India, Jan. 14 -- Apple iOS 27 will bring new emojis to iPhone users in India, but the iOS 27 emojis are expected to arrive months after the main software update. The next significant iOS release will be iOS 27, but this will not be released until later in the year 2026, about September as is the common time of year Apple releases significant iOS versions. But there is preliminary activity on one small yet hugely expected portion of that update: some new emojis that might appear on iPhones under iOS 27 or a later point release.

The Unicode Consortium, the standards organisation that sets the emoji characters of phones across the globe, is laying the groundwork now. A preview of possible new emojis - a section of new Emoji 18.0 (Unicode 1...