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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.

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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.

Article Link: Emoji Coming to Future iOS 17 Update Include Shaking Head, Brown Mushroom, Lime, Phoenix and More
 
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ios3

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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) 😂
 

klasma

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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.
 

KENESS

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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.
 
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