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

[cmaier]

there are lots of bugs and battery drain problems but apple cares about emoji...
this must be a bad joke...

It’s true. All the programmers who work on UIKit and the core OS have been reassigned to draw emoji. Because their skill sets and job responsibilities overlap like that.
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In an emergency, people could always use WORDS to express themselves. This emoji madness is like something out of 'Idiocracy'

Get off my lawn!
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I think you're dramatically overestimating the amount of space it takes to store each emoji... it's a few KB per emoji. Multiple it by a few hundred and you're talking about maybe a few MB. It takes 1024 MB to equal a single GB. So all the emojis take up less than 1% of 1% of the space on even the iPhones with the smallest hard drives.

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Apple can't just keep shoving in more emojis without coming up with a serious way of organizing them. This is just getting ridiculous. I'm pretty sure I use fewer emojis than I would otherwise because of how overwhelming the number of emojis has become - it's become too much of a chore to sift through them for it to be worth using at all.

I find that the auto-suggest is the way to go. Just type using words and tap the emoji you want. And on the beta it will now suggest multiple possibilities when applicable.

 

[obitow]

I find it funny how controversial emojis are

EDIT: I mean, c'mon. This has more comments than the news about a confirmed, extremely serious security bug.

And please, for f*** sake, don't go to Swift blog.

 

[fhall1]

I was always curious as to why there are two paperclip emojis

I guess for the same reason we needed multiple Police Academy movies - one was just not enough! LOL

 

[Rogifan]

Oh Jesus...... yeah don’t worry about all those bugs, give us more crapojis because that’s what we all want.....

I hate it when people are willfully obtuse. Or maybe they think they’re being clever with comments like this. But it’s just dumb. Apple employs thousands of software engineers and features for releases are planned well in advance. Apple isn’t not fixing bugs so they can give us new emojis. Of course you and everyone else making these silly comments know that.

 

[maverick2007]

Iphone 8 is all about emoji Innovation. Go apple! full steam ahead!

 

[drewyboy]

I don't know what it is, but I just never have the desire to express my text through emoji's. I rarely use them, even though I do see how we are transitioning expressing ourselves differently to various forms of communication.

We're devolving back to using modern day hieroglyphs. Sad if you ask me.

 

[RiddlaBronc]

Apple=Catering to teenage girls

 

[akadafni]

Apple today announced that hundreds of new emoji characters will be added to the iPhone and iPad in the upcoming iOS 11.1 update.

The company also showed off some of the new emoji that will be introduced, all of which are part of Unicode 10. Some of the new additions include crazy face, pie, pretzel, t-rex, vampire, exploding head, face vomiting, shushing face, love you gesture, brain, scarf, zebra, giraffe, fortune cookie, pie, hedgehog, and more.

New child, adult, and older adult emojis in a range of skin tones are included, as are characters for person in steamy room, bearded person, mage, fairy, vampire, merperson, elf, genie, person climbing, person in lotus position, and more, with all of those emoji available in multiple skin tones and genders. While there are 56 distinct new emoji characters, gender/skin tone modifiers and flags bring that total to over 200.

Unicode 10 was first released in June of 2017, but it often takes several months for Apple to implement new emoji characters after a Unicode update as all of the new characters need to be drawn by Apple artists in the Apple emoji style. All of the Unicode 10 emoji are listed on emoji site Emojipedia.

Apple previously previewed some of the new Unicode 10 emoji back in July.

The first beta of iOS 11.1 was released to developers last week. It did not include the promised Unicode 10 emojis, but Apple says they'll be added in developer and public betas of iOS 11.1 next week.

We've also seen evidence suggesting iOS 11.1 could include the Apple Pay Cash feature as employees are testing it internally, so the update is shaping up to be a significant addition to the iOS 11 operating system.

There's no word yet on when iOS 11.1 will see a public release.

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

Where is the Prince emoji?

 

[Exxhara]

Honestly, if you don't like emojis and don't want to use them then don't. I for one, love them and i'm excited to get iphone X so that i can use Animoji as well. It's just a different way to express yourself other than just words and it's pretty fun to exchange with friends and family. My lil sister absolutely loves them as well as a majority of my friends as well. Plus, with the new characters, its just exciting to play around and try the ones as well.

 

[chrono1081]

Wow. More emojis. Good work Apple!

Apple doesn't make emoijs, they're part of the unicode standard. Apple simply adopts the standard since thats what all modern OSs should do (that way you don't get little missing squares where images should be).
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Honestly, if you don't like emojis and don't want to use them then don't. I for one, love them and i'm excited to get iphone X so that i can use Animoji as well. It's just a different way to express yourself other than just words and it's pretty fun to exchange with friends and family. My lil sister absolutely loves them as well as a majority of my friends as well. Plus, with the new characters, its just exciting to play around and try the ones as well.

