Apple could bring these nine new emojis to your iPhone with iOS 27: here’s what we know

Apple could be adding a few new emoji's to the iPhone with its upcoming iOS update if a new report is to be believed. As per Emojipedia, the Unicode Consortium has published the list of draft emojis which could come with iOS 27 update next year.

Reportedly, Unicode Emoji Standard & Research Working Group proposed 9 new emoji concepts along with 10 additional two skin modifiers.

The emojis that have proposed include:

A smiley face with squinting eyes

A leftward thumb sign gesture

A rightward thumb sign gesture

A monarch butterfly

A pickle

A lighthouse

A meteor

An eraser, for removing pencil markings from paper

A net with a handle

All these new emojis are currently draft candidates for Unicode Emoji 18.0 after which companies like Apple and Google will design their own versions of the emojis and add them to their upcoming software updates.

However, Apple has so far not implemented the Unicode Emoji 17.0 which includes emois like Shovel, Fingerprint and Beet among others. These new emojis are expected to debut with the company's big iOS 26.4 update around March or April.

If this timeline is to be followed, these new emojis could make their way potentially next around March with the iOS 27.4 update. Apple next big update is expected to be unveiled at the company's WWDC 26 event later in the year while the new update usually rolls out with the latest iPhone launches which happens in September every year. Meanwhile, the iPhone 17e which could launch in the next couple of months will come with iOS 26 onboard.

With so many emojis already being a part of the keyboard, the new emojis coming in each year aren't that big of a deal as it used to be. Meanwhile, Apple has also given the option to users to design their own emoji using the Genmoji feature which debuted as part of the company's AI feature suite (dubbed Apple Intelligence) with iOS 18. However, these features are restricted to only the newer iPhone model (iPhone 15 Pro and above) that support Apple Intelligence.

In terms of the iOS 27 update, not a lot has been known so far. However, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman had predicted last year that the new update would be a Snow Leopard-style update, taking inspiration from Mac OS X Snow Leopard launched in 2009. Just like that update, the focus is said to be on making subtle improvements and quality control rather than adding tons of new features.