New emoji coming to iPhone and Android in 2024

The Unicode Consortium — the non-profit group overseeing the standardization of text and emoji in software — has unveiled seven new proposed emoji, which if vetted could appear on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices starting later in 2024. These include a beet, a harp, a shovel, a fingerprint, a leafless tree, a purple liquid splatter, and a face with baggy eyes. The face is so far available only in yellow, unlike a growing number of emoji available with realistic skin tone options.