Jeremy Burge, founder of emojipedia:

A mysterious new emoji has shown up in the developer previews of iOS 9.1 & OS X 10.11.1, and nobody knows what it is, or why it exists.

To a casual observer, this appears to be just another emoji – one of many planned for the iOS 9.1 emoji update. But the strange thing about this character (which Apple calls “eye in speech bubble”) is that it’s not a standard Unicode addition. It can’t be found in Unicode 1.1, or any other version right through to the Unicode 9.0 candidates.

It’s a mystery. Another Monday morning curiosity.