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iOS 26.4 Will Add These 9 New Emoji to Your iPhone

Last year, the Unicode Consortium previewed some of the new emoji that are expected to be added to the iPhone with iOS 26.4 in March or April.

iOS 26 Emoji Feature
Here are nine of the new emoji:

  • Trombone
  • Treasure Chest
  • Distorted Face
  • Hairy Creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch)
  • Fight Cloud
  • Apple Core
  • Orca
  • Ballet Dancers
  • Landslide

Notably, Distorted Face is a popular emoji in Discord servers. It is essentially a distorted version of the embarassed face emoji.

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Apple most recently added new emoji to the iPhone with iOS 18.4, an update that came out in March last year. iOS 17.4, iOS 16.4, and iOS 15.4 also introduced new emoji over the years, so the timing has become predictable by this point.

On the iPhone 15 Pro and newer, there is an Apple Intelligence feature called Genmoji that allows you to create your own emoji, or combine existing ones.

The new emoji listed above would be added directly to the iPhone's emoji keyboard.

Related Roundups: iOS 26, iPadOS 26
Tag: Emoji
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Top Rated Comments

10 weeks ago
How exciting new emoji……now what about the bugs and making the user interface usable?
Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)
JilzVT Avatar
10 weeks ago
Here's the landslide one since the article omitted it for some reason

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Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
10 weeks ago
What I would actually like is greater stability and efficiency.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
10 weeks ago
I am so impressed with Cook's ability to innovate. These emoji are absolutely fantastic and symbolic of Apple's future.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ProbablyDylan Avatar
10 weeks ago
Gemini integration? Nah. Emojis.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Porco Avatar
10 weeks ago
I’ve tried looking for the Hairy Creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch) emoji but I can’t find it anywhere. I’m beginning to think it’s a hoax, but I keep reading more reports that it is a real emoji.

I’m still not convinced it isn’t just a person emoji wearing a suit emoji.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)