iOS 10 Beta 4 Includes Dozens of New Emoji Promoting Gender Equality

[MacRumors]

Today's iOS 10 update includes more than 100 new emoji with expanded gender options for a wide range of activities and professions, allowing users to choose a man or a woman when expressing themselves through emoji.

Emoji that previously only featured men, such as the cyclist, swimmer, police officer, and construction worker, are now available for either gender, and emoji that previously featured only women, such as the haircut emoji or the massage emoji, now also feature men. All of the new emoji are also available in a range of different skin tones.

More than one hundred new and redesigned emoji characters will be available to iPhone and iPad users this Fall with iOS 10. This exciting update brings more gender options to existing characters, including new female athletes and professionals, adds beautiful redesigns of popular emoji, a new rainbow flag and more family options.

The new emoji come following changes to Unicode implemented in July by the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, which include male and female versions of 33 existing emoji. The change also included a range of new professions from scientist to doctor to cook, but Apple does not appear to have added these.

iOS 10 beta 4 is currently available for developers and can be downloaded from the Apple Developer Center or over-the-air on devices running previous iOS 10 betas. Apple will likely release a new public beta containing the emoji later this week, and a worldwide public release will come in the fall alongside new iOS devices.

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[Paradoxally]

I would have much rather had a bacon emoji, but hey, you can't win them all.

 

[kolax]

Great, two of everything.

Better pick the right one or be called sexist.

Can we not just go back to gender neutral emojis where it was all simple?

 

[freepomme]

How thoughtful.

 

[Schwyz]

Welp.

but hey, at least it's not another watch band.

 

[Adam-Jobs]

What is this world coming to...

 

[heeloliver]

This thread is going to blow up.

 

[RobCoenen]

Even though it sounds strange, this is the best way to have everyone update their phone to the latest software.
Most of the people I know don't care about their software version, but when I told them the middle finger emoji was included in iOS 9.1, everyone started to update their phones.

 

[testcard]

The rising tide of emoji poses a greater threat than global warming.

 

[SBlue1]

Great, two of everything.

Better pick the right one or be called sexist.

Can we not just go back to gender neutral emojis where it was all simple?

Looks like you are not the target audience for those. My much younger coworkers love emojis. They text all day long. They would never ever think about using the phone for an actual phone call. So I can see this being a very welcome upgrade for a lot of young people.

 

[RedOrchestra]

Prepare for complaints about lack of innovation and "Tim Cook sucks" comments

NO NEED ... the iOS 10 update speaks all that in volumes.

 

[Col4bin]

Oh boy, here we go again.

Cue all the "kumbaya" and "can't we all just get along!" versus the "this is ridiculous" and "Steve Jobs would have never..." quotes!

 

[RedOrchestra]

The rising tide of emoji poses a greater threat than global warming.

Right up there with coffee pods.

 

[fhall1]

Sad what Apple is now....watchbands and emojis...but no new MBP hardware

 

[TC03]

iOS 10 beta 4 is faster than iOS 9.2 was. Folder animation is super fast now.

 

[Dydegu]

Cool. Again, a great way to get everyone on iOS 10 when it comes out.

 

[larzy]

Not a fan of the new 3D style design/look. I think the current style looks way better and more simple.

 

[keysofanxiety]

My bet's on 7 minutes before this thread moves to PRSI. Any takers?

 

[eniaczz]

wow, they have a cute two men dancing emoji now

 

[PipSeg]

When they updated the emojis before that allowed users to choose the skin color, I had a thought that it just makes sense that a user should also be able to also choose whether it is a female or male emoji for that specific case.
I welcome new emojis, especially the male haircut one.

 

[Zirel]

Cool, there are some I would like to use.

 

[Z400Racer37]

If they set them all back to yellow again because racism or whatever, I'm officially gonna lose. My. Marbles. O.O

 

[Born Again]

Hmm - so many emojis - so little time.

 

[Kaibelf]

What is this world coming to...

Yeah women should be making pies for their men, right?

 

[alexmarchuk]

"Unicode Emoji Subcommittee"

oh my god...