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Apple Highlights Upcoming 2019 Emoji in Celebration of World Emoji Day
In celebration of World Emoji Day tomorrow, Apple has shared details on new emoji that are coming to iOS devices this fall following the Unicode 12 emoji release.
Unicode 12 brings 59 new emoji characters, 75 with gender variations, and 230 total emojis when gender variations and different skin tones are counted.
Orangutan, sloth, otter, skunk, and flamingo are the new animals included in the update, while new food items include garlic, onion, waffle, falafel, butter, oyster, beverage box, maté, and ice cube.
New faces, gestures, and poses include yawning face, pinching hand, person kneeling, person standing, and new people holding hands options that are both gender and skin tone inclusive.
A full list of the emoji included in Unicode 12 are listed on the Emojipedia site.
Last year, Apple released new emoji in an iOS 12.1 update released in October, and the launch of new 2019 emoji could follow a similar timeline. New emoji won't be included in iOS 13 at launch, but could come in one of the first major updates to the new operating system.
Unicode 12 brings 59 new emoji characters, 75 with gender variations, and 230 total emojis when gender variations and different skin tones are counted.
Orangutan, sloth, otter, skunk, and flamingo are the new animals included in the update, while new food items include garlic, onion, waffle, falafel, butter, oyster, beverage box, maté, and ice cube.
New faces, gestures, and poses include yawning face, pinching hand, person kneeling, person standing, and new people holding hands options that are both gender and skin tone inclusive.
To celebrate World Emoji Day, Apple is previewing a selection of new emoji coming this fall, revealing the newest designs that bring even more diversity to the keyboard, alongside fun and exciting additions to popular categories of food, animals, activities and smiley faces.Several new accessibility-related emojis are included, such as ear with hearing aid, deaf person, mechanical arm/leg, person with cane, person in wheelchair, guide dog, wheelchair (manual and motorized), and probing cane.
In a major update to the Holding Hands emoji typically used to represent couples and relationships, users will now be able to select any combination of skin tone, in addition to gender, to personalize the people holding hands, opening up more than 75 possible combinations.
Following Apple’s proposal to the Unicode Consortium last year to introduce more disability-themed emoji, a new guide dog, an ear with a hearing aid, wheelchairs, a prosthetic arm and a prosthetic leg will be available in the emoji keyboard. Celebrating diversity in all its many forms is integral to Apple’s values and these new options help fill a significant gap in the emoji keyboard.Other miscellaneous emoji include Hindu Temple, auto rickshaw, parachute, ringed planet, diving mask, yo-yo, kite, safety vest, sari, one-piece swimsuit, briefs, shorts, ballet shoes, banjo, diya lamp, axe, drop of blood, bandage, stethoscope, chair, razor, white heart, and circles and squares in various new colors.
A full list of the emoji included in Unicode 12 are listed on the Emojipedia site.
Last year, Apple released new emoji in an iOS 12.1 update released in October, and the launch of new 2019 emoji could follow a similar timeline. New emoji won't be included in iOS 13 at launch, but could come in one of the first major updates to the new operating system.
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6 weeks ago
There are so many emojis that Apple needs better categorization of them in the keyboards. It takes too long to scroll around to find them. Also, there's no indicator of which ones have variations.
6 weeks ago
- complaint about political correctness of emoji? check
- blaming Tim Cook? check
- thinking emoji creation deters from hardware development efforts? check
- thinly veiled bigotry*? check
emoji thread is off to a good start, the forums never fail to let me down (or should that be 'always let me down')
:rolleyes:
edit to add: incorrect attribution of emoji to Apple rather than the unicode consortium? check
edit to also add: old person complaining that back in their day they only used latin characters to message? surprisingly missing
*changed homophobia to bigotry to avoid triggering forum members who are offended by implications they are frightened of LGBTQ+ individuals
- blaming Tim Cook? check
- thinking emoji creation deters from hardware development efforts? check
- thinly veiled bigotry*? check
emoji thread is off to a good start, the forums never fail to let me down (or should that be 'always let me down')
:rolleyes:
edit to add: incorrect attribution of emoji to Apple rather than the unicode consortium? check
edit to also add: old person complaining that back in their day they only used latin characters to message? surprisingly missing
*changed homophobia to bigotry to avoid triggering forum members who are offended by implications they are frightened of LGBTQ+ individuals
6 weeks ago
Yeah, that's what everyone was asking for... emojis. Not better devices.
6 weeks ago
There are so many emojis that Apple needs better categorization of them in the keyboards. It takes too long to scroll around to find them. Also, there's no indicator of which ones have variations.
It blows my mind that Apple hasn't implemented a search bar for emojis
6 weeks ago
Tim Cook’s legacy.
Apple doesn’t make the emoji, they’re a Unicode standard that Apple conforms to.
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And you know this because? Or are you just making stuff up again.
Anyone who works in software development knows this. There isn’t just one team at Apple doing everything.
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