The growing heart is the “my feelings just leveled up” button: affection expanding, warmth intensifying, and that extra-adorable rush when a puppy yawns or your friend nails a life milestone. It’s the go-to for soft, gushy vibes—often paired with the pleading face 🥺 for maximum uwu energy—and a favorite in stan culture captions when your bias breathes and your soul ascends. People use it flirty-but-wholesome, proud-parent style (“look at you!”), or even playfully sarcastic when pretending to be moved (“wow, my heart… grew… so much”). Bonus meme credit to The Grinch: “my heart grew three sizes” is basically this emoji in text form.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a glossy hot‑pink heart front and center, with two lighter pink, concentric heart layers behind it, like ripples of emotion pushing outward—no face, no sparkles, just pure expansion. The styling is smooth and slightly 3D with a gentle top-left highlight and soft shading, all shown straight-on so the stacking effect reads instantly. It screams “feelings: unlocked,” perfect for celebrating glow-ups, comfort-show binges, and those wholesome posts that make your serotonin do parkour.
Definition
The love is growing in this one and the heart is pink but we love Apple Computer none the less. iEmoji old definition: Love that is cute is expressed.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
