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Flags

A revolving red light seen on top of a <a title="🚓 Police Car" href="/police-car/">police car</a>. Often used in emergency circumstances in addition to a siren making a loud <a title="📯 Postal Horn" href="/postal-horn/">warning sound</a>.

Police Cars Revolving Light

SOS is the description for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS">distress signal in Morse Code</a>.&nbsp;This emoji means SOS or &ldquo;emergency&rdquo;.

Squared SOS

A police officer wearing&nbsp;a blue hat&nbsp;with a gold badge or shield in the middle.

See also <a href="/woman-police-officer/">👮&zwj;♀️ Woman Police Officer</a> or&nbsp;<a href="/man-police-officer/">👮&zwj;♂️ Man Police Officer</a>

Police Officer

An ambulance, used to transport <a href="/face-with-medical-mask/" title="😷 Face With Medical Mask">patients</a> between their <a href="/house/" title="🏠 House Building">home</a> and the <a href="/hospital/" title="🏥 Hospital">hospital</a>.

Ambulance

The male version of the <a href="/police-officer/">👮&nbsp;Police Officer</a> emoji. Currently identical in appearance to the non-gendered base emoji.

Man Police Officer

The female version of the <a href="/police-officer/">👮&nbsp;Police Officer</a> emoji.

Woman Police Officer

A yellow face with an open&nbsp;mouth, the top of its head exploding in the shape of a brain-like mushroom cloud. A visual form of the expression mind blown, it&nbsp;may represent such emotions as shock, awe, amazement, and disbelief.

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same expression as its&nbsp;<a href="/frowning-face-with-open-mouth/">😦 Frowning Face With Open Mouth</a>.

Shocked Face with Exploding Head

A timepiece set in advance to startle a person awake at the designated time with its two bells. That is, before hitting snooze.&nbsp;Appearance varies across platforms, but depicted as a classic, wind-up, bedside alarm clock, often red in color.

May be used for various content concerning alarms, alerts, <a href="/person-in-bed/">sleeping</a>, waking, and time more generally.

Alarm Clock

Time&rsquo;s up! A timer set to count down and sound an alarm after a designated amount of time, as used in the kitchen. Appearance varies by platform. Commonly used for various content concerning time, including countdowns and deadlines.

Apple, WhatsApp, and Facebook&rsquo;s designs resemble kitchen timers. Other designs may be confused with <a href="/mantelpiece-clock/">🕰️&nbsp;Mantelpiece Clock</a> or other clock emojis.

Timer Clock

Ding! A call bell, as pressed at a front&nbsp;desk or reception&nbsp;to alert staff for service, such as from a <a href="/person-tipping-hand/">concierge</a> or bellhop (porter) to carry <a href="/luggage/">luggage</a> at a <a href="/hotel/">hotel</a>. Generally depicted as a golden <a href="/bell/">bell</a> on a wooden stand.

Commonly represents alerts or notifications to bring attention to important content. May also be used of various content concerning the hospitality and service industries.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/bellhop-bell/">previously</a>&nbsp;featured&nbsp;a silver bell radiating yellow rays, as if ringing.

Bellhop Bell

A fire extinguisher, as used to put out small <a href="/fire/">fires</a>. Depicted as a red tank with a black hose and pressure gauge. Most platforms include an image of a flame on a white label.

Commonly used for various content concerning fire safety, emergencies, and literal and figurative fires.

Fire Extinguisher

A postal horn (post horn). Depicted as a coiled, valveless, brass horn, like a bugle or <a href="/trumpet/">trumpet</a>, with two red tassels. Sometimes used to mark announcements as well as for various content concerning brass instruments, music, or mail.

In the 18&ndash;19th centuries, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_horn">post horns</a> signaled the arrival of and cleared the way for mail coaches, like a modern-day&nbsp;<a href="/police-car-light/">siren</a>. Used today as a symbol on <a href="/postbox/">postboxes</a> (mailboxes) and by many European postal services, as seen featured in <a href="/post-office/">🏤 European Post Office</a>.

