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Apple Seeds Second Beta of iOS 11.1 to Developers and Public Beta Testers With New Emoji

dan9700 said:
People honestly are more excited about dam Emojis sad times we live in
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Yeah, I liked it better when Apple spent more time focusing on more beneficial features. Let's hope next year's "big-ticket item" new feature is something better. Then again, maybe I'll enjoy it more than I think I will now?
 
ever since iOS 11 was released I've been having issues with Contact Names and my entire phone book. I deleted my device and reconnected. The phone book initially syncs, but after a few minutes the whole phone book disappears and all my numbers are left without contact names. Going into Phonebook, it is completely empty.. This is frustrating.. the car is a 2015 Acura TLX w/technology package. I've tried 11, 11.0.1 , 11.0.2 , 11.1 beta 1, 11.1 beta 2 and still having issues.

10.3.3 used to work flawlessly.
 
I'd prefer Macrumors to put the emoji-related news details into a separate news article and perhaps just mention (and link) it shortly in a general iOS update article. Would make it easier for both emoji lovers and haters to find the information one is interested in.
 
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kingpushup said:
Gender neutral emojis included? Blew my mind when I read: https://www.pcmag.com/news/356658/gender-neutral-emoji-headed-to-apple-devices and now seems nice and simple - looking forward to seeing in use, who knows
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I'd be happy if we could get back to the gender/color neutral bright yellow ones (which don't look like any actual human's skin color, and were never intended to), since we can't just go all the way back to ASCII emoticons like ": -)" (which I can't type without a space in the middle because this forum insists on replacing that with a smiley face image).
 
otternonsense said:
I still find hard to believe how much time, publicity and resources Apple throws into such a puny tangent such as emojis, ...
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I'll try to make this simple:

Apple supports the Unicode standard for encoding characters stored on iOS and macOS, because, frankly, using any other coding system would be insane (the entire world has moved to Unicode for good reasons).

The Unicode Consortium has a group that is responsible for approving the addition of new characters and character sets to the Unicode standard, and they keep accepting new emoji characters.

Apple, in order to comply with the Unicode standard, has a few graphic artists (not software developers) design new images to go with the newly assigned emoji (and other characters). (Note also that small images are highly unlikely to break other software on the system, so such changes are comparatively easy to push through, unlike many of the more complicated software bugs.)

Apple publishes software (like this beta) that includes the new symbols (amongst many other changes) in order to keep abreast of the standards, and they don't particularly publicize the new emoji, those usually get little more than a bullet point buried in the release notes.

News/rumors sites (which you are reading of your own volition) like MacRumors (not Apple), publicize the new Unicode characters added, and, predictably, such articles get a huge number of hits by people eager to complain about new emoji in iOS/macOS.

If you want to complain, complain directly to the Unicode Consortium about how they should stop adding new emoji to the Unicode character set, and/or complain directly to MacRumors (not on page 5 of the comments, but write directly to the site's owners, their email addresses are at the bottom of the site's front page) about how much coverage they give to new emoji added to Apple's OS's. Complaining about it on page 5 of the comments here only makes you feel good.
 
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Before I update, anyone able to confirm of this bug is fixed?


When I’m using multi window on my iPad Air. If I’m using a chat program in my overlaywindow, the keyboard covers up the bottom portion of the chat window blocking visibility of the chat program.
 
WolfSnap said:
Try typing 1+2+3= quickly. You’ll see the bug. :)
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Funny, seems if you time it just right, you can stop pressing ‘+’ and just keep adding separate units to the total. Like they intended an Addition Lock (similar to Caps lock). But if too quick its a mess. Thanks for sharing.
 
Much, much less UI lag across the board than in Beta 1. Haven't bothered to unplug it yet to take a look at battery life, but performance-wise I'm quite happy. Home button lag seems reduced but is not gone completely.
 
