It’s official: We’re getting a pickle emoji next year. On Tuesday, July 14, the Unicode Consortium announced the nine new emoji you’ll see on your device in 2027. One new emoji is the pickle, and that means the eggplant’s reign as the go-to emoji for male anatomy could be coming to an end. Here are the nine new emoji you will see on your device next year.
A cracking face
A leftward thumb sign gesture
A rightward thumb sign gesture
A monarch butterfly
A pickle
A lighthouse
A meteor
An eraser
A net with a handle
The Unicode Consortium originally proposed a squinty face emoji in 2025. However, the Unicode Emoji Standard & Research Working Group recommended changing that emoji to a cracking face in January. Honestly, the cracking face emoji feels more relevant to today than the squinty face emoji.
The squinty face read as suspicious while the cracking face emoji screams, “I’m putting on a brave face in these trying times.” If that’s not the most relatable sentiment these days, I don’t know what is.
While the Unicode Consortium approved these emoji, companies like Apple and Samsung still need to design and then implement their versions of the emoji. Those companies usually add the emoji to devices as part of a software update in the spring, so you likely won’t see these emoji on your phone until 2027. Before these emoji land on your device, the Unicode Consortium will begin fielding proposals for the next round of new emoji. Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji, and the Unicode Consortium usually uploads proposed new emoji to a public document late in the year. For example, the upcoming emoji were originally accepted in October, 2025.
For more on emoji, here’s how to decipher every emoji and the newest emoji on your iPhone and Android. Zachary McAuliffe
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Zach began writing for Bioreports in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a TV series with his wife and their dog.
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