Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 24H2 quietly surfaced support for Emoji 16.0, completing the behind‑the‑scenes work that began with the August optional preview update and bringing the system emoji inventory up to the Unicode‑recommended total — but the experience is uneven...
Windows 11’s 24H2 is now shipping support for Emoji 16.0 — but there’s a catch: the system emoji panel doesn’t yet expose the new icons, and rendering remains inconsistent across apps and web services. What looks like a late-but-welcome Unicode update has instead exposed a long-standing Windows...