Did you know that there is now a harp emoji?! If ever there was a must-have addition to your phone, this has got to be it!
It wouldn’t be surprising if you hadn’t heard – this just happened recently. The Harp emoji was approved as part of the latest update by the standards organization. It was published in Unicode16.0 and Emoji 16.0 in September 2024 and was introduced on iPhones last week.
This might be the most exciting tech news of 2025!
It will be challenging to use the harp emoji to mean anything except harp-y stuff (no weird fruit or veg connotations here) so you should feel free to use it everywhere you would normally emoji-ate.
I’m not a phone tech genius, but if you’d like to add this brilliant emoji to your device, you can wait for your phone update – rollouts will be going on throughout the year. But if you just can’t wait, I found directions (no assuring they are the best, just info I found) here for Android or here for iOS.
Usually I talk about things I actually know. This isn’t really in my knowledge space, and I encourage you to read up on it if you’re interested. Here are some of the references I used:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/harp-emoji-1.7328612
https://emojipedia.org/harp#emoji
I’m going to wait until it gets pushed to my phone but if you’re an early adopter, I’d love to hear about how you go with adding the harp emoji to your phone. Let me know in the comments!