iOS 18.4 Beta Adds New Emoji: Face With Eye Bags, Splatter, Fingerprint, Shovel and More

Monday March 3, 2025 11:20 am PST by Juli Clover

In the second iOS 18.4 beta that Apple released today, there are a selection of new emoji characters, including bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter.

The emojis are part of the Unicode 16 Standard that was released in September 2024.

It often takes Apple several months to create artwork for new emoji characters that are approved, so it is no surprise that we're not seeing the September 2024 emoji until now.

Apple last added new emoji with the iOS 17.4 update that came out in March 2024, introducing lime, an edible brown mushroom, a phoenix, a broken chain, shaking head vertically (as in a "yes" nod), and shaking head horizontally (a "no" head shake).

Next year, we'll get the Unicode 17 emoji, and those characters include hairy creature (like Bigfoot), distorted face, fight cloud, apple core, orca, trombone, landslide, and treasure chest.

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Top Rated Comments

staypuftforums

18 months ago

Can’t innovate anymore, my ass.

Eggplant emoji + splatter emoji… we think you’re going to love it.

Score: 24 Votes (Like | Disagree)

carrrrrlos

18 months ago

Glad to see Apple’s keeping up w/ emoji dev. I mean, why spend time on ai right?

Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)

WarmWinterHat

18 months ago

Who is still using emojis at this point? My whole group chat uses gifs. Much more fun and expressive.

Everyone I know.

Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)

chrono1081

18 months ago

Emoji’s is what Apple considers innovation these days! Hamsters running the asylum.

This rhetoric is exhausting. Apple is simply conforming to the Unicode standard. Apple doesn’t make the emoji the Unicode consortium determines what is created, tech companies simply conform.

Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)