Apple Emoji

Apple's proprietary emoji designs used across iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, known for their detailed, skeuomorphic style.

Apple was one of the first platforms to adopt emoji, adding support in iPhone OS 2.2 (2008, Japan-only) and globally in iOS 5 (2011). Apple's emoji designs are often considered the "reference" designs because of the iPhone's global reach.

Apple's emoji are designed in-house and are copyrighted — they cannot be freely used in other products. Their style tends toward detailed, glossy, 3D-like renderings, though Apple has moved toward a flatter style in recent versions.

Apple is generally fast to adopt new Unicode emoji releases and occasionally introduces platform-specific design changes that make headlines (like the pistol-to-water-gun change in iOS 10).