Emoji Coming to Future iOS 17 Update Include Shaking Head, Brown Mushroom, Lime, Phoenix and More

[MacRumors]

As Apple was announcing new iPhone models last week, the Unicode Consortium was officially approving new emoji characters that are set to be added to smartphones starting in 2024.

Mockup of new emoji from Emojipedia​

Approved Unicode 15.1 emoji include phoenix, lime, an edible mushroom, shaking head vertically (as in a "yes" nod), shaking head horizontally (a "no" head shake), and broken chain.

There are four new family emoji combinations, along with updates to six people emoji that now have direction specifications such as facing right or facing left. The direction options can be used with person walking, person running, person kneeling, person with white cane, person in manual wheelchair, and person in motorized wheelchair.

Unicode updates often include quite a few emoji characters, so the 15.1 update is smaller in scale than a typical year. Unicode 15.1 does, however, add a number of new non-emoji characters for use in China.

Following the approval of new emoji characters, it takes smartphone makers like Apple several months to design artwork for the emoji and add them to iOS. We can expect to see the emoji updates in a future version of iOS 17.

Last year, Apple added new emoji to the iOS 16.4 update that was released in February 2023, so the company might follow a similar timeline in 2024. Last year's emoji additions included shaking face, pink heart, light blue heart, donkey, moose, goose, wing, jellyfish, hyacinth, pea pod, ginger, flute, maracas, and black bird.

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[cocky jeremy]

They're really going out of their way to make excuses to make more emojis at this point. I wish Apple would let us customize our main page in the emoji screen with our favorites instead of doing most recently used ones.

 

[macduke]

They're adding a flippin phoenix before the chef's kiss emoji??

Preposterous.

 

[chrono1081]

Friendly reminder Apple does NOT make the emojis, the Unicode Consortium does, Apple and others just have to adopt them or risk serious software bugs. Everytime there’s emoji posts someone gets angry because Apple didn’t do X thing and instead came out with new emojis.

 

[macsplusmacs]

Lime!

Always bothered me that it was missing.

 

[iBreatheApple]

Not that I have a better idea, but I feel like the nods could have been executed better.

 

[NightFox]

Still no submarine?

 

[ios3]

Friendly reminder Apple does NOT make the emojis, the Unicode Consortium does, Apple and others just have to adopt them or risk serious software bugs. Everytime there’s emoji posts someone gets angry because Apple didn’t do X thing and instead came out with new emojis.

I think what irritates people are that they are dealing with annoying iOS bugs, and the new iOS updates are headlined with new emojis instead of specific bug fixes (if any) 😂

 

[dmr727]

Not that I have a better idea, but I feel like the nods could have been executed better.

Absolutely. Those are terrible!

 

[headlessmike]

I think what irritates people are that they are dealing with annoying iOS bugs, and the new iOS updates are headlined with new emojis instead of specific bug fixes (if any) 😂

It’s catering to the people. Emojis are the only reason my family members ever care about OS updates.

 

[headlessmike]

Not that I have a better idea, but I feel like the nods could have been executed better.

These are just mockups by emojipedia based on the documentation from Unicode, not necessarily what they’ll actually look like in use.

 

[UKBeast]

Really sick of new emoji memoji rainbow contact poster and all these stuff… who cares. Just make things that are important to everyone. Start with reducing prices.

 

[ios3]

It’s catering to the people. Emojis are the only reason my family members ever care about OS updates.

I’m sure that’s part of it too. But I meant the poor reception is from users who are facing serious issues, or people on these forums that notice small/annoying bugs

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Still no secateurs, shears, clippers, trimmer, loppers, trowel or hand-trowel, fork or hand-fork, ride-on lawnmower or regular lawnmower.

 

[klasma]

(╯°□°)╯︵ı̣ɾ̣oɯǝ

 

[compwiz1202]

I've been waiting for this news for a while

 

[dugbug]

I propose the emoji reduction act. Cut them back down to 50 total.

Can you imagine texts in 10 years? just all emojis with a few conjunctions sprinkled in.

 

[compwiz1202]

Lime!

Always bothered me that it was missing.

So now we can do
(lime)
🥥

 

[blcamp]

Hieroglyphics, all over again. Future archeaologists are going to be WTF-ing about us.

 

[klasma]

Friendly reminder Apple does NOT make the emojis, the Unicode Consortium does, Apple and others just have to adopt them or risk serious software bugs. Everytime there’s emoji posts someone gets angry because Apple didn’t do X thing and instead came out with new emojis.

Apple holds both vice-chairs of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, and is a voting Unicode full member. One can assume they do have a non-negligible influence there.

 

[klasma]

Hieroglyphics, all over again. Future archeaologists are going to be WTF-ing about us.

Some of us already do.

 

[DJAdequate]

Just makes me wonder what weird sexual meaning they’ll all inevitably pick up. As an old guy, I don’t even dare use emoji anymore.

 

[headlessmike]

I propose the emoji reduction act. Cut them back down to 50 total.

Can you imagine texts in 10 years? just all emojis with a few conjunctions sprinkled in.

We’re well past that point: https://www.emojidick.com/

 

[KENESS]

Not that I have a better idea, but I feel like the nods could have been executed better.

They may well be. This are just someone's representations, not Apple's... Apple (and Google and everyone else who has to implement new emoji into their systems once they are created by the Unicode Consortium) create their own actual graphics when they add them.

 

[Rychiar]

Why has it taken this long to get a lime! Hell they coulda just given the lemon skin tones lol