Postal Horn

The front page of a newspaper, as people once read the news before the internet. Commonly used for various content concerning news, media, and journalism as well as personal news.

Most platforms depict a nondescript masthead, images, and columns of text. Apple&rsquo;s newspaper is called The Apple Times, featuring a logo based on its&nbsp;<a href="/eagle/">🦅 Eagle</a> and a picture of its <a href="/volcano/">🌋 Volcano</a>. Facebook&rsquo;s is called Daily Feed, with a headline &ldquo;El Capitan&rdquo; and picture of that famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan">rock formation in Yosemite National Park</a>. WhatsApp&rsquo;s paper reads Daily News with a picture of a <a href="/world-map/">map</a>.

See also <a href="/rolled-up-newspaper/">🗞️ Rolled-Up Newspaper</a>.

Newspaper

A newspaper rolled up and bound, as for delivery to a house. Generally positioned at a 45&deg; angle. Commonly used for various content concerning news, media, and journalism&nbsp;as well as personal news.

See also <a href="/newspaper/">📰 Newspaper</a>.

Rolled-Up Newspaper

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager">pager</a>, as worn on the waist to alert a person to a phone call&nbsp;or short text message. Popular in the 1980&ndash;90s before <a href="/mobile-phone/">mobile phones</a>, though still used by some medical and emergency personnel. Very occasionally used to represent alerts, digital communication, or nostalgia for old technology.

Depicted as a black device with operating buttons and a green screen displaying various&nbsp;numbers across platforms, including:

<ul>
	<li>Apple: 555-3215 (555 is commonly used for fake numbers in the US)</li>
	<li>Google: 1998 (the year Google was founded; <a href="/google/android-8.0/pager/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed 8888, the&nbsp;<a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns">Google DNS</a> IP address)</li>
	<li>Microsoft: [indecipherable]</li>
	<li>Samsung: 954-5684 (unknown origin;&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/pager/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed SUNMOON)</li>
	<li>WhatsApp: 867-5309 (an allusion to the 1980s hit song&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny">&quot;867-5309/Jenny&quot;</a>)</li>
	<li>Twitter: 40404 (Twitter&#39;s discontinued <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2010/introducing-fast-follow-and-other-sms-tips.html">SMS number</a>)</li>
	<li>Facebook: 543-4800 (Facebook Inc&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitepages.com/phone/1-650-543-4800">phone number</a>;&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.0/pager/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed 02 04 20 04, referring to the company&#39;s launch date)</li>
</ul>

Pager

A round white and orange or red ring buoy with string laced through its perimeter. Also called a life preserver.

Maybe be used to talk about water, boats, and safety. May also be used metaphorically to talk about someone or something that saves.&nbsp;

Ring Buoy

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Emojipedia

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

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

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

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

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

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

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

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.

Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

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

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

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

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

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

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

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

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;

The&nbsp;<a href="/apple-logo/">&nbsp;Apple logo</a>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;Private Use Area&nbsp;(PUA) character that is not cross-platform compatible&nbsp;but does work on Apple devices. Previously the&nbsp;<a href="/beats-1-logo/"> Beats 1 logo</a>&nbsp;was also supported as a PUA.

In March 2024 <a href="/apple/ios-17.4">iOS 17.4</a> included new emojis from <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1.</a>

Full list of emojis supported on Apple platforms including new 2024 emojis in iOS 17.4 (iPhone), iPadOS, macOS Big Sur, watchOS and tvOS. New emojis, and emoji image comparisons.

🍏 Apple Emoji List — Emojis for iPhone, iPad and macOS [Updated: 2024]

New emojis from Apple for 2024.

Released on 5 March 2024 for iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, this was the first version of iOS to support the 118 new emojis in <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a>, including various direction-specific people emojis.

This update also changed all family emojis to display with one of the four silhouette symbol designs also used for the new non-gender-specifying family emojis added in <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a>.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-17-4-emoji-changelog/">Learn more about this update.</a>

iOS 17.4

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.

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