To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete ...

Apple’s new $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative aims to help the Black community. But it was too late for Katrina Parrott, a Black woman who helped Apple invent diverse skin tone ...

Using skin tone emojis is a seemingly easy choice that in reality can be fraught. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with writer and researcher Zara Rahman about the complexities behind the selection.

Today, selecting a different skin tone – by long-pressing – will result in Gboard making your choice the default emoji that appears in the grid. However, this is set on a per-character basis.

You’ll be able to select a skin tone for emoji by right-clicking on compatible emoji that have a dot in the top-right corner. A sample of some of the new emoji can be seen below.

The same goes for the handshake emoji. “ At this stage skin tone support for the handshake emoji is drafted for Emoji 14.0 meaning it could be on phones in 2021-2022,” Burge explains.

These emoji were supposed to be released in 2021, but due to COVID they've been pushed back to 2022. Regardless, these 25 combinations will be a part of Emoji 14.0.

It's hard to remember a time when skin tone emoji weren't a thing, with WhatsApp first introducing them all the way back in 2015.However, even today there are some emoji types that still aren't ...

The kiss emoji can mean love, friendship, flirting, or affection. Find out what each type of kiss emoji on WhatsApp really expresses, depending on its use and the relationship.

The new emoji skin tone options cover every existing set, including straight, LBGT, and single families with any combination of one or two children.

Here’s how it works. Let’s say that your colleague dropped a Simpsons-yellow Flexed Biceps emoji on a Slack message celebrating someone’s huge accomplishment. If your default skin tone for ...