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Bigfoot, Orca, Distorted Smiley Face and Treasure Chest Among New Emoji Coming to iOS
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I will just say how garbage Books is on all of the Mac Platforms....100% garbage.
I'd rather they took a sector at a time, such as trees, and made sure that they added each of the most widespread, well-known species so that the chance of finding the right emoji was much higher. And did so as this years project rather than what look like random individual additions. As it is, they have a conifer, an indeterminate broad-leaved tree and a palm tree. Then a Christmas tree. So four emjoi to represent untold millions of trees.
I'd also like a randomiser. If I want to add ten trees, allow them to optionally have some random variation from one to another. Ask "exact repeat or randomly varied?"
And my earlier comment was meant to be mildly humorous - not serious.
Nobody is opting for generated emojis with those eyes.
Hilarious to me that "AI" image generators are still so hit and miss with eyes and often the entire face.
Everything else is usually great or acceptable. But the eyes just scream "generated image".
You do understand the difference between an Apple-only, Genmoji-generated sticker and a standard Unicode emoji, right?
- Bring back a way to play purchased content not in the Music and TV advertising platforms, in a player that actually cares what the user wants
- Fix notifications!
-1 year new feature / 1 year bugfix release cycle!
And get those kids off my lawn!!
Not sure what happened, also I wish the emoji we create didn’t post as these gigantic images, not sure if there’s a way around that.
Not sure if you're trying to be funny, but you should learn about Unicode either way.
It's just an image, which Messages displays similarly to a standard emoji size-wise. In reality I believe there's some embedded metadata that Apple uses to render it properly, but it won't carry over to other platforms.
Also you can't add it in a stream of text, since it's not a set or characters like standard emoji.
If only someone would create a universal code for a Bigfoot emoji… oh wait.
I understand. But the difference is not only in Android compatibility. Emoji can be inlined with text, since they’re made from a string of characters. Each platform renders this string with their own artwork.
Genmoji however, it’s very different and Apple only in the sense in how they’re rendered. I believe other platforms simply receive an image or sticker.
I wish there was a meaning of what emoji is, when you press and? Maybe it’s only me, but I have no idea what most of them mean.
Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji recommendations came out [PDF].
Eight new emoji characters have been proposed, including hairy creature (like Bigfoot), distorted face, fight cloud, apple core, orca, trombone, landslide, and treasure chest. There are also skin tone variations for a number of existing emoji like ballet dancer, people with bunny ears, and people wrestling.
The Unicode consortium created mockups of what the emoji might look like, with the images shared by Emojipedia. It is important to note that the Unicode Consortium only comes up with the underlying emoji code, and Apple designers will create their own version of each character in the Apple style when the Unicode 17 standard is finalized.
Unicode 17 will likely be approved sometime next fall, though it will take Apple time to implement the new characters. We could see them around spring 2026 if Apple sticks with its typical emoji release timeline.
In 2025, Apple will introduce the Unicode 16 characters, which were approved in September 2024. Unicode 16 emoji include face with bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter.
Apple last introduced new emoji with the iOS 17.4 update that was released in March 2024. Characters added in iOS 17.4 include lime, an edible brown mushroom, a phoenix, a broken chain, shaking head vertically (as in a "yes" nod), and shaking head horizontally (a "no" head shake).
With iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, Apple will debut Genmoji for devices that support Apple Intelligence. Genmoji are a customizable version of emoji that are generated based on a phrase supplied by the user. Genmoji behave like emoji on Apple devices, but are not cross-platform and don't display like emoji characters on Android devices.
Article Link: Bigfoot, Orca, Distorted Smiley Face and Treasure Chest Among New Emoji Coming to iOS
