In the face of increasingly audiovisual communication, the options for graphic resources to express oneself evolve every day. Unicode, entity that standardizes character design, has published a document that includes the new proposals of emoticons that could be part of our conversations starting at the end of next year.
Among the more than 160 new resources, mostly gender and ethnic iterations of existing ones, stand out the representation of Big Foot, an orca, a cloud that evokes a fight, a bitten apple, a trombone or a chest with a treasure .
In total, the document includes 164 new emojis that are pending approval in September 2025.
All the new emojis proposed, among which there is also a landslide or people practicing wrestling, are part of the Emoji 17.0 update, and are still susceptible to change. This means that some of what is included in the document may not become real and others may undergo modifications.
As stated Emojipediathere is also the possibility that more emojis will be added to this new batch, or that some of the compositions will be revised. However, since 2017 all of the candidate emoji drafts that have been published have been approved for use on our keyboards. Therefore, it would be expected that those presented Available now in 2026.
The time gap is due to the fact that once Unicode recommends an emoji proposal, the different providers, such as Apple, Google or Samsung, implement their own designs for each of the new concepts. This means that resources take time to appear on device keyboards.
For example, according to the aforementioned portal, the Emoji 16.0 emoticon package was approved on September 10 of this year, but has not yet reached keyboards.
If the 164 proposed emojis are finally approved in September 2025, the Emoji 17.0 update would increase the total number of Available emoticons recommended by Unicode at 3,954.
However, by the time they officially hit the market, the reality of the graphic resources could be very different, since, by then, Genmoji It would be operational for several months. This is the tool available on iPhone models that will have Apple Intelligence, and that will allow the creation of customizable emojis using artificial intelligence.
More info.: Emoji Proposal 17.0
