T he flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.

Syrian flag emoji. (X) ALBAWABA - A day after the collapse of the Syrian regime and the escape of former President Bashar Assad to Russia, activists called on Apple and Android to change the emoji ...

Apple has included a number of new emoji in the iOS 18.4 developer beta, ... Apple also updated the Syrian flag Emoji to reflect the current de facto flag of the country.

The Sark flag is now also available, while the Syrian flag Emoji has been updated to reflect the current de facto flag of the country. iOS 18.4 developer beta 2 features new Emoji characters.

The inclusion of a new flag was notable because of Unicode Consortium’s flag policy — in 2022, it stopped producing new emojis for flags. “Sark flag emoji is crazy maybe a grand total of 3 ...

A youth displays a Syrian opposition flag as he drives along the Umayyad Square in Damascus. Credit: AP It later became the national flag when Syria became independent in 1946.