This. I'm a guy in my mid-30s as are my friends and although I'm not as bad as they are, they all text like they're a bunch of teenage girls. Lots of emojis, bitmojis, etc. I have fun with it too, just not to the extent they do.

I'm also excited for the animoji. I liekly won't use it much but the technology behind it is impressive, thats a lot of real time facial tracking.

I do wish you could filter emoji though. I have never needed 95% of them and it would be nice to get rid of location specific emoji, or categories like the symbols.

 

[RumorConsumer]

Guys just a heads up but Steve was all about this stuff. Steve wanted the machine to be human and relatable. He liked the funny features like a smiling computer picture during boot or a sound called Wild Eep. A computer that played a sweet chord and when it wasn’t working it looks ill (startup POST signals from 68k Mac). iMac with candy colors. He lovvvvved it. He wanted 16 year old girls to love this stuff. So lighten up. They could be doing a better job on OS tightness and bugs and what not and for the parts of the Apple aesthetic that are still alive lets be grateful not complain. What do you think?

 

[jdillings]

Given all the security bugs of late, maybe they should doubledown on security and not emoji

 

[CrashX]

 

[obitow]

As a user, I really don't care that much about emoji. They are just fancy emoticons, so no big deal. I have a set of about 15 I use regularly, but I can live without them.

As a developer, though, I really appreciate the inclusion of new emoji because:

I though emojis were slightly pointless until one day when I was teaching (16-17yr olds) and all the student were scrambling to get cables and chargers for their iphones. "What's up" I asked. "We gotta update. New iOS version!" they replied. I was taken aback, why would 16 year olds care about the lastest iOS version (7.2 or somesuch) so badly that they just couldn't wait to update their phones?

New emojis were included in that update.

People who otherwise would be running the equivalent of IE6 on their phones now update more often, which makes it much, much faster to drop old APIs. That's aside from the benefit of security patches. It's like giving a medicine to a pet: wrap it in a delicious ham and they'll eat them all.

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.

You missed the point. Both features were not developed for emoji. Actually they are proof that Apple can work on usability/inovation and emoji at the same time. (The usability/inovation part is questionable, but that's another topic)

 

[NMBob]

How much space do these really take up? There isn't 512x512 bitmap versions of them like icons, are there? At some point I suspect it will be seen for being really silly. Just read through the news. Where are the severed heads? Snipers? Mutilated and burned bodies of rival drug gangs? I'm not sure what the Unicode's goal is, if they even have one, I mean, broccoli?, but there are whole chunks of life that are not being represented, and we'll either have to go to 3 bytes per character, or just leave things incomplete.

Has the spelling checker become completely stupid? It knows that mutillated is wrong, but 'no guesses found'!? I've been noticing that a lot lately. Oh, it knows how to spell brocolli correctly. Weird.

 

[Yvan256]

Oh great, more stuff that will appear as a blank square in Messages on older devices. The new iOS versions should know they're sending incompatible characters to older devices and send them as images instead.

 

[RumorConsumer]

I though emojis were slightly pointless until one day when I was teaching (16-17yr olds) and all the student were scrambling to get cables and chargers for their iphones. "What's up" I asked. "We gotta update. New iOS version!" they replied. I was taken aback, why would 16 year olds care about the lastest iOS version (7.2 or somesuch) so badly that they just couldn't wait to update their phones?

New emojis were included in that update.

Exactly!!! A spoon full of sugar. People do their updates when there’s fun!!

 

[zachcsnyder]

Looking forward to using these for the 3 hours at a time that my iPhone has a charge

 

[KrispE00]

Finally! I’ve been waiting for that curling emoji forever!

 

[Razeus]

I hope 11.1 fixes the massive battery drain on my 6S Plus. I used to last all day after taking it off the charge 5AM. Now I need to juice it up by lunch.

 

[jeyf]

INOVATION::

another 13% thinner
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lots more emoji

 

[hiort]

Yay! More Emojis! Apple please keep up the emojis and ignore all the stutter and lag we got in iOS...

 

[oldwatery]

I cannot believe this crap. They have teams of people making emojis and working on tv shows but by their own admission not enough resources to work on computers and periferals like monitors and routers. Cook and co have destroyed this company all for the sake of a few dollars. And the worst part is that most consumers are happy with this situation. So bloody sad.

 

[Taipan]

I hope the pie comes in different colors, so none will feel left behind.

 

[smaffei]

How about some desperately needed bug fixes coming to iOS 11.1? Most people I know who have used iOS 11 are encountering some serious issues. Worst iOS release in ages…