Gone are the days you had to use the same plain-red heart emoji in every text, email, and Instagram caption. In 2023, your emoji keyboard features hearts in pretty much every colour, shape, and form, ...

Whoever said that a picture is worth a thousand words must not have foreseen the invention of the emoji. In the form of a tiny yet highly detailed graphic, the emoji not only represents the words we ...

When words fall short, emojis reign supreme. Sometimes, adding an extra sprinkle of emotion and love to our messages is all you need to go the extra mile. With so many different heart emojis, there ...

Even if you’re not a regular texter, you’re definitely familiar with emoji (that’s right, the plural is the same as the singular): they appear in advertising, in captions, and in videos. In 2015, ...

Soon after WIRED's global editorial director started in 2023, she sent me a message on Slack. By accident, I hearted it. A message from my very serious, very new boss ...

Snapchat offers a wide range of social media content for users to enjoy but doesn’t always offer much in terms of in-app explanations for how it all works. One feature that leaves many scratching ...

As part of iOS 14.5, Apple is adding new emoji from the Unicode Consortium’s Emoji 13.1 release, including skin tone options for some popular emoji and several new smiley faces and hearts. The company ...

Cast your mind back to Snapchat pre-April 2015, and you might remember a world without the Snapchat Emoji function. Back then, it was all about ‘Best Friends’ (do you remember that?!) and working out ...