New Emoji 2022: These are the new emoji coming out this year - and the new emoji in iOS 15.4 beta

New Emoji 2022: All the new emoji coming out this year - and what are the new emoji in iOS 15.4 beta? (Image credit: Marcelo Mollaretti via Canva Pro)

Here are the new emoji set to roll out on the next Apple iOS update and across other devices in 2022

Emoji have become an intrinsic part of our lives and have shaped our interactions online since being first developed as cute, small and web-friendly pictographs in the late 90s.

Once known by the less catchy name of ‘emoticons’, emoji have come a long way since first appearing on the internet as the pixelated colour symbols first created in 1999 by Japanese artist, Shigetaka Kurita.

These tiny illustrations paved the way for different assortments and versions for years to come, with the emoji we use today enjoyed worldwide thanks to their recognition by Unicode – an international computer encoding standard that assigns letters, digits and symbols a unique numerical code to turn make them universally accessible across different browsers, search engines, platforms and devices.

These are just some of the emoji from the latest emoji release which are currently available in Apple's iOS 15.4 update in beta mode (Image courtesy of Emojipedia)

More than 3,600 emoji exist to help us represent our mood, identity, places, food, animals and more – and there’s even a World Emoji Day to celebrate the colourful symbols and smilies filling our social media feeds and messages.

Today, more than 700 million emoji can be found in Facebook posts every day and 92% of the world’s online population use emoji in their communications.

With Apple among the tech companies set to embrace the new emoji approved last year in its latest software update, iOS 15.4, here’s what you need to know about 2022’s new emoji, what they are and when they’ll be available.