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70+ New Emoji Characters to Be Included in Upcoming iOS 12.1 Update
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Good thing the “critical” fixes are given priority....
I doubt the people coming up with new graphics for the latest Unicode standard are the same people developing "critical" fixes.
I know it sometimes suggests emojis while you type but it's really not as convenient. It requires typing the whole and exact name of the emoji.
For example, let's say I want to add a "Face with tears of joy" . On Android I can type "tea", "cry", "lau" to find the emoji. On iOS the only way I was able to find it by typing "tears of joy" or "laughing". "cry", "crying", "tears", or any uncompleted word does not make the emoji appear.
The search bar on Android is much more flexible and user friendly, IMO. The ideal solution would be to have both the search and the suggestions.
If they really want to be all-inclusive they should just change all the faces back to original yellow; then no one should be offended (but they still will be, I know).
Other than that, I actually do enjoy some new food and animal emojis every now and then. Keep them coming.
For those who seem to think Apple halted all battery and charging projects to focus on getting this emoji update pushed out, they didn't. Totally different teams; emoji have no effect on battery life or charging issues or the Mac mini or the Mac Pro, etc. Calm down.
Other than that, I actually do enjoy some new food and animal emojis every now and then. Keep them coming.
For those who seem to think Apple halted all battery and charging projects to focus on getting this emoji update pushed out, they didn't. Totally different teams; emoji have no effect on battery life or charging issues or the Mac mini or the Mac Pro, etc. Calm down.
I'm most excited about the 1980s male porn star and Rachel Dolezal emoji.
I'm surprised they let in the lobster, though. Don't they know about Jordan Peterson?
I'm surprised they let in the lobster, though. Don't they know about Jordan Peterson?
Uh oh. Someone forgot to read the article before commenting on it.
"Apple says that it is working with the Unicode Consortium to add additional disability-themed emoji to Unicode 12, which is set to be released in 2019."
different teams.. whatever, apple should not have a single team working on emojis. And thats a fact! Give it to someone else.
I have a hard enough time fining the emoji I want to use as it is!
And now there's going to be over 70 more??
And now there's going to be over 70 more??
Spoiler alert: emojis that accept skin colour modifier were never yellow in the first place. They were all quite white.
That is likely is a very true statement, point taken.
That being said, it still seems strange to me that so soon a patch would be focusing on what are arguably non-critical fixes or updates to incorporate within.
Granted, the Romaine leaf emoji may hit some people in their wheelhouse or fill a missing niche, but to me it just seems like a prioritization question.
Just one opinion of course.
Thinking between the lines, the previous comment meaning (if one thinks at all) that Apple seems to have a fully staffed emoji department, but is still very lacking in quality control and bug fix departments. Maybe they should fire the emoji department and hire some more real software engineers and do real work.
My guess is that if one fails at writing good quality software, then at Apple you get demoted to the emoji department. Right now that department seems way overstaffed. Go figure.
Maybe you shouldn’t be so quick to jump to conclusions huh? It just makes you look silly.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/02/ios-12-1-charging-bug-fix/
I stand corrected.
Regardless, this is likely a footnote in terms of development resources, and undeserving of 4 pages (and counting) of rage.
Yes, so I noticed somewhere starting with iOS 10 or so (when they added the exploding head emoji), the design of all then-new emojis was slightly different from the prior ones. It was either the eyes, the distance between the mouth and eyes, or something else, but almost all of them looked creepy to me! The prior ones were all pleasant to the eye and felt fun or "just-right".
The reason is probably that either the decision makers or the designers changed, but something definitely changed. And not for the pleasant direction. The new ones, like the sad-eyes one in this article, just look near creepy and uncanny imo.
This might be just me, and 99% of the emoji userbase on iOS couldn't notice it or doesn't mind. But I find them weird and tend not to use them. Really first first world problems in light of other issues iOS or Apple has, but it's something to see the changes behind the curtains side by side like I can in the emoji list in Messages.
Yeah, I'm not sure the black guy with orange hair will get used much. I live in a pretty diverse place and I'm not sure I've ever seen anybody like that. Maybe I need to get out more.
The standard is quite open to interpretation. It's still a "gun", just one that shoots water instead of bullets.
Also, as was pointed out to me above, Apple is part of the consortium and as a full member has direct involvement in the ongoing development of the standard.
That said, it's still very much up to the individual companies who implement the standard as to how they choose to interpret it.
AND, they "implemented" the gun as a little water pistol toy. There is a lot of social agenda in Apple's decisions.