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Everything New in iOS 26.4 Beta 4
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without a new Siri and RCS 3.0, my iPhone stays on iOS 18. no sale
Android has its own problems that have people switching to iOS.
Astuces iOS
macrumors 68020
Android will fix them and people will go back or go with android if apple stars to be delulu like they do a bit now... things need to change !
Astuces iOS
macrumors 68020
Compared to others X.4 updates, probably yes
Tagbert
macrumors 604
Emoji are not decided by Apple. Google will be adding the same emojis. The set of emoji are decided internationally and everyone needs to get up to speed before they get widespread use.
There is an international group, the Unicode Consortium, that defines new emojis each year. Usually less than 10 new ones per year. It is then necessary for each platform maker, like Apple Google, and Microsoft, to create emoji characters and add them to the built in character set. This is needed to be done each year so that when people start using them to send messages, people don't end up with just boxes where they expected an emoji.
And for the record, emoji are very popular, though of course, some are more popular than others.
Digital Dude
macrumors 68000
Neon colors and cartoon emojis. Boy, now that’s high tech! 👨‍🔬
Jay Bly
macrumors 6502
CarlJ
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Extraordinarily unlikely (they don't want to do anything remotely resembling monitoring your personal communications), and keep in mind that Apple is not coming up with new emoji, they are simply implementing new ones that are periodically added to the Unicode standard by the "Emoji Standard & Research Working Group", part of the Unicode Consortium. If you want less emoji, that working group is who you need to talk to.
What the h… did they do to the thumbnail previews in iMessage? Talk about making your eyes bleed. The opened photo appears correctly. But geez, fix that RIGHT AWAY!
eveluvsrainbows
macrumors 6502a
This is not an airport, you do not need to announce your departure. Although I believe you are making a huge mistake by moving away from Apple’s computers, considering how terrible other computer vendors are and how poor Windows has become. macOS has its flaws, sure, but nowhere near as significant in number compared to the amount of flaws Windows has.
Wait … Apple has to implement all new ones?? Because that is what the last sentence seems to imply.
CATiNTHESTORE
macrumors 6502a
Tell me please, which problem? Do they also have stupid liquid glass ? Clean Android 16 is pleasant to use on Google Pixel.
That dude “I’m so excited to present you a new era of UI design - Liquid Glass ” and then after presentation he leaves Apple for a Meta if I’m not mistaken. What a surprise)
CATiNTHESTORE
macrumors 6502a
Diopter
macrumors regular
Did an AI assemble that emoji image? The treasure chest appears twice.
Really! I learned via the link provided in post #33 that there are 3,663 emojis. You’d think that would include one for such an “iconic” analog medium as the vinyl record. But it must be too outdated when compared to these:
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The second one has a replica of the 24k gold plaque hidden at the bottom.
CarlJ
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They could decide not to support all the characters (emoji or otherwise) added to the Unicode character set.
They could also decide to not bother supporting all the letters in the English language.
Neither move would make them particularly popular.
The emoji are being added to the Unicode standard. Apple could say, "well, we're only going to partially support the standard" - nobody is forcing them to support the standard, but then when people on other platforms (Android, Windows, etc.) sent messages or text of any sort that contains the characters that Apple chose not to support, recipients on Apple platforms would see a little "(character missing)" box in place of each one of those characters in the document/message/whatever, and would complain that Apple devices were broken.
If you want to stop the rate at which emoji are getting added to Unicode, you need to talk to the emoji working group in the Unicode Consortium. Complaining to, or about, Apple, doesn't help the situation. (And this comes up every single time that MacRumors mentions new emoji in a new release of Apple software of any sort.)
I upgraded my iPhone 16 Pro from iOS 26 beta 3 to beta 4 and it took nearly 2 hours as it sat with a hair left of remaining process on the boot screen with the Apple logo. Whatever process it ran (tried plugging it to grab logs but failed) it clearly needed its time to do its thing. I suspect a SQLite db process that involved a lot of table changes but it’s unsubstantiated and just a theory at this point.
one more
macrumors 603
This is a question of a personal taste, though, some people prefer iOS 26, others - Android 16. They are not radically different, IMO.
I guess people are disappointed right now as iOS 26.4 was meant to tune up Siri in a big way and instead we have a bunch of new emojis, RCS beta and some minor cosmetic tweaks.
CATiNTHESTORE
macrumors 6502a
Ppl disappointed about Siri long long time ago when iPhone 16 was released with “Apple Intelligence” ads . And what we got on top of that ?) - Liquid Glass, nice!