An Irish emoji expert has warned parents about hidden meanings behind popular emojis - such as the cat face, dynamite and chair - after Netflix’s Adolescence highlighted how young people can be radicalised online through coded language.

Apple introduced new emojis in its iOS 18.4 update, and the facial expression one may be very apropos for some users.

Meanwhile, smiley faces and hand gestures can also indicate secret meanings – such as the upside-down face to signal annoyance, the clown emoji to signal getting caught in a mistake, or the woozy face emoji to express drunkenness or sexual arousal.

Another wrote: 'That tired face emoji is something I will be using constantly ... These have been selected from the September 2024 recommendations list created by the Unicode Consortium, the ...

An expert reveals the hidden meanings behind emojis that parents should look out for - including the cat face, dynamite and chair emoji. Keith Broni, 35, reveals the images that parents should ...

The new iOS update — 18.4 — is available now and includes priority notifications, an expanded availability of Apple Intelligence to new languages, a recipes section for News Plus subscribers, and some changes to Photos.

Apple has already released the latest iOS 18.4 update and it’s available to download and install now. Why would you want to do that? Well there are a whole host of new additions, but, surely eight brand new emoji are enough of a draw on their own.