72 New Emoji Including Bacon, Shrug, Selfie and Face Palm Coming in Unicode 9

[theluggage]

This, it's getting ridiculous looking for these things. Or at least when you type out the emoji action show it as an option on the predict keyboard.

(NB: OS X lets you search for Emoji using Character Viewer, but I suppose kids today use iOS)

If you have the ability to type words, why do you need emoji?
I can understand it in Japanese culture, where finding an emoji is probably simpler than finding the right kanji character, but in cultures that don't have a tradition of pictographic alphabets? FACEPALM SHRUG NUTS

I can still count on one hand the number of times I've used any emojis in my entire life.

Good policy: on my phone I get something like 5000 texts a month included in my plan, but if I insert an emoji it gets converted to a multimedia message and I pay extra. (U+1F4B0 MONEY BAG)

Meanwhile, nobody ever worried about the ethnicity or gender of good old

:-)

Edit: Gaaah!!! MR converts emoticons into Emoji if you don't wrap them in code tags! (U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO)

Can we have a "Get off my lawn!" emoji please?

 

[alexgowers]

Emoji are useless unless they appear when you go to spell a word. I hope they implement that. I can't be bothered to flick through so many screens now just to find one that has moved since I last used it or spotted it. Also emoji are too small and very poorly drawn, I usually draw for pictures myself

 

[Mactendo]

No Tim Cook emoji? Meh.

 

[B4U]

This works in Japanese, so the functionality is already there. It just needs to be enabled for English and other languages, and I'm surprised that it hasn't been done yet.

And it works so nicely in Japanese.
Here are some example:
(かわいい)
(怒る)
(眠い)

For English though, they might need a different search logic

Edited

Okay, so the emoji does not show up in the replied message...although they showed up when I typed them.

 

[Arran]

I suggest we have a Talk Using Only Emoji Day

Why not make it a series of days:

• Talk using Egyptian hieroglyphics day,
• Talk using cave paintings day,
• Talk using grunts day,
• Talk using clubs, spears and stones day!

For that final day, moderation could be by club. Should be interesting, yeah!

 

[macguru212]

We still need a few more added:

1) Beating a dead horse emoji
2) over-your-head emoji
3) pie in the face emoji

peace guys

 

[diipii]

I

I bet you're fun at parties.

I bet the guys in the comic book store think you are a hero.

 

[vmachiel]

Put these with a really important security update down the road, so that everybody will install it

 

[phr0z3n]

Wow.. Incredible stuff from Apple

This next update will be revolutionary. Say you wake up in the morning and want to ask your significant other if they want some bacon with their breakfast. In this latest update you can do just that without ever needing to type out the word bacon. Who wants to do that? You've gotta lift your finger a few times and type a bunch of letters. Well as it turns out we've finally found a way to truly revolutionize the market.

You just find the bacon emoji, tap it and boom you're done. This is coming to all of their internet communication devices.

 

[Jason83]

Still no broom

 

[phillipduran]

Whats with the no hips skinny guy in a Speedo emoji? Is that a thing?

 

[Tycho24]

I'm a blast at parties. That's what alcohol is for.

Right...
So you understand the fact that alcohol makes you more fun & energetic at parties, when you're in person with people- more emotive one could say.
How is it a hard leap to the fact that emojis are the "alcohol" of texting... they are the way people can be exuberant & emotive via text- the very things that make someone "a blast at parties".
Perhaps you could become "a blast in regular life" even without alcohol, once you master the proper use of the emoji, lol! ;0)

 

[dwsolberg]

I'll definitely take that as a compliment, thank you kindly! I just honestly have never cared to use them to convey what I want to say in text, that's what words are for. If kids these days want to talk in rebus, more power to them.

In a lot of interpersonal communication, much of the meaning is nonverbal. Emojis are a way to partially bridge that gap when texting.

 

[phillipduran]

Congrats on being old!

Ascii master race.

 

[yaxomoxay]

I can still count on one hand the number of times I've used any emojis in my entire life.

how many fingers on your hand?

 

[PlainviewX]

And Apple will be behind the curve in implementing them a year later.

 

[garoto]

How else do you cut an avocado? Looks like the right way to me, just missing the other half.

Really? An avocado is cut north to south, not east to west.

 

[Arran]

In a lot of interpersonal communication, much of the meaning is nonverbal. Emojis are a way to partially bridge that gap when texting.

Which is fine when they're a small, widely-understood set and are used principally to convey the tone in which something is said (smile, grin, wink, stick-out-tongue). They do add clarity, then.

OTOH, this proliferation of ambiguous, "clip-art" style emojis will simply lead to misunderstanding. We've already witnessed this in this very thread as two individuals disagreed on whether the avocado was really a kiwi.

(Actually there's an avocado AND a kiwi, but you have to carefully study the entire set of emojis to realize that)

 

[Ed A.]

As an Apple investor, I'm proud to see my money being put to such good use.

 

[Rafagon]

Where is the Emoji for "bricked iPad"?

 

[Arran]

Where is the Emoji for "bricked iPad"?

Apple vetoed it!

We're not allowed to speak of such things!

 

[adamjackson]

I can still count on one hand the number of times I've used any emojis in my entire life.

I've used Emoticons for years : ) but not sure why anyone wants to browse through thousands of these on a tiny phone screen when they could have already typed out their message.

<scrolls through thousands of emojis for 10 minutes to find a picture of a piece of cake>

OR

"Here's some cake" - Send.

 

[Col4bin]

What so guys don't use emojis? Give me a break!

Yeah, I guess if you're under 16. "Grown up Peter Pan, Count Chocula..."

In kidding, I (wearily) jest!

 

[Col4bin]

I'm a dude... If you don't use emojis because you are a "dude" you are missing out.

I don't know. It's out of my comfort zone I guess.

 

[nt5672]

Congrats on being old!

Once we get enough emojis we can quit teaching words and spelling in school, that is just so 'old school'. And better yet, emojis are the making of the universal language. Just think we will all be able to communicate no matter what country you were born in or language you speak. We truly are becoming one world, one people (just dumber than rock).