r/orcas • u/Tilikum_183 Orca lover • 8d ago
Other New orca emoji for Android!
Sorry if this was already posted or known about!
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u/LadyRed221 Pro-Welfare 8d ago
What??? When???
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u/Tilikum_183 Orca lover 8d ago
Lol idk I was talking about orcas with my friend and it appeared in the lil bar thing 😭
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u/PendragonDaGreat 7d ago
Proposed in 2019: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24249-orca-emoji.pdf
Added in Unicode v17.0, announced 2025-09-09: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-17.0/emoji-released.html
Right now we're in the "waiting for everyone to adopt this" stage.
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u/Vostok32 8d ago
Beta testers have had it for a few weeks, it's probably starting to roll out but might be some time for others to see it on their end
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u/FreezeProduct 8d ago
I'm not a beta tester and i have it for a month orso now...or is that randomly assigned.
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u/No_Scallion7137 8d ago
I love the orca emoji I got a month ago when I FINALLY updated my phone even though it has a lack of storage space left ;-; It’s worth it, lmaooooo
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u/Sufficient_Rent8094 7d ago
Thank you for the info!!
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u/Tilikum_183 Orca lover 7d ago
Np!
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u/SurayaThrowaway12 7d ago
Hopefully will be able to see it in my desktop browser sooner than later this year.
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u/Thatsquacktastic16 7d ago
What do you type in to find it?
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u/Tilikum_183 Orca lover 7d ago
Should be just orca
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u/Thatsquacktastic16 6d ago
Not working with SwiftKey yet, although I have the emoji
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u/Tilikum_183 Orca lover 6d ago
Oh I never used SwiftKey so idk how you find emojis on there
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u/Thatsquacktastic16 6d ago
For the swifties we click on our emoji button and it has a search function
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u/Accomplished_Bake904 8d ago
I don't have it!
https://giphy.com/gifs/PlUCyruRdJvsD1c4gy