iOS 26.4 Will Add These 9 New Emoji to Your iPhone
Jan 16, 2026
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.
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
LandslideNotably, Distorted Face is a popular emoji in Discord servers. It is essentially a distorted version of the embarassed face emoji.
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 26Tag: EmojiRelated Forum: iOS 26This article, "iOS 26.4 Will Add These 9 New Emoji to Your iPhone" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums
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