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70+ New Emoji Characters to Be Included in Upcoming iOS 12.1 Update
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We really need a better UI for organizing and finding emojis. I can never easily find the one I want, when I know for a fact it exists.
Emoji are part of the unicode standard, Apple isn't "inventing" new ones, they are simply complying.
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Anyone can submit proposals for new emoji! http://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html
It amazes me that despite how many times people post the above fact, the trolls or uninformed post their 'why is Apple working on emojis when they should be fixing bugs?'. I highly recommend this episode of one of my favorite podcasts, 99% Invisible, which explains emojis and how they are created in wonderful detail.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/person-lotus-position/
How about lets fix the LTE/WiFi issues first. Car Play seems to be impacted with iOS12. My X on iOS 11 was fine and worked like a charm. Upgraded and now the Xs Max on 12 wont stay connected to Wifi or to Car Play via bluetooth for more than a minute at a time
I have a counter-thought: It takes way less resources and time to add emoji than it does to track down the reason for a big, test to make sure the fix works, test to make sure the fix doesn't break something else major, and then ship out.
I wouldn't trust emoji artists to fix CarPlay issues.
I agree. Let's send the emoji team home until the LTE/WiFi team on the other side of the building is done fixing the connection issues.
You're right, I'm sure Apple told all its developers to stop working on fixing problems found by putting the brand new OS into wide use, and start trying to draw emojis. Because "software developer" and "graphic artist" are completely interchangeable skills.
So what I'm getting is that if I'm having trouble with the mail server, the graphic designers where I work get to go home? They'll be so happy to hear that!
The Unicode Consortium's working group on Emoji - the people responsible for approving the addition of new Emoji, does not read the forums of Mac/Apple rumor sites. You're complaint is going unheard.
Which has nothing to do with the colour of the skin of the emoji (which is part of basic specification) or anything with the addition of new emoji in general.
That's one (in numbers: 1) emoji out of currently 1644 (not counting colour variants) where Apple decided to change the design on their own behalf. Wow. Apple's really massively pushing an agenda here. (And, by the way, pretty much all other implementors followed suit.)
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If you’d waited 44 minutes to snark, you’d see that no one’s ignoring anything. New iOS update addresses charging issues, if that’s what you mean by “charge gate“.
Charging issues, beauty selfie cam, LTE speed issues ...
None of that matters. Emojis do.
Charging issues appare to have already been fixed, Beauty selfi cam isn’t a problem, LTE speeds could be 20000 other factors not to mention these would have been planned months before any of those ‘non’ problems arose.
Yup. The original set of iPhone emoji:
But don't let facts get in the way.
And they can be switched to lemon yellow too now if one wishes.
I am appalled that it took this long to add a Kangaroo emoji.