Unicode Consortium Approves Trombone Emoji

🎉 New Emojis Are Coming to iPhone with iOS 26 — and Yes, There’s a Fight Cloud

Get ready to express yourself in even weirder ways — because a fresh batch of emojis has been approved and will soon be marching their way onto your iPhone with the upcoming iOS 26 update. And no, Apple doesn’t just toss emoji spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. That important job falls to the Unicode Consortium — a group of very serious people who basically decide how we laugh, cry, or passive-aggressively text "fine 🙃" in emoji form. RE…

Unicode Consortium Approves Trombone Emoji

Ska heads have been waiting for this: A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other approved emoji from Unicode 17.0 include ballet dancers, a fight cloud, a landslide, an Orca, a Treasure Chest, a distorted face, a Hairy Creature (Bigfoot), and an Apple Core. Not into the Bigfoot-trombone power combo? I’m not sure how, but the appl…