The Growing Heart emoji is used when you want to say that you love something even more than you already do. The increasing heart size indicating that it is filling up with even more love. Therefore, this emoji is a popular choice for reaction posts or sending to friends and family when commenting on one of their photos. Let’s say you are sent a picture of your friends new puppy, you could use the Growing Heart to suggest your heart is about to explode from over adorableness.The emoji can also be used to mimic the beating of a heart, especially in a romantic context. However, as there are already emojis purposed for this, you may want to check those out instead e.g the Beating Heart emoji. Last but not least, this emoji is popular with posters of fashion content who want to express just how much they love a new clothing item - and the Growing Heart is often accompanied by other popular pink heart emojis.

Approved in Unicode 6.0, Growing Heart was added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.