Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices on 30&nbsp;October 2023, Samsung&#39;s One UI 6.0&nbsp;featured a completely new design style for the majority of the vendor&#39;s emojis.

All smiley, food, and animal emoji designs have been revised in this update, as have the majority of the people emojis.

This is the most significant revision of the vendor&#39;s emoji set since&nbsp;February 2018&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/samsung/experience-9.0">Experience 9.0</a> update, which introduced a significant number of design revisions that were consistent with those used on other platforms.

This update also introduced support for the 2023 <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a> recommendation list.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-6-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

One UI 6.0

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices from October 2022, Samsung&#39;s One UI 5.0 provided support for both&nbsp;2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> and 2022&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>&nbsp;recommendations.

Prior to the release of One UI 5.0, many Samsung users may have seen support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>&nbsp;emojis provided via <a href="/google/">Google&#39;s emoji design set</a>. This was due to Google&#39;s expansion of&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/faster-emoji-updates-on-the-way-for-android-apps/">Android AppCompat</a>&nbsp;in 2021.

A select number of users also reported seeing <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>&nbsp;designs in Samsung&#39;s emoji font when updating to One UI 4.1.1 in September 2022.

One UI 5.0

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices from&nbsp;mid-January 2022, this small emoji updated changed the design of Samsung&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a> emoji to be more consistent&nbsp;with those of other emoji vendors.

Additional devices received this emoji update alongside Samsung&#39;s&nbsp;One UI 4.1 update, which was made widely available in March 2022 after initially debuting with the Galaxy S22 series of devices a month earlier.

One UI 4.0 January 2022

Beginning its rollout on&nbsp;2021-11-15 for Samsung&#39;s Galaxy S21 series of mobile devices,&nbsp;Samsung One UI 4.0&nbsp;added support for <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.

One UI 4.0

Beginning its rollout in late July 2021 to select Samsung&rsquo;s Galaxy Z devices, One UI 3.1.1 updated a small number of existing emoji designs.

Select devices running Samsung One UI 3.1 were also given this emoji update&nbsp;via a firmware update in August 2021.

One UI 3.1.1

Released alongside the Galaxy Note 20 on&nbsp;2020-08-21, Samsung One UI 2.5 added support for <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. This update also introduced a number of gender-inclusive designs for any emoji where gender is not specified. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-2-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

One UI 2.5

Samsung One UI 2.0&nbsp;began rolling out to users in February 2020.&nbsp;The first major devices to launch with this release were the&nbsp;Galaxy S20 and the Galaxy Z Flip.

This update provides support to the 136 gender-neutral person&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-zwj-sequences-three-letters-many-possibilities">ZWJ sequences </a>recommended in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. However, the previously-released&nbsp;<a href="/woman/">👩 Woman&nbsp;</a>variant designs are displayed&nbsp;instead of a new gender-neutral design.

The 30 people holding hands emojis recommended&nbsp;in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;are absent from this update.

One UI 2.1

Samsung One UI 2.0&nbsp;began rolling out to users in January 2020.

This update corrected a <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-emoji-adventures/">long-standing design oddity</a> in the Samsung emoji set, where the design for <a href="/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u/">🇺 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U</a>&nbsp;displayed the letter V and <a href="/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-v/">🇻 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter V</a>&nbsp;displayed the letter U.

One UI 2.0

Samsung One UI 1.5 began rolling out to users in August 2019.&nbsp;The first major device&nbsp;to launch with this release was the Samsung&nbsp;Galaxy Note 10.

Updates in this release include full support for <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>, as well as&nbsp;a number of design changes&nbsp;including a change to the&nbsp;<a href="/people-with-bunny-ears/">👯 People With Bunny Ears</a> emoji designs.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-1-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

One UI 1.5

Samsung One UI 1.0 (formerly known as Samsung Experience 10.0) began rolling out to users in&nbsp;December&nbsp;2018. The first major devices to launch with this release were the Samsung Galaxy S10 series, announced on February 20, 2019.

This release changed&nbsp;a number of emoji designs, including many animals and&nbsp;the <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> emoji which changed to&nbsp;show&nbsp;July 17. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-1-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

One UI 1.0

Samsung Experience 9.5 was released alongside the Galaxy Note 9 on 2018-08-24. This was Samsung&#39;s first release to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Experience 9.5

An updated set of emojis that began appearing for users with newer builds of&nbsp;Samsung Experience 9.0 since&nbsp;April 2018. Listed here as Experience 9.1, due to likelihood of this being the emoji set to be installed in the release following version 9.0. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Experience 9.1

Samsung Experience 9.0 began rolling out to most users from the week of February 12, 2018 alongside the Samsung Android Oreo (Android 8.0)&nbsp;release.&nbsp;First&nbsp;<a href="https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-experience-9-0-beta-now-available">released as a beta</a> in November 2017, this&nbsp;comes standard on the new Samsung Galaxy S9.

