iOS 26.4 adds new emoji to your iPhone, here’s what’s coming

OS 26.4 beta 4 rolled out today for developers, with brand new emoji for iPhone users. Here are all the new emoji coming with iOS 26.4.

The distorted face emoji is the perfect way to sum up 2026 so far — and it's coming to your iPhone in iOS 26.4

If you can't relate to this new emoji, maybe you haven't been paying attention to 2026 so far.
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This retro emoji ‘font’ brings us back to the beautiful basics

The inimitable Jennifer Daniel, a Unicode Emoji Subcommittee-Chair, wrote about a new effort to take emojis back to their humble roots. Before we had our gleaming set of 3,633 emoji characters like ...
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iOS 26.4 brings eight new emoji to iPhone

Apple revealed eight iOS 26.4 new emoji coming to iPhone including Distorted Face, Fight Cloud, Bigfoot, Orca, and Treasure Chest.