These have been the standard emoji flags available on most platforms until now," explained emojipedia in a Feb. 23 post. "This emoji update introduces 27 more country flags into its emoji picker." ...

Most of the Unicode 16.0 emoji, by contrast, are their own unique characters. The one exception is the Sark flag emoji; flag sequences are created by placing two "regional indicator letters ...

As part of Apple's iOS 18.4 update, iPhone users will have access to eight new emoji - but there is one face that everyone already says is their favourite.