Meet the 9 new emoji to help sum up 2026
THE SO WHAT
Nine new emoji from Unicode — including a pickle and cracked smiling face — are a reminder that visual shorthand keeps expanding. For consumer apps, especially chat and social, keeping emoji support current is table stakes for feeling native to users’ language.
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