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CarlJ said:
I'll try to make this simple:

Apple supports the Unicode standard for encoding characters stored on iOS and macOS, because, frankly, using any other coding system would be insane (the entire world has moved to Unicode for good reasons).

The Unicode Consortium has a group that is responsible for approving the addition of new characters and character sets to the Unicode standard, and they keep accepting new emoji characters.

Apple, in order to comply with the Unicode standard, has a few graphic artists (not software developers) design new images to go with the newly assigned emoji (and other characters). (Note also that small images are highly unlikely to break other software on the system, so such changes are comparatively easy to push through, unlike many of the more complicated software bugs.)

Apple publishes software (like this beta) that includes the new symbols (amongst many other changes) in order to keep abreast of the standards, and they don't particularly publicize the new emoji, those usually get little more than a bullet point buried in the release notes.

News/rumors sites (which you are reading of your own volition) like MacRumors (not Apple), publicize the new Unicode characters added, and, predictably, such articles get a huge number of hits by people eager to complain about new emoji in iOS/macOS.

If you want to complain, complain directly to the Unicode Consortium about how they should stop adding new emoji to the Unicode character set, and/or complain directly to MacRumors (not on page 5 of the comments, but write directly to the site's owners, their email addresses are at the bottom of the site's front page) about how much coverage they give to new emoji added to Apple's OS's. Complaining about it on page 5 of the comments here only makes you feel good.
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I’d pin your response to the top of the thread if that was possible. It’s unbelievable that people still thinks that Apple is “wasting” resources in emojis. How do they think those appear in android phones? Magic?
 
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Clearly, we see Apple's priorities in action, and shows what's important to today's millennials and teens and where their intellect is at.

At some point, Apple will probably change the default keyboard to emoji, and to get - OMG - good ol' letters and numbers you'll have to drill down into some secondary keyboard.

LOL!
 
CarlJ said:
I'll try to make this simple:

Apple supports the Unicode standard for encoding characters stored on iOS and macOS, because, frankly, using any other coding system would be insane (the entire world has moved to Unicode for good reasons).

The Unicode Consortium has a group that is responsible for approving the addition of new characters and character sets to the Unicode standard, and they keep accepting new emoji characters.

Apple, in order to comply with the Unicode standard, has a few graphic artists (not software developers) design new images to go with the newly assigned emoji (and other characters). (Note also that small images are highly unlikely to break other software on the system, so such changes are comparatively easy to push through, unlike many of the more complicated software bugs.)

Apple publishes software (like this beta) that includes the new symbols (amongst many other changes) in order to keep abreast of the standards, and they don't particularly publicize the new emoji, those usually get little more than a bullet point buried in the release notes.

News/rumors sites (which you are reading of your own volition) like MacRumors (not Apple), publicize the new Unicode characters added, and, predictably, such articles get a huge number of hits by people eager to complain about new emoji in iOS/macOS.

If you want to complain, complain directly to the Unicode Consortium about how they should stop adding new emoji to the Unicode character set, and/or complain directly to MacRumors (not on page 5 of the comments, but write directly to the site's owners, their email addresses are at the bottom of the site's front page) about how much coverage they give to new emoji added to Apple's OS's. Complaining about it on page 5 of the comments here only makes you feel good.
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Thanks bud - I'm going to pin that to my notes and quote you every time this topic pops up :)
 
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How long does it take to not be a newbie anymore? I’m asking for a friend
[doublepost=1507589665][/doublepost]I must say, glad to see the macrumours staff and moderators are finally part of the topics...that rarely yield any results...but you know...fun read.
[doublepost=1507589759][/doublepost]After watching the emoji movie, I can safely say...emojis are clearly the only way for a guy to show a girl he likes her. Settled. Apple is answering a call...a pun emoji would have been perfect right about now
 
Found a random issue where the camera roll (unlocked device) shows photos from roughly seven months ago (February 25, 2017)
 
OMG! They (claim to have) fixed the map performance in the simulator!

People can actually start working again!
 
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