Apple just rolled out the iOS 26.4 beta, and one of the most exciting things are new emoji. These come after the Unicode Consortium voted to bring the new emoji to iOS, Android, Windows, and more last year. Whether you find the full list of emoji useful will depend on what you and your friends talk about, but one that stands out as a perfect encapsulation of 2026 so far is the distorted face. Other keywords used by the Unicode Consortium to describe the Distorted Face emoji include anxiety, bloated, panic, shocked, surprised and vulnerable. There's a PDF document explaining the proposed use case of the new face. Here's the key takeaway:
