Apple May Add Reversible Emoji in iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 Next Year

[MacRumors]

The Unicode Consortium has proposed new guidelines that would allow for reversible emoji. In other words, emojis such as a car or train that currently face to the left or right only would be able to face either direction.

Reversible emoji mockup via Emojipedia​

Apple and other vendors would be able to choose which emoji can be reversible on their devices, if any, according to their preferences.

The guidelines are still a draft that should be finalized by time the next major batch of over 100 new emoji characters are made available for companies like Apple to implement starting in the second half of 2018.

The Unicode Consortium has also introduced a handful of new emoji candidates for the second half of 2018, including a swan, badger, infinity, and pirate flag, according to Jeremy Burge at Emojipedia.org.

Unfortunately, for true emoji aficionados, it looks like "Frowning Pile Of Poo" and two other faces haven't made the cut for the next batch.

Emoji 11.0, proposed earlier this year, currently includes 130 new emoji candidates. Some notable inclusions are faces with red hair, faces with no hair, faces with curly or afro hairstyles, and hot and cold faces.

Other candidates include new superheroes, a firecracker, a fire extinguisher, a test tube, a lacrosse stick with ball, a softball, and a bagel.

The timeline means that iPhones and iPads could support both the new and reversible emoji in iOS 12 or iOS 12.1 around September to November of next year. The new batch should extend to the Mac as well in a future macOS update.

The emoji included in this article are sample images by Emojipedia.org and could vary slightly from Apple's final designs.

Article Link: Apple May Add Reversible Emoji in iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 Next Year

 

[fokmik]

The Unicode Consortium has proposed new guidelines that would allow for reversible emoji. In other words, emojis such as a car or train that currently face to the left or right only would be able to face either direction.

Reversible emoji mockup via Emojipedia​

Apple and other vendors would be able to choose which emoji can be reversible on their devices, if any, according to their preferences.

The guidelines are still a draft that should be finalized by time the next major batch of over 100 new emoji characters are made available for companies like Apple to implement starting in the second half of 2018.

The Unicode Consortium has also introduced a handful of new emoji candidates for the second half of 2018, including a swan, badger, infinity, and pirate flag, according to Jeremy Burge at Emojipedia.org.

Unfortunately, for true emoji aficionados, it looks like "Frowning Pile Of Poo" and two other faces haven't made the cut for the next batch.

Emoji 11.0, proposed earlier this year, currently includes 130 new emoji candidates. Some notable inclusions are faces with red hair, faces with no hair, faces with curly or afro hairstyles, and hot and cold faces.

Other candidates include new superheroes, a firecracker, a fire extinguisher, a test tube, a lacrosse stick with ball, a softball, and a bagel.

The timeline means that iPhones and iPads could support both the new and reversible emoji in iOS 12 or iOS 12.1 around September to November of next year. The new batch should extend to the Mac as well in a future macOS update.

The emoji included in this article are sample images by Emojipedia.org and could vary slightly from Apple's final designs.

Article Link: Apple Devices Could Have Reversible Emoji Next Year

Cant wait

 

[Blakey.]

Cue rant about Emoji when the developers responsible for all the current bugs have nothing to do with the designing of them.

 

[mr.bee]

the emoji interface will become a mess if they keep adding emoji's.
they can be fun and add some flavour but tiresome to look for the right one.
and emoji suggestions from Apple are kinda meh...

 

[JM]

Maybe Apple will create a decent organizing and search method into messages. the orange letters are nice, and the tiny glyphs.... but it's still annoying to try and find that one specific emoji that you know exists, so you're left to swiping endlessly in the hopes you can find it.

How about a search bar like they have for #images?

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Please let the middle finger be reversible. Right now I just send two in a row, but they're both the same sided hand so it doesn't look proper (although it could be argued that the gesture itself isn't proper, but that's in another sense of the word.)

 

[HallStevenson]

I realize that the bulk of 'emoji' work is done by a graphic designer vs a programmer but couldn't these resources be better utilized ? Emojis ? Ooooh, ooooh, "reversible" one !

 

[Hodar1]

Who needs prioritized Bluetooth, when you can get dozens of more unusable emoji's?
I mean, the idea of automatically setting a hierarchy of where Bluetooth goes to for phone calls (1- Phone; 2 - Airpods; 3 - Car Bluetooth) being different from where Bluetooth music is played. I doubt I'm the only one who wants a phone call routed to my Airpods while I'm driving, yet would listen to music in my Car audio system.
No, let's not do that .... more stupid emoji's. How bout some more cat emoji's? Maybe some killer clown emoji's? Certainly they are as useful as 99.5% of the crap emoji's that pollute the keyboard now.

