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A leaked image shows an animated version of 'Face with Party Horn and Party Hat' emoji in WhatsApp, suggesting it may soon be coming to the phones of people across the world soon.

Google has now announced a new set of emoji coming to Android, Chrome, and elsewhere and some of those will reportedly be animated. That’s based on recent news stemming from Google’s announcement.

The company has announced the addition of Unicode 15 emojis, animated emojis, colour customisations and more via an official Google Developers blog post. Emojis are everywhere.

Animated emojis: Bring emojis to life. Just hold the send button and slide up to animate. Android Auto support: Enjoy hands-free messaging when you’re on the go.

In light of World Emoji Day, here are 10 emojis we still need and 10 we'd be just fine without. 1. Conga parrot If this custom emoji isn't yet a part of your Slack channel, you need to catch up.

However, some regard Samsung’s AR Emoji as a half-baked version of Apple’s Animoji. CNET editors had the chance to try the Galaxy S9’s new feature and they conveyed that the experience was ...