Apple is adding new iOS 16.4 emojis to the thousands already available. That's a lot of little pictures. But they don't always mean what you think.

One face, many moods. The melting face emoji has been embraced as a symbol of the times. Credit: Google via The New York Times We loved this emoji because it was barely hanging on, just like the ...

The upside-down smiley face emoji was released in Apple emojis in 2015. However, Google released their own version in 2008 and it has been around ever since. Most read in Tech ...

In that moment, an emoji often deployed with a dose of irony turned curiously sincere. As laid-off designer Audrey Davis observed, she never thought the saluting face would make her “sob.” ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

The face with cowboy hat (鸞), cherries ( ), and upside down face emoji ( ) all tend to cause some confusion, with survey responders indicating that these emoji are most often misunderstood.

Teddy, a 10-year-old Apple fan from the UK, has started a petition calling on Apple to redesign the “nerd face” glasses emoji.