Apple Shares Ad Highlighting Genmoji in iOS 18.2

[polyphenol]

I'm glad someone has a sense of humour:

skeleton made out of Chrome

 

[Mendoza_559]

I had this problem too. I went to Settings --> General --> Keyboards and toggled on "Stickers" all the way at the bottom of the list under Emoji. Went back to the Messages app and the Genmoji worked.

Wow this was toggled off and no wonder it didn’t work. Thank you!!!

 

[attila]

This is at least useful and functional unlike Image Playground. Shame it's not available on macOS yet.

 

[gmarm]

Nice little ad, for something I'll never use 😆

 

[svish]

Interesting ad. Genmoji is a cool and fun feature. Will be interesting to see all the new creations possible. Will be trying it out extensively.

 

[neptuna]

Looks cool and all, but seeing that I’m on a 14 Pro, I won’t have access to these features for another 4-5 years 🙃

 

[Skb3735]

It’s hard to access, should have been featured more prominently like Memojis

 

[PsykX]

I don't understand. Genmoji's been released but it's just available if you set your phone in English? This staggering is really becoming annoying.

I thought I read an article here saying it was released in English Canada as well but...

 

[2128506]

Dear Apple,

Can we, grown-ups, get some useful features instead?

 

[flybass]

Tried this on my Mac and lost interest within a few minutes. In my opinion, not on par with online free ai image generators. The 2 visual styles are clearly for children.

 

[Ankaa]

Dear Apple,

Can we, grown-ups, get some useful features instead?

Dear 2128506,

Apple has always been playful.

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But in all seriousness, I'm genuinely curious, with all the many many "grown-up features" already available, what specifically are you missing?

 

[Blackstick]

It's kind of fun. Especially for kids.

 

[lkrupp]

Think of all the CPU cycles and memory being wasted by this crap. But whatever.

 

[vantelimus]

Strikes me as an ad for preteens and teens. Not my thing but, glad others will use it.

It is a feature for preteens and teens. The ad was cute. I've used it and created a few. It can be a little bit of distracting fun, but to me it seems mostly distraction.

 

[vantelimus]

Think of all the CPU cycles and memory being wasted by this crap. But whatever.

And then think of all the money being spent because FOMO runs strong in this species.

 

[PsykX]

Think of all the CPU cycles and memory being wasted by this crap. But whatever.

Then again, if the Unicode group (where Apple has an important seat) votes for a new emoji, Apple may just take this tool to generate it right away instead of designing it from scratch. Which would save them time, money and these so called "CPU cycles".

I don't despise this new tool, on the contrary. I think it's playful and it's the kind of thing that Apple lacks nowadays to make their devices fun to use. Think of Photo Booth (which hasn't received new features in over 10-15 years), iMovie or GarageBand back in the days (which is so mature I couldn't even think of anything else - and you can upgrade to Logic if you're a Pro).

 

[Gengar]

These features may be quite dumb, but their ads always slap with this songs lol

I was about to say, that song is unironically a bop. 😂

 

[klasma]

Just started using genmoji and creating genmoji of people I know. It’s mind boggling how good they look

I, on the other hand, don’t know any good-looking people. 😢

 

[klasma]

Agreed! Sometimes. Some look incredible with how similar they are, and some don’t look anything like the people. My dad’s genmoji is VERY clearly my dad, hilariously so, but my mom’s genmoji doesn’t look anything like her.

If it was the other way around, I’d recommend a paternity DNA test.

 

[klasma]

They actually are. Apple has to conform to the Unicode standard (which emoji are part of) so as soon as Unicode releases new emojis Apple and others conform right away or it can lead to some seriously nasty bugs.

This is nonsense, technically speaking. The only thing that would happen is that a placeholder symbol would be displayed for unsupported emoji.

You can also test this by not upgrading to the latest iOS major version and have someone send you one of the new emoji.

Lastly, Genmoji aren’t Unicode.

 

[klasma]

But in all seriousness, I'm genuinely curious, with all the many many "grown-up features" already available, what specifically are you missing?

Pornmojis, probably.

 

[polyphenol]

They actually are. Apple has to conform to the Unicode standard (which emoji are part of) so as soon as Unicode releases new emojis Apple and others conform right away or it can lead to some seriously nasty bugs.

If that were the case, why is it that Microsoft "get away" with not implementing flag emoji on Windows?

Caused me lots of pain. You could add flags to Word documents on macOS and not see them in the same document in Windows.

 

[AndyUnderscoreR]

with all the many many "grown-up features" already available, what specifically are you missing?

An option to auto-block anyone who tries to send me a genmoji for a start…

 

[chrono1081]

This is nonsense, technically speaking. The only thing that would happen is that a placeholder symbol would be displayed for unsupported emoji.

You can also test this by not upgrading to the latest iOS major version and have someone send you one of the new emoji.

Lastly, Genmoji aren’t Unicode.

It's not nonsense but thanks for your baseless opinion.

EDIT: Also we aren't talking Genmoji, read the original post

 

[chrono1081]

If that were the case, why is it that Microsoft "get away" with not implementing flag emoji on Windows?

Caused me lots of pain. You could add flags to Word documents on macOS and not see them in the same document in Windows.

That's just one area of use, there are many more.