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1. IOS 10.2 EMOJIS ON ANDROID UPDATE
2. IOS 10.2 EMOJIS ON ANDROID FOR ANDROID
3. IOS 10.2 EMOJIS ON ANDROID ANDROID

Adding to that are companies such as Samsung that roll their own emoji set, usually behind the pace of Google's own updates.Ībove: Emojis as they appear on Samsung devices.

IOS 10.2 EMOJIS ON ANDROID UPDATE

Other vendors tend to be less specific about if or when they may update any phones in the future. Emoji updates generally arrive between September-December each year.

IOS 10.2 EMOJIS ON ANDROID ANDROID

Stock Android has been very prompt with emoji updates recently, and the Pixel is a good way to get these updates quickly.Īpple tends to support new software updates on iPhone for around four years. Thankfully, Google currently has a Pixel range of phones which are stated to support the latest Android releases for at least two years. What to doĪ phone that can't see the last 12+ months of new emojis is crippled as a communication device. While this requires more effort from app developers (native emoji support is much simpler to support), it may the best outcome for users who would otherwise be stuck not sure what people are sending. Given the slow state of Android rollouts from major vendors, apps have taken emoji support into their own hands.

IOS 10.2 EMOJIS ON ANDROID FOR ANDROID

WhatsApp and Telegram even use Apple's own emoji images on Android, and makes a custom keyboard to display them:Ībove: WhatsApp for Android uses Apple's emoji images. Snapchat, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack all use emoji-replacement images on Android in a trend started by Twitter with Twemoji which was released when the most popular browser on Windows (Chrome) didn't include emoji support. With numbers like that, it's no wonder so many apps are providing their own custom emoji support these days. Google's own statistics on Android version share show worse results with under 1% using Android 7.0 Nougat. Just 4% of Android users are using any variation of 7.x Nougat (released in August-September 2016), resulting in 96 out of 100 Android users not seeing the latest emojis: Looking at Emojipedia statistics for the start of 2017, the lack of Android users running any new version is stark.Ībove: Emojipedia visitor stats for January 2017. These aren't old phones not getting updates: they're brand new phones running an out of date OS. "Marshmallow isn't in itself bad, but it's no longer either the latest or greatest from Google." Vlad Savov reported in September : most phones at IFA (large tech show in Europe) were running a year-old version of Android. This system should work well, but the weak link is relying on manufacturers to provide updates in a timely manner. New emojis are bundled with system updates for iOS and Android, as emoji fonts and relevant Unicode support is provided at an OS level. The rest of the new emojis came months later in iOS 10.2 in December 2016.

This was some timely updating from Google, especially compared to previous years.Ībove: Unicode 9 emojis as shown on Android Nougat.īy contrast, iOS didn't include any new emoji updates until iOS 10 in September. Unicode 9 support was first added to Android 7.0 in August, followed by genders and professions which arrived with 7.1 in October 2016.

Yet the vast majority of Android users still can't see these new emojis. Support for the latest emojis came to Android in the major Nougat release in August of 2016. The Google design team were months ahead of Apple with new emoji in the past year.