World Emoji Day 2026
📅 Friday, July 17, 2026
📝 About World Emoji Day 2026
Founded in 2014 by Jeremy Burge, creator of Emojipedia, World Emoji Day falls on July 17 because that date appears on the calendar emoji in Apple's iOS — chosen because it was the date Apple announced iCal at MacWorld in 2002. The first emoji set was created in 1999 by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita for NTT DoCoMo, comprising 176 simple 12x12 pixel icons. Today the Unicode Standard includes over 3,600 emoji, and an estimated 10 billion are sent daily across messaging platforms worldwide. Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft regularly use World Emoji Day to announce upcoming additions, and the day has sparked serious linguistic research into how emoji function as a supplementary communication system transcending language barriers.
📋 Quick Facts
- Date
- Friday, July 17, 2026
- Day of the Week
- Friday
- Days Remaining
- 75
- Category
- Fun Days
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
There are 75 days until World Emoji Day 2026 on Friday, July 17, 2026.
World Emoji Day 2026 is on Friday, July 17, 2026.
Founded in 2014 by Jeremy Burge, creator of Emojipedia, World Emoji Day falls on July 17 because that date appears on the calendar emoji in Apple's iOS — chosen because it was the date Apple announced iCal at MacWorld in 2002. The first emoji set was created in 1999 by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita for NTT DoCoMo, comprising 176 simple 12x12 pixel icons. Today the Unicode Standard includes over 3,600 emoji, and an estimated 10 billion are sent daily across messaging platforms worldwide. Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft regularly use World Emoji Day to announce upcoming additions, and the day has sparked serious linguistic research into how emoji function as a supplementary communication system transcending language barriers.
World Emoji Day 2026 falls on a Friday.