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iOS 18.4 Beta Adds New Emoji: Face With Eye Bags, Splatter, Fingerprint, Shovel and More
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Shovel alone is a good enough reason to get an iphone
Can they focus on making their OSes better rather than making these useless emojis?
Apple's literally one of the "Full Members" of the Unicode Consortium...
They are 1 of 8 full members, and 1 of 11 voting members. I don't see your point?
That's not the checkmate you think it is. Lots of companies are members, that's how standards committees work.
EDIT: To clarify, the members dont even come up with the emoji, they simply weed through emoji suggestions the public proposes and the consortium picks a few new ones each year.
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The post I was replying to was saying that Apple is simply "conforming" to the Unicode spec and not influencing it. I'm simply pointing out that they do participate in the creation of new emoji.
Personally, I think the money Apple is spending on that effort could be better used elsewhere.
Only Apple systems have Apple Intelligence, emojis are a standard used across all modern devices.
I will be using 'Face With Eye Bags' a lot. It's very 2025 (well, not for all).
Great move. Why would Apple use its technical talent to make Siri actually useful when it can develop new emojis instead?
In the second iOS 18.4 beta that Apple released today, there are a selection of new emoji characters, including bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter.
The emojis are part of the Unicode 16 Standard that was released in September 2024.
It often takes Apple several months to create artwork for new emoji characters that are approved, so it is no surprise that we're not seeing the September 2024 emoji until now.
Apple last added new emoji with the iOS 17.4 update that came out in March 2024, introducing 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).
Next year, we'll get the Unicode 17 emoji, and those characters include hairy creature (like Bigfoot), distorted face, fight cloud, apple core, orca, trombone, landslide, and treasure chest.
Article Link: iOS 18.4 Beta Adds New Emoji: Face With Eye Bags, Splatter, Fingerprint, Shovel and More
Yeah, we can all agree that the AI team was good in 2018-2021 (because yes there was AI in a few places in our iPhones back then), but then they stopped innovating and today they're 3-4 years behind.
Interesting... can search for them by typing their name in the Emoji keyboard but they aren't in the Emoji keyboard when scrolling
Maybe Apple is still deciding where in the keyboard they want them
Maybe Apple is still deciding where in the keyboard they want them
That face with bags under the eyes is me every time Apple releases more emoji.
It's so difficult to scroll through and find what one is looking for anyway, that any time I do actually want to use an emoji, search is basically the only practical way.
I couldn't even say for sure that they aren't there. Scrolling through a thousand of them in that tiny little square, I couldn't say for certain I hadn't just missed it.
All it’s missing is a chalk outline emoji.Did CSI sponsor this grouping of emojis?
Crime scene charades, emoji addition
