Apple recently rolled out iOS 26.4 to iPhone users, and with it came a bunch of handy upgrades and new features, including Playlist Playground for Apple Music and improvements to Stolen Device Protection.
But I especially love it when Apple drops a bunch of new emojis — and I've been enjoying the rather eclectic selection introduced with iOS 26.4.
If these new emojis look familiar, you might have been running the iOS 26.4 beta 4, which initially revealed them, but they're now widely available to all iPhone users who have updated their phones to iOS 26.4. You can also access the new emojis on an iPad via the iPadOS 26.4 update.
Incidentally, two existing emojis — People Wrestling and Dancers with Bunny Ears — have also been updated to match Apple's 150 new skin tone combination options.
Could this be the final emoji drop of Tim Cook's time as CEO? He'll be ceding his position at Apple to John Ternus in September, so it's possible. And while we wait for him to tweet his favorite icon from the new update (that's bound to happen, right?), the TechRadar team would love to know which new iPhone emoji you are enjoying most.
Scroll down to take part in our poll (or vote in the TechRadar WhatsApp channel if you prefer), but first, here's a quick reminder of the eight new emojis that arrived in the iOS 26.4 update:
iOS 26.4 new emojis
- Ballet Dancer
- Distorted Face
- Fight Cloud
- Hairy Creature (sasquatch/bigfoot)
- Landslide
- Orca
- Treasure Chest
- Trombone
Which new emoji are you enjoying the most?
Check back in a few days, when we'll have the results of the poll, and can crown your most popular emoji from the iOS 26.4 update in a dedicated article. Voting closes at 7am ET / 12pm BST / 9pm AEST on April 27.