 

[iModFrenzy]

Most of these emojis I don't ever find myself using, maybe 5 at most.

 

[barkomatic]

I'm surprised that emojis are so important to people that announcements about minor changes get coverage.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

The first thing an Apple CEO is obligated to do: fire the entire emoji department and hire a new department for developing high end hardware and a better MacOS. Please, quit with the emojis already...

 

[rizzo41999]

I spend 5 seconds looking for the right emoji. If I don't find one, I won't use one and resort to language to describe what I'm feeling.

 

[enkadrummer88]

The first thing an Apple CEO is obligated to do: fire the entire emoji department and hire a new department for developing high end hardware and a better MacOS. Please, quit with the emojis already...

Apple isn't in charge of chosing new emojis. That's up to the Unicode Consortium (as stated in the first sentence of the article). Apple is only in charge of making sure their devices can display them properly once they are standard.

 

[Recognition]

Cue rant about Emoji when the developers responsible for all the current bugs have nothing to do with the designing of them.

Who needs prioritized Bluetooth, when you can get dozens of more unusable emoji's?
I mean, the idea of automatically setting a hierarchy of where Bluetooth goes to for phone calls (1- Phone; 2 - Airpods; 3 - Car Bluetooth) being different from where Bluetooth music is played. I doubt I'm the only one who wants a phone call routed to my Airpods while I'm driving, yet would listen to music in my Car audio system.
No, let's not do that .... more stupid emoji's. How bout some more cat emoji's? Maybe some killer clown emoji's? Certainly they are as useful as 99.5% of the crap emoji's that pollute the keyboard now.

...and there it is! Lol!

 

[dude-x]

I expected to see a reversed squirt gun emoji in this post.

 

[Secondempire]

With this onslaught of emoji they better come up with smarter ways to find them. Maybe utilize AI to suggest emoji, based on time of day, previous messages, etc. Maybe one day we don't have to communicate at all, software can auto send emoji and we get auto sent emoji back and so on.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

I bet Tim Cook got excited when he heard about this and it probably dominated that week’s staff meeting.

Apple, we don’t care about emojis. Where is the Mac Pro, iMac Pro, and Mac Mini?!

 

[Kaibelf]

I realize that the bulk of 'emoji' work is done by a graphic designer vs a programmer but couldn't these resources be better utilized ? Emojis ? Ooooh, ooooh, "reversible" one !

Utilized for what exactly? And why?

 

[cthart]

I can't believe the biggest news in computers in 2017 is glorified simileys that look like icons.

 

[Zaft]

I dont care what the Macrumors community says. I love emojis, especially with my wife.

 

[Kaibelf]

The first thing an Apple CEO is obligated to do: fire the entire emoji department and hire a new department for developing high end hardware and a better MacOS. Please, quit with the emojis already...

Because one has ANYTHING to do with the other. Also, until you are a majority shareholder, you really have no "obligations" to assign to anyone.

 

[JRobinsonJr]

Who needs prioritized Bluetooth, when you can get dozens of more unusable emoji's?
I mean, the idea of automatically setting a hierarchy of where Bluetooth goes to for phone calls (1- Phone; 2 - Airpods; 3 - Car Bluetooth) being different from where Bluetooth music is played. I doubt I'm the only one who wants a phone call routed to my Airpods while I'm driving, yet would listen to music in my Car audio system.
No, let's not do that .... more stupid emoji's. How bout some more cat emoji's? Maybe some killer clown emoji's? Certainly they are as useful as 99.5% of the crap emoji's that pollute the keyboard now.

I can certainly appreciate the sentiment but it's true that these are (mostly) coming from outside Apple and thus don't take up a lot of dev room. At the same time, the UI for emoji is already bloated so Apple will be forced to invest time, money and resources to build a usable UI. Grrr...

 

[Xgm541]

Having something added does not mean that had it not been added, another thing that you wanted added would be added instead.

 

[shly0718]

If Alien exists, they’d extinct human beings now

 

[Kaibelf]

I can't believe the biggest news in computers in 2017 is glorified simileys that look like icons.

I can't believe that a random morning post on Macrumors qualifies as "the biggest news in computers in 2017" to anyone when 99.9% of the news on this and other sites has absolutely nothing to do with emojis at all.