There will reportedly be a total of 164 new digital hieroglyphics, released as part of the Emoji 17.0 and Unicode 17.0 beta.

Yes, there is an official organization in charge of emojis, called the Unicode Consortium – and it's just put forward its annual proposal for the new graphics we might be seeing on the best iPhones and best Android phones in the next year or two.

Macworld Back in May, we got a glimpse of the next round of emoji coming to our iPhones next year, including a harp, shovel, and a face with bags under its eyes, but the Unicode Consortium is already looking ahead to the following release—and one of them will be very familiar to Apple fans.