The way you use this emoji decides whether you’re Gen Z or not - Emojis can also take on distinct meanings depending on the ...

Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

Emojis, as well as memes and other forms of short-form content, have become central to how we express ourselves and connect ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

For Gen Z, though, this lack of care for punctuation goes beyond casual text messages. One millennial wrote about how ...

Apple added eight new emoji to all iPhones when the company released iOS 18.4 in March, and Samsung brought those same emoji to some devices in April with the initial release of One UI 7. The new ...

Estate Planning Smiley Faces in Serious Places: Emoji Use Pops Up in Legal Battles Over Inheritances Estate planning attorney notes how emojis are crossing over from casual conversation to litigation.

Gen Z co-opted the smiley face emoji, but beware — it means something totally different to them What used to be the universal symbol of warmth and joy has taken a sinister turn – at least in ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above. “Emoji use may be related to ...

From a simple thumbs up to a laughing cowboy, there is an emoji for almost any conceivable moment. But it is the humble smiley face which is the most iconic of them all.

Read more: Everything You Need to Know About iOS 18 Here's how you can use all your emoji and stickers to react to texts in Messages. You can also check out everything you need to know about iOS 18.4.