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Emoji 17.0 is the presumed release which will provide new emojis alongside&nbsp;Unicode 17.0 in September 2025.

There are currently no draft candidates announced for Emoji 17.0.

For the new emoji list coming to devices in 2024/2025, see&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-16.0">Emoji 16.0</a>.

17.0

Emoji 16.0 is the set of emojis recommended for release on September 10 2024, alongside <a href="/unicode-16.0/">Unicode 16.0</a>.

Emoji 16.0 contained 8 new emojis, listed below.

16.0

Emoji 15.1 is the latest set of emojis recommended for release, approved September 12, 2023&nbsp;alongside Unicode 15.1.

As with 2019&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a> and 2020&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>, the emojis recommended within Emoji 15.1 are sequences combining existing emoji characters from up to September 2022&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>.

As of March 2024, these emojis are available on the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-6-0-emoji-changelog/">latest Samsung devices</a>, via Google&#39;s latest <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/googles-emoji-15-1-support-in-noto-color-emoji/">Noto Emoji font updates</a>, and within <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-17-4-emoji-changelog/">Apple iOS 17.4</a>. A subset of the designs are also available in WhatsApp.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-15-1-and-emoji-15-1/">Learn more about this update.</a>

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15.1

Emoji 15.0 is the set of emojis recommended for release on September 13,&nbsp;2022&nbsp;alongside <a href="/unicode-15.0/">Unicode 15.0</a>.

Emoji 15.0 contained 31 new emojis, including the long-requested plain <a href="/pink-heart">🩷 Pink Heart</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-15-0/">Learn more about this update.</a>

15.0

Emoji 14.0 is the set of emojis recommended for release on September 14,&nbsp;2021&nbsp;alongside <a href="/unicode-14.0/">Unicode 14.0</a>.

Additions&nbsp;include mixed skin tone support for&nbsp;<a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a>, which until now has been only default yellow on most major platforms. Other new emojis include&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="/saluting-face/">saluting face</a>, a&nbsp;<a href="/mirror-ball/">mirrored disco ball</a>,&nbsp;and <a href="/biting-lip/">biting lip</a>.

<ul>
	<li>🖥&nbsp;<a href="http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/14.0/">Unicode Emoji 14.0 Data Files</a></li>
	<li>📝&nbsp;<a href="https://unicode.org/emoji/future/emoji-candidates.html">Unicode Emoji 14.0 Chart with recommended CLDR Keywords</a></li>
</ul>

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14.0

Emoji 13.1&nbsp;is the set of emojis recommended for release in September 2020.&nbsp;Additions include mixed skin tone support for all variations of&nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏 Kiss</a> and <a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑 Couple with Heart</a>, which until this release were only available in default yellow on most major platforms.

13.1

Emoji 13.0 is the set of emojis approved for release in early 2020. The final list <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/117-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2020/">was announced on 2020-01-29</a>, with 117 new emojis arriving on major platforms throughout 2020.

These new emojis are now&nbsp;available on all major platforms.&nbsp;For the emoji release for late 2021, see <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. For the latest emoji release, see <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>.&nbsp;

13.0

Emoji 12.1 was an update to <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a> which brought forward a number of gender neutral and hand-holding sequences <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-brings-forward-gender-neutral-timeline/">originally drafted</a> for <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a> in 2020.

Emoji 12.1 was <a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2019/10/emoji-121-release-168-emoji-added.html">released</a> on 2019-10-29, with the relevant&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.1/">data files</a>&nbsp;also published on this date.

12.1

Emoji 12.0 was the first set of new emojis approved for release in&nbsp;2019. <a href="/emojipedia/12.0/new/">Additions</a>&nbsp;included new colored&nbsp;<a href="/large-yellow-square/">squares</a>, <a href="/large-purple-circle/">circles</a>, and <a href="/white-heart/">hearts</a> as well as a <a href="/diving-mask/">diving mask</a>, <a href="/hindu-temple/">hindu temple</a>, and <a href="/flamingo/">flamingo</a>. Accessibility emojis <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-proposes-new-accessibility-emojis/">proposed by Apple in&nbsp;2018</a> are also included in this release, as well as a <a href="/people-holding-hands/">gender inclusive couple</a>&nbsp;with support for mixed skin tones for those holding hands.

