Following other UI tweaks in recent months, the emoji, GIF, sticker, and emoticon picker in Gboard has received a small ...

A report last year revealed that WhatsApp was working on its own animated emoji, something that its competitor Telegram already has. After introducing the first animated emoji in beta for Android ...

Why? Well, blame Apple. The feature, which was set to offer animated versions of classic iOS emoji, apparently violated Apple's rules on the use of its trademarked emoji designs. "Our upcoming ...

The new implementation allows all of the collaborators on a specific playlist to provide emoji reactions, similar to how tapback reactions work in Messages. To add an emoji reaction, play a ...

the animated emojis will be sent by default when the animated version of a certain emoji is available. These animated emojis are designed by using Lottie, an optimised library of animated emojis.