News & Reviews:   emoji

Apart from Waze, Google Maps is also one of the most used apps to navigate around Malaysia. That said, Google just updated the app with a new feature - adding emojis to your favourite places.

WhatsApp Stickers have been a thing since 2018, making our chat on the app more colourful and fun. Now, the Meta-owned messaging platform is further improving the feature with Stickers suggestions based on the emoji that you’re planning to key in.

Google has announced a few updates regarding its work on emojis on Android as well as other Google products. These include Unicode 15 emoji additions, animated versions of Android’s emojis and more!

It's always exciting to find out there's an addition of new emojis. This time, Unicode Consortium is considering adding 31 new emojis to Emoji 15. Therefore, it might be time to update your current most-used emojis with these new ones!

Not sure about you, but we've been enjoying using the emoji reactions on WhatsApp. If you're not, it's probably because you can't find your favourite emojis from the limited six options. Soon, you might love it as not only you can react with all the emojis but also GIFs.

Pulling down your mask just to unlock your iPhone or do an online transaction can be pretty annoying. But today, Apple has finally released the much-awaited iOS 15.4 with a new Face ID Mask Unlock, as well as other updates. 

As we're approaching the end of 2021, it's time to review what has happened throughout the year. Other than Spotify Wrapped, Unicode has also revealed the emojis most used by people in 2021. Emoji is a thing that most of us can't live without when sending out texts or writing a caption, so it's interesting to find out which one of them gets used by us frequently.

So apparently, Twitter has been releasing surveys to random Twitter users on their thoughts of having several emoji reactions. If you think that sounds like Facebook's emoji reaction, that's exactly what it is. No plans are in motion yet, as a Twitter spokesperson told Techcrunch.com that they are just exploring other ways for users to express themselves in conversions.

So yeah... for those who use the standard laughing emoji, it has now been deemed "uncool" by Gen Z. Reported by CNN, most Gen Z (majority from the US) now think the laughing emoji is not cool anymore for some reason. Here are some snippets of what the Gen Z youngsters think.

In this short announcement, you might have spotted a red-themed Like react icon on your Facebook page. If you thought it was a colour error, it's not but it's in conjunction with the Chinese New Year celebration that's happening on 12 February 2021.