Apple Confirms New Emoji Are Coming to iPhone and iPad in iOS 11.1

[stevemiller]

I find emojis almost - but not quite - completely useless.

That said, they are a part of Unicode and as such should be included with every modern platform.

As to some of the complaints above: Not a single programmer spent any time making these. Artists are drawing them and adding them to the appropriate font and that's it.

Apple has more than enough money to pay both, programmers and artists. So nothing is lost by adding emojis for people who like them.

The size they occupy is also insignificant in times where a single photo is measured in tens of megabytes.

And if you hate emojis so much - just don't use any!

True, but then there is also the resources invested in implementing a facial motion capture system to animate emoji, and adding a second mini screen to laptops where one of the demo'd use cases was emoji selection.

Apple of course has the resources to spend on trendy things as well as a strong, usable foundation. But I'm positive I'm not alone in feeling that foundation is eroding while also getting more and more cluttered with these more superficial features.

I won't claim to armchair CEO exactly how Apple should approach satisfying both camps, I just wish I could also see some updates that that made my devices feel faster, more efficient and reliable. Or simply not feel worse performing and then be told "well that's the cost of all these flashy new features!"

 

[Dremmel]

How utterly enthralling. Does this fix battery life?

 

[rpat701]

This is really groundbreaking technological work. Amazing.

 

[SuprUsrStan]

omg I'm such a sucker for the yellow smiley face emoji's. As lame as this sounds, this has completely made my day.

I can't figure out what I like more, the shhhh or the mind blown. XD

 

[VulchR]

Seriously? A curling stone? That'll make the Scots happy...

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There is only one emoji I want and that is the Scottish flag, hopefully it is included in this update

See comment above...

EDIT: where's the curling broom?

 

[Naaaaak]

Working on the things that matter, I see.

 

[Ntombi]

Cher's vocabulary keeps going up with every unicode update!

She cracks me up on Twitter, but honestly, it takes me forever to decode sometimes.

omg I'm such a sucker for the yellow smiley face emoji's. As lame as this sounds, this has completely made my day.
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I can't figure out what I like more, the shhhh or the mind blown. XD

Funnily enough, I was looking for a shhhhh smiley the other day, as a friend posted spoilers for a show a bunch of us had just started watching. I had to settle for the mouth zipped closed version, which wasn’t quite right. I have never before “needed” a shhhh option, and now it’s here!

Seriously? A curling stone? That'll make the Scots happy...

And the Canadians.

And me, every four years. Next year, I’m sure it’ll get good use.

 

[Glideslope]

Oh goodie. More emojis. At least they work in iOS 11.

 

[fokmik]

So the official ios11.1 is coming on 23-24 October

 

[GIZBUG]

People still use these emojis? Never bothered to incorporate them in my messages. Apple need to fix the issues with iOS 11 that people still complain about and put these emojis on the back shelf. Priorities........

 

[hsoj1006]

But the fact that world's largest tech company "announces" emojis as news doesn't sound right. Every company has message and target audience and they cannot be announcing about everything. To be fair, Final Cut filters or even Garage Band instruments would be more inline with tech company which made their fortunes creating tools to professionals. Now Apple makes most of the money from overprices iPhones and accessories with minimal innovation risk. Appeal the masses and those people are mostly young facetime/whatsapp/snapchat people.

I didn't know age had anything to do with emojis. I am 39 and I use them daily with lots of people from peers to family to coworkers.

You sound like an old curmudgeon.

You are triggered by a press release? The reason you don't see press releases about bug fixes is mainly because nobody cares. Emojis are popular and are used by the masses. This is a press release that no one outside this website will really care about. But when I tell my daughter or my Mom about this, they will be ecstatic.

Just try to think outside your little box...

 

[hank moody]

I love emojis

 

[WannaGoMac]

No, the vocal minority is frustrated with Apple. We're less than 1% of Apple's demographic.

Sure it's not 1.234%?

 

[PG(Austin)]

OK...Now they are just f***ing with us....

 

[iccb]

Nowadays, it takes forever to write a message to someone, you must search suitable emoji from hundreds of different emojis!! Back in the days, it was way easier! ;-)

 

[RogerWilco]

Beginnings of a new language/culture?

 

[Jsameds]

Quite wrong...

I'm an in-touch, happy old fart.


(see? I can use an emoji, and by the way, these weren't invented by you kids. In USENET, we used the : ) : D~ and other things that you kids think you invented when your parents were in high school... mocking us for doing that.)

"you kids"

I'm 33

 

[fokmik]

Nowadays, it takes forever to write a message to someone, you must search suitable emoji from hundreds of different emojis!! Back in the days, it was way easier! ;-)

You have search for emoji

 

[RuffyYoshi]

Their priority should be fixing the OS and make it as snappy as possible FIRST.

 

[Pezboy]

Awesome, because all I really really wanted was not fracking emojis. You nailed it Apple.

 

[Hater]

Beginnings of a new language/culture?

fleek back to the dab my fam

 

[DeathBecomesMe]

This is so cool!!!! But I wish my 7 Plus' battery wouldn't go down 20% if I look at it wrong.

 

[lunarworks]

Seriously? A curling stone? That'll make the Scots happy...

Curling is secretly huge in Canada. Tournaments get broadcast on our major TV networks.

 

[nwcs]

Back to hieroglyphics it seems. Lol. There are so many emoji now that it’s become a total wasteland to find what you want. So I just go back to what I did in the early 90s: ANSI-based emoticons. Simple, effective, doesn’t require endless searching, and doesn’t require software updates. Oh, and they were always politically correct...

A worthwhile read:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/

 

[Lone Deranger]

Who wants Apple to concentrate on production of iPhone X rather than on silly emojis - please raise your hand!

Quite frankly, I'd rather they'd concentrate on the absurdly long overdue Mac Pro successor.