Apple’s latest iOS beta — 26.4 beta 4 — rolled out this week and came with a serious upgrade in emoji.
Your mileage may vary on what’s technically new, but iOS 26.4 beta 4 brings a total of 163 new emoji designs. There are 13 truly new emoji concepts (which we’ve seen before), and then 150 new skin tone variations for the existing wrestling and people with bunny ears emoji.
The emoji-focused resource, Emojipedia, helpfully published a first look at all the new emoji. They appear to be variations on the new emojis introduced by Unicode — the nonprofit that standardizes digital characters — last year.
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The new concepts, as shown above, include a distorted face, a so-called fight cloud, a bigfoot-esque creature (technically, it’s known as the “hairy creature”), an orca, a landslide, a treasure chest, and a ballerina in various skin tones. These are long-expected updates to emoji, as we covered back in 2025, but now they’re starting to roll out.
Hairy creature, aka Bigfoot, appears to be the most anticipated of the new emoji. Personally, I think the fight cloud emoji has a bright future, especially for anyone who loved Saturday morning cartoons back in the day.
To see all the new emoji introduced in iOS 26.4, head to Emojipedia.
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