Wordle is one of the biggest things on the internet. Every day, millions of players flock to the NYT to solve the word puzzle ...

Instagram has hidden an emoji-based game within the direct messaging feature of their smartphone app — and people are just now noticing it. As if anyone needed it, there's a new way to kill time ...

The goal of the game is simple: Use your finger to move the paddle at the bottom of your screen to keep your emoji afloat and continuously bouncing. Drop your emoji, and it’s game over.

Emojli, an instant messaging app that allows users to communicate solely with emoji, no letters or punctuation allowed. Even usernames are required to be strictly made up of the miniature icons only.

At the moment, only developers who already have iOS 26 beta will be able to play the Emoji Game. Apple's new mobile OS, which the company announced at WWDC, will be released to the public this fall .

WhatsApp could be about to change its emoji game by adding support for animated emojis for the first time. The feature is said to be ready for beta testing.

Other platforms, including Apple, offer emoji suggestions as you type, but Gboard is today upping its game by offering suggested GIF searches in the suggestion strip, too.

Finally, the feature everyone has been asking for: Gmail 👏 emoji 👏 reactions 👏. You can now reply to an email just like it's an instant messaging chat, tacking on a "crying laughing ...