iOS 17.4 Beta Adds New Emoji: Shaking Head, Lime, Phoenix, Brown Mushroom and More

[MacRumors]

The iOS 17.4 beta that was released today introduces new emoji characters, which 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).

Mockup of new emoji via Emojipedia​

These characters are part of the Unicode 15.1 update that was approved in September 2023.

There are also 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.

This is a smaller update than we typically get, with fewer emoji characters, but that is because it is a .1 Unicode Consortium update rather than a major point update.

iOS 17.4 is limited to developers at the current time, but it should soon be coming to public beta testers. It will see an official launch sometime in March.

Article Link: iOS 17.4 Beta Adds New Emoji: Shaking Head, Lime, Phoenix, Brown Mushroom and More

 

[klasma]

Shaking head looks more like spinning head. SMH

 

[joptimus]

Where will it end? Why can this childish crap not be optional? 1 million emojis, who needs this?

Invest your energy into features that actually have some benefit for your users, apple!

 

[ignatius345]

Invest your energy into features that actually have some benefit for your users, apple!

I'm not 100% sure about this, but it could be that they have different people who design new Macs and iPhones, maintain iCloud services and so forth.

Or maybe you're right and it's just one huge pool of workers doing tasks totally at random.

 

[NMBob]

I'd say the 'shaking head vertically/yes' is just someone nodding off to sleep before they catch themself. Why are the eyes closed?

 

[spercharged69]

You can always tell who doesn't have any human interaction with anyone outside of their bubble by the people who don't understand why they keep adding emoji. To normal, non-tech oriented folks, "getting the new emoji" is a serious driver of installing an iOS update instead of constantly dismissing the prompt.

 

[joptimus]

I'm not 100% sure about this, but it could be that they have different people who design new Macs and iPhones, maintain iCloud services and so forth. Or maybe you're right and it's just one big pool of workers doing tasks totally at random.

You know what I said was not what you imply.

 

[nattK]

Where will it end? Why can this childish crap not be optional? 1 million emojis, who needs this?

Invest your energy into features that actually have some benefit for your users, apple!

The Unicode Consortium, not Apple, decides when to introduce new emojis. Apple is just keeping up with the Unicode update to avoid those new emojis appearing as boxes when texting someone else on a platform that has been updated to support the new Unicode standard.

 

[NMBob]

Where will it end? Why can this childish crap not be optional? 1 million emojis, who needs this?

Invest your energy into features that actually have some benefit for your users, apple!

Gotta have some way to communicate with Gen Ω.

 

[vegetassj4]

Shaking head horizontal looks like someone getting fish-hooked, and the vertical one looks like a bad combover.

I put my tongue on the "edible brown mushroom" and it didn't taste poisonous, but I am skeptical of putting the phone in my mouth.

 

[NightFox]

Where will it end? Why can this childish crap not be optional? 1 million emojis, who needs this?

Invest your energy into features that actually have some benefit for your users, apple!

For emoji-related articles, MacRumors should just have a drop-down list for people to select their comments from.

Alternatively we should set up an ’Emoji Comments Bingo’ which would include a reference to hieroglyphics and an explanation of how emojis aren’t decided by Apple.

 

[joptimus]

The Unicode Consortium, not Apple, decides when to introduce new emojis. Apple is just keeping up with the Unicode update to avoid those new emojis appearing as boxes when texting someone else on a platform that has been updated to support the new Unicode standard.

Fair enough, finally a useful answer! Still the question remains: where will it end? Will it not be ever more difficult to find exactly the right emoji in the plethora of options? Scroll, scroll, scroll…

 

[iLuddite]

Mushroom cloud

 

[Kylo83]

What’s the point of keep adding more and more irs already hard to find any and these are so random and just a few it just isn’t needed

 

[Rychiar]

They shoulda had a lime years ago… coulda just been a lemon skintone😅

 

[DblHelix]

Mushroom is good. Can stop using eggplant

 

[iGeneo]

Where will it end? Why can this childish crap not be optional? 1 million emojis, who needs this?

Invest your energy into features that actually have some benefit for your users, apple!

This is the "get off my lawn" of iOS updates argument

 

[klasma]

Where will it end?

Unicode supports 1,114,112 code points, of which currently roughly 150,000 are assigned. So about 964,000 emojis to go.

 

[Truben]

Where will it end? Why can this childish crap not be optional? 1 million emojis, who needs this?

Invest your energy into features that actually have some benefit for your users, apple!

Yeah, basics like a faster WiFi that recognizes and changes between stations automatically and not manually.

 

[klasma]

Fair enough, finally a useful answer! Still the question remains: where will it end? Will it not be ever more difficult to find exactly the right emoji in the plethora of options? Scroll, scroll, scroll…

Counterintuitively, the emoji keyboard has full-text search.

 

[klasma]

The Unicode Consortium, not Apple, decides when to introduce new emojis.

And the chair and co-chair of the Unicode emoji subcommittee are Apple employees. You can look it up on the Unicode website.

Apple is just keeping up with the Unicode update to avoid those new emojis appearing as boxes when texting someone else on a platform that has been updated to support the new Unicode standard.

Nah.

 

[mikelets456]

Gotta have some way to communicate with Gen Ω.

Good thing they're not in cursive...

 

[Pixelspeeper]

Am really tired of these new Emojis

 

[Fuzzball84]

Are those comb over and comb wrap hairstyle emoji?

 

[NightFox]

Yeah, basics like a faster WiFi that recognizes and changes between stations automatically and not manually.

Yep, because 802.11k, r and v feature heavily in computer graphic design courses.