this year’s Emoji 15.0 draft includes 31 candidates, last year’s draft had 112 belonging to Emoji 14.0. All that is dwarfed by 334 emoji submissions shared between Emoji 13.0 and Emoji 13.1.

Emoji were introduced in Japan in 1999, ... Instead of having to standardize fonts and text sizes and alphabets and symbols like the plus sign so that they can be read on all devices, ...