Notable updates in this release include yellow becoming the default color for emoji skin tone (instead of pale white)&nbsp;and designs that are more consistent with those used on other platforms such as&nbsp;the <a href="/face-with-rolling-eyes/">rolling eyes emoji</a>.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Experience 9.0

Samsung Experience 8.5 was released alongside&nbsp;released the&nbsp;Galaxy Note 8 in September 2017 running Android 7.0 Marshmallow.

Experience 8.5

Samsung Experience 8.1&nbsp;was released to the public on 21&nbsp;April 2017 alongside the Galaxy S8. This update fixed&nbsp;the design for the <a href="/crossed-fingers/">Crossed Fingers emoji</a>, and included other minor design updates.

This update ran&nbsp;Android Nougat 7.0: the same releases as the original Samsung Nougat update. This version also&nbsp;contains the same number of emojis as the previous release.

Experience 8.1

Samsung Experience 8.0 was released on&nbsp;January 19, 2017 and&nbsp;brought compatibility with <a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a>, with new professions added, gendered emojis, and the rainbow flag.

A limited range of Samsung devices started <a href="https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-begins-rollout-of-android-7-0-nougat">receiving</a> this update from January 19, 2017.

Experience 8.0

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recieved an update on 22 September 2016, commonly referred to&nbsp;as the &quot;green battery update&quot;.

TouchWiz 7.1 (aka TouchWiz Grace UX 7.1) brought Unicode 9 emoji support to Samsung phones for the first time, as well as support for skin tone modifiers. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-biggest-ever-emoji-update/">More on this update</a>.

TouchWiz 7.1

White Spade Suit

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

Microsoft

Unicode 1.1 were pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by 17 years, and included many characters primarily sourced from the Zapf Dingbats font.

The following characters were added to Unicode in 1993 and many were given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

Microsoft Windows 11&nbsp;launched&nbsp;on 2021-10-05, and was the first version of Windows update to support&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. Emojis in this release are displayed in the thick outlined&nbsp;Segoe Color Emoji&nbsp;style from Windows 10, instead of the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">Fluent designs</a> previewed ahead of <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day 2021</a>.

Support for <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>&nbsp;was initially made available via Windows 10 Insiders Builds <a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1337183890063187971">in December 2020</a>.

Windows 11

Windows 10 May 2019 update began rolling out on 2019-05-21, and was the first Windows release to support <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-may-2019-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this release</a>.

Windows 10 May 2019 Update

Windows 10 October 2018 Update (often referred to as&nbsp;Fall 2018 Update&nbsp;prior to release) was released on October 2, 2018 and is the first Windows release to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.

This update also includes a number of&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-october-2018-update/changed/">changes</a>&nbsp;to emoji appearance.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-october-2018-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Windows 10 April 2018 Update (commonly referred to as&nbsp;Spring Creators Update&nbsp;prior to release) was released on April 30, 2018 and includes a number of <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-april-2018-update/changed/">changes</a> to emoji appearance mainly to bring emoji design in line with other platforms. No new emojis were added in this release. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-april-2018-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 April 2018 Update

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is the major release that followed <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-creators-update/">Windows 10 Creators Update</a>. Released on October 17, 2017 this update added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a> and changed the appearance of a number of existing emojis.

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Windows 10 Creators Update was the first major&nbsp;emoji update from Microsoft in 2017.

Released on April 11, 2017, this version added&nbsp;support for Emoji 4.0, and was the first update to support emojis for interracial couples. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-creators-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 Creators Update

Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version&nbsp;1607), aka &quot;Emojiversary Update&quot;&nbsp;was <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/06/29/windows-10-anniversary-update-available-august-2/">released</a> on August 2, 2016 and&nbsp;included&nbsp;a complete redesign of every emoji in the Segoe UI Emoji font.

This release&nbsp;also added support for <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9</a> emojis, as well as&nbsp;52,000 family combinations including single parent families and interracial families. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-emoji-families-come-to-windows/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update

The first release of Windows 10, version 1507,&nbsp;added support for emoji <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">modifiers</a>, as well as other changes to <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-emoji-changelog/">increase cross-platform consistency</a>. It was otherwise similar to <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/">Windows 8.1</a>.

This release was superceded by <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/">Windows 10 Anniversary Update</a> on August 2, 2016.

Windows 10

Windows 8 came with support for black and white emoji images out of the box, as part of the new Segoe UI Emoji font. This font was also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20120818/microsoft-backports-windows-8-emoji-for-segoe-ui-symbol-to-windows-7/">backported</a> for Windows 7 users, alongside the release of Windows 8.

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