The female version of <a href="/person/">🧑 Person</a>.

Woman

A cream white&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 3 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as: Cream white; fair with any hair or eye color; quite common

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-3

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

Two hands performing a handshake gesture, indicating a&nbsp;cordial greeting between friends or associates.

As of late 2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations, this emoji design has multiple <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">skin tone modifier</a> options. Certain platforms did, however, support a small number of single skin tone options for the handshake emoji prior to 2021 (e.g. both <a href="/google/android-7.1/new/">Google</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/new/">Samsung</a> in 2017).&nbsp;<a href="/handshakes/">View all handshake emojis</a>.

Handshake

The male version of <a href="/person/">🧑 Person</a>.

A dark brown&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 5 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;&nbsp;Dark brown; Middle Eastern skin types

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-5

12.0 Emojipedia

Discord

Woman and Man Holding Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Apple

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Microsoft

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

WhatsApp

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Twitter / X

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Facebook

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Huawei

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

Sony Playstation

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

OpenMoji

Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Emojipedia Sample Images

Emojis displayed on iPhone, iPad,&nbsp;Mac, <a href="/apple-watch/">Apple Watch</a> and Apple TV use the&nbsp;Apple Color Emoji font installed on&nbsp;iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. Some Apple devices support&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/memoji/">Memoji</a>.&nbsp;Two Private Use Area characters are not cross-platform compatible&nbsp;but do work on Apple devices:

<ul>
	<li><a href="/apple-logo/">&nbsp;Apple logo</a></li>
	<li><a href="/beats-1-logo/"> Beats 1 logo</a></li>
</ul>

In March 2023&nbsp;<a href="/apple/ios-16.4/">iOS 16.4</a>&nbsp;included&nbsp;brand new emojis from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>, the latest set of emoji recommendations made in September 2022. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-16-4-emoji-changelog/">More about this release.</a>

Full list of emojis supported on Apple platforms including new 2023 emojis in iOS 16.4 (iPhone), iPadOS, macOS Big Sur, watchOS and tvOS. New emojis, and emoji image comparisons.

🍏 Apple Emoji List — Emojis for iPhone, iPad and macOS [Updated: 2023]

New emojis from Apple for 2023&nbsp;available as part of iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, tvOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4, and macOS 13.3.

iOS 16.4

New emojis from Apple for 2022&nbsp;available as part of&nbsp;iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, and macOS 12.3.

Released on 14&nbsp;March 2022, this was the first version of iOS to support the 112 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>, including various multiple skin tone versions of the <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a> emoji.

This Apple emoji update changed the appearance of the <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face with Hand Over Mouth</a>&nbsp;emoji to be more consistent with the designs of other vendors, with this emoji&#39;s originaly design being given to the new <a href="/emoji-14.0/">🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth</a>&nbsp;emoji.

Taking into account a series of additional&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#non-rgi">non-RGI</a>&nbsp;<a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a> emoji sequences, there are 123 new emojis in this release.

iOS 15.4

Released on 2021-05-24, this update changed the appearance&nbsp;of the various&nbsp;<a href="/person-climbing/">🧗 Person Climbing</a> emojis to have the person wearing a safety helmet.

iOS 14.6

New emojis from Apple for 2021 available as part of&nbsp;iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, and macOS 11.3.

This Apple emoji update changed the appearance of the&nbsp;<a href="/syringe/">💉&nbsp;Syringe</a>&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;to remove the blood, and added mixed skin tone support to&nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏&nbsp;Kiss</a> and <a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑&nbsp;Couple with Heart</a>.

Released on 26&nbsp;April 2021, this was the first version of iOS to support the 217 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. Taking into account <a href="/glossary/#non-rgi">non-RGI</a> emoji sequences, there&nbsp;there are 669 new emojis in this release.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-14-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 14.5

New emojis from Apple for 2020 released on iOS 14.2, iPad OS 14.2 and macOS 11 Big Sur.&nbsp;Emoji additions included&nbsp;<a href="/bubble-tea/">🧋 Bubble Tea</a>, <a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️ Transgender Flag</a>, <a href="/pinched-fingers/">🤌 Pinched Fingers</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/smiling-face-with-tear/">🥲 Smiling Face with Tear.</a>

This Apple emoji update changed the appearance of&nbsp;<a href="/person-with-veil/">👰 Person With Veil </a>and&nbsp;<a href="/person-in-tuxedo/">🤵 Person in Tuxedo</a> to gender neutral designs, with new sequences added to support gender-specific options for women or men. This software version also changed the appearance of&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-medical-mask/">😷 Face with Medical Mask</a> to smile.

Released on 5&nbsp;November 2020, this was the first version of iOS to support the 117 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-14-2-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 14.2

A minor update which fixed a bug where <a href="/apple/ios-13.3/men-holding-hands-medium-skin-tone-medium-dark-skin-tone/">one variation of men holding hands</a>&nbsp;previously showed <a href="/apple/ios-13.2/men-holding-hands-medium-skin-tone-medium-dark-skin-tone/">an incorrect set of skin tones</a>. This change applies to iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3 and macOS 10.15.2.

iOS 13.3

iOS 13.2 was released on 2019-10-28 with&nbsp;added support for gender neutral options, people holding hands with various skin tones, as well as full <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a> and <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a> compatibility. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-13-2-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏾 Woman and Man Holding Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Medium-Dark Skin Tone on Apple iOS 15.4

👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏾 Woman and Man Holding Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Medium-Dark Skin Tone on Apple iOS 15.4

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