See also: <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a> which was a supplementary update in late 2019 and&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>&nbsp;which is the new emoji list for 2020.

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/230-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2019/">📰&nbsp;More About Emoji 12.0</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://youtu.be/4HJhBUIVul8">▶️ All 230 New Emojis For 2019 (video,&nbsp;sample images)</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.0/">📋 Unicode Emoji 12.0 Data Files</a></li>
</ul>

12.0

Emoji 11.0 is the emoji release that&nbsp;followed&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>.&nbsp;This&nbsp;new&nbsp;emoji list&nbsp;was <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/">confirmed</a>&nbsp;on 2018-02-07&nbsp;and the specification was released on 2018-06-05.

Note: There were no version of Emoji 6.0-10.0. A&nbsp;decision was made in 2017 to align Emoji version numbers with their respective Unicode versions, starting with version 11.0.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/11.0/">📋 Unicode Emoji 11.0 Data Files</a></li>
</ul>

11.0

Emoji 5.0 is the list of emojis finalized&nbsp;in March 2017 and released on&nbsp;May 18, 2017.&nbsp;This update&nbsp;included&nbsp;56 new emojis from <a href="/unicode-10.0/">Unicode 10.0</a>, as well as 183 emoji sequences used for gender and skin-tone variants and&nbsp;subdivision flags.

Emoji 5.0 added support&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-tag-sequence/">subdivision flags</a>&nbsp;and listed&nbsp;<a href="/flag-england/">England</a>, <a href="/flag-scotland/">Scotland</a> and <a href="/flag-wales/">Wales</a>&nbsp;as <a href="/glossary/#rgi">Recommended for General Interchange</a>&nbsp;(RGI).

<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/final-2017-emoji-list/">Learn more about this update</a>.

Emoji 4.0 was released on November 28, 2016 and&nbsp;added&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a> for gendered emojis, 16 new emoji professions (32 when including female and male versions), <a href="/rainbow-flag/" title="🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Flag">Rainbow Flag</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/flag-united-nations/" title="🇺🇳 Flag for United Nations">United Nations Flag</a>.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/4.0/emoji-data.txt">🔣 Emoji Data 4.0&nbsp;Source File</a></li>
</ul>

Released in June 2016, this this&nbsp;emoji version&nbsp;coincided&nbsp;with the release of <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9.0</a>. This release recmomended which of the Unicode 9 emojis should support skin tones, and documented emoji-presentation combined keycaps.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/3.0/emoji-data.txt">🔣 Emoji Data 3.0&nbsp;Source File</a></li>
</ul>

Published in November 2015, just&nbsp;three months after <a href="/emoji-1.0/">Emoji 1.0</a>,&nbsp;this update was the first to specify which emojis were recommended for skin tone <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">modifier</a> support, and to support a range of family combinations as <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/2.0/emoji-data.txt">🔣 Emoji Data 2.0&nbsp;Source File</a></li>
</ul>

The first release of emoji documentation&nbsp;from Unicode, which includes all emojis approved between 2010&mdash;2015.&nbsp;

Published in August 2015, this primarily includes emojis from <a href="/unicode-6.0/">Unicode 6.0</a>, <a href="/unicode-6.1/">Unicode 6.1</a>, and clarified which of the&nbsp;new pictographic characters from <a href="/unicode-7.0/">Unicode 7.0</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/unicode-8.0/">Unicode 8.0</a> would be recommended for emoji presentation.

Until this release, no major vendors supported emojis from Unicode 7.0 or above.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/1.0/emoji-data.txt">🔣 Emoji Data 1.0 Source File</a></li>
</ul>

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