Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" and "fist bump" symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji Day . World Emoji Day started in 2014. It's celebrated every year on July 17 because ...

2. Tap into your emoji keyboard, which is the smiley in the bottom left corner. 3. In the search bar, type the emoji you want to create, like "raven on a book." 4. Tap Create New Emoji.

And new emoji are on the way. A draft list of 164 emoji candidates is set for approval by the Unicode Consortium in September2025, which could bring the total to 3,954 emoji once officially released.