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Apple May Add Reversible Emoji in iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 Next Year
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Of course Apple is a small company can either do emoji or core software work.
I just hope they do a reversed broccoli . THATS the one I look forward to.
While you're correct that Apple isn't responsible for creating new emojis, one could argue that Apple is under no obligation to implement new emoji.
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.
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.
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Meh emoji's are for kids, the only few I use are the smily face, the wink, and the lol one with tears. Thats about it. And I only use them to give some meaning too the message.
Further evidence that consortiums are useless. Also further evidence that Apple is focused on the masses and ignoring power users. C'mon, where's my new 17" MBP?
Ooh yeah and reversible so the door can open on either side! Sweet.
Ok I’ll bite. What the heck does one have to do with the other? And when has Apple ever indicated it was ever bringing back a 17” laptop?
The people that work on emoji aren’t responsible for new Mac hardware or software bug fixes. Working on A doesn’t mean no one is working on B, C and D.
Yeah why have standards at all, and why grow a huge company when you can be a niche boutique with a ridiculously small client base?
This pretty much sums up how large business does, and should, work.
Well there are tons of little ui stuff that would be better addressed than Emoji.....
100% want that type of functionality. I’m just not sure the emoji guys are on that same dev team.
This Emoji thing is literally getting out of control... I can't believe is literally taking over more important matters for OS X and Apple devices in general...
