Lots of emojis are going to get a new look in Google apps, starting from this month, the company has announced.
Google has lifted the lid on almost 1,000 emoji redesigns that will be arriving in Android 12 later this year. They’ll also be appearing in Gmail and Chrome OS even earlier than that, with the new cartoon icons arriving at some point this month. The emoji that we all use on our phones and laptops have to be approved by the official Unicode organization, but then these little glyphs get reworked and reimagined by Google, Microsoft, Apple and others – that’s why emojis look different on different devices. In a new blog post, Google says it’s « polishing up » hundreds of its emoji designs, making them « more universal, accessible and authentic » in the process.
