New emoji for iPhone and Android postponed because of coronavirus pandemic

New emoji have been delayed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. There will be no new characters next year as the volunteers who help create them are struggling to deal with the health situation across the world, according to the Unicode Consortium, which organises new emoji releases. The new emoji that were announced earlier this year – which include transgender representation and extinct animals – are still expected to make their way to iPhone, Android and other platforms through the course of 2020. But the new updates that would have been planned for 2021 have been pushed back to the following year. Version 14 of Unicode's standards, which would have included the new characters, has been delayed by six months, it said.