Apple Previews New Emoji Coming in 2020 Like Ninja, Piñata, Bubble Tea, Dodo, Polar Bear, Black Cat, Tamale and More

[MacRumors]

Tomorrow marks World Emoji Day, and in celebration of the event, Apple has shared a preview of upcoming 2020 emojis that will be added to iPhones, iPads, and Macs with Emojipedia.

Emojis coming in 2020 are part of the Emoji 13 update, which includes the following emoji options:

• Faces - Smiling Face with Tear, Disguised Face
• People - Ninja, Person in Tuxedo, Woman in Tuxedo, Person with Veil, Man with Veil, Woman Feeding Baby, Person Feeding Baby, Man Feeding Baby, Mx. Claus, People Hugging
• Body Parts - Pinched fingers, Anatomical Heart, Lungs
• Animals - Black Cat, Bison, Mammoth, Beaver, Polar Bear, Dodo, Seal, Beetle, Cockroach, Fly, Worm
• Food - Blueberries, Olive, Bell Pepper, Flatbread, Fondue, Bubble Tea
• Household - Potted Plant, Teapot, Piñata, Magic Wand, Nesting Dolls, Sewing Needle, Mirror, Window, Plunger, Mouse Trap, Bucket, Toothbrush
• Miscellaneous - Feather, Rock, Wood, Hut, Pickup Truck, Roller Skate, Knot, Coin, Boomerang, Screwdriver, Carpentry Saw, Hook, Ladder, Elevator, Headstone, Placard, Transgender Symbol, Transgender Flag
• Clothing - Thong Sandal, Military Helmet
• Musical Instruments - Accordion, Long Drum

The update also features 55 gender and skin-tone variants, along with new gender-inclusive emojis that can be used as an alternative to gendered versions, such as person with veil and person with tuxedo rather than the current woman/man options.

Apple shared design previews of several of the new emoji with Emojipedia, which can be seen in the image above and in more detail on the Emojipedia website.

Apple will adopt the new Unicode 13 emoji characters at some point in 2020, likely in a fall update to iOS 14. Apple last year introduced Unicode 12 emojis in the iOS 13.2 update that was released in October.

After the Emoji 13 update, there will, unfortunately, be a delay with Emoji 14 that will prevent new emojis from being introduced in 2021. Emoji 14 will be released six months late, which means it likely won't be able to be added to smartphones until 2022.

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[I7guy]

Wow, can't have too many emojis. I do use emojis, a picture is sometimes worth a thousand words.

Really disappointed in the delay in emoji update 14. /s

 

[Infinite Vortex]

Where's the coronavirus looking emoji?? Surely something that permanently changed the world deserves its own emoji.

 

[jclo]

Where's the coronavirus looking emoji?? Surely something that permanently changed the world deserves its own emoji.

These emoji 13 emojis were decided on awhile ago, there's like a two year delay between suggestion and implementation.

 

[jasonefmonk]

Well I am ninja, he is ninja
She is ninja, too
I am ninja, we are ninja
And I believe that you are ninja too!

 

[WannaGoMac]

I just came for the snide emoji comments.

 

[Le Big Mac]

Shouldn't the Crazy Ones coin have a minting date of 1997?

 

[4jasontv]

"People Hugging" seems very insensitive.

 

[camperboy]

This is what the whole world has been waiting for. Thank you Apple ?

 

[superiska123]

If only the emoji team focused on the new ARM macs instead, what a waste of resources on Apple's part! /s

 

[Westside guy]

Oh, thank the Lord.

 

[PickUrPoison]

This is what the whole world has been waiting for. Thank you Apple ?

Apple doesn’t choose which new emoji are to be included, they merely implement the Unicode standard.

 

[Westside guy]

Where's the coronavirus looking emoji?? Surely something that permanently changed the world deserves its own emoji.

Give it time...
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"People Hugging" seems very insensitive.

The lungs are timely, though.

 

[bg1419]

Serious question: does anyone know if there’s a male symbol or a female symbol? Idk if they don’t exist or what the case is, but if they’re making a transgender one I’d assume the others are there somewhere, it’d be crazy to make an emoji for .1% of people before ones for the other 99%. I’ve looked for them though on several occasions where I wanted to use one of them, but I swear they aren’t there.

 

[velocityg4]

I can spend a few seconds writing a sentence or a half hour searching through an ungodly number of emoji's to do the same. Obviously I'm going to use emoji's. /s

 

[twocents]

At least we’ll soon have a search bar to sift through this ??... until the day comes we can hide the 90+% of emoji that go unused

 

[chrono1081]

Nothing gets people riled up like new emojis. Even better is when those people don’t realize that Apple doesn’t make the emojis, the Unicode consortium does. Apple simply adopts the Unicode standard because not doing so can lead to issues.

 

[Analog Kid]

Nesting dolls FTW!

 

[Apple_Robert]

I am glad someone can find emojis appealing. I have no use for them.

 

[Analog Kid]

Serious question: does anyone know if there’s a male symbol or a female symbol? Idk if they don’t exist or what the case is, but if they’re making a transgender one I’d assume the others are there somewhere, it’d be crazy to make an emoji for .1% of people before ones for the other 99%. I’ve looked for them though on several occasions where I wanted to use one of them, but I swear they aren’t there.

You’ve left .9% unaccounted for...

Where's the coronavirus looking emoji?? Surely something that permanently changed the world deserves its own emoji.

That picture we always see looks like it was made for emoji creation...

This is a perfect example though of the fact that emoji are a standards process. It would make sense to slip a coronavirus into the mix if Apple made the emoji, but they don’t, and standards bodies move glacially slowly. It’ll be ready for SARS-CoV-3, if we’re lucky.

 

[CarlJ]

Serious question: does anyone know if there’s a male symbol or a female symbol? Idk if they don’t exist or what the case is, but if they’re making a transgender one I’d assume the others are there somewhere, it’d be crazy to make an emoji for .1% of people before ones for the other 99%. I’ve looked for them though on several occasions where I wanted to use one of them, but I swear they aren’t there.

You mean these? ♀ ♂ Been in Unicode since v1.1 in 1993.

Unicode Character 'FEMALE SIGN' (U+2640)

Unicode Character 'MALE SIGN' (U+2642)

 

[Rocko99991]

Beaver will see a heavy rotation.

 

[Porco]

I’m going to guess:
iOS 14.3: boomerang emoji
iOS 14.3.1: boomerang emoji not available
iOS 14.3.2: boomerang emoji returns

 

[Capeto]

Where's the coronavirus looking emoji?? Surely something that permanently changed the world deserves its own emoji.

??

 

[jayducharme]

Emojis were developed to quickly convey a simple concept without typing, sort of like traffic signs. But I can't think of a single instance where I'd need to use a lung emoji. Some of these seem to be a bit of a reach, with no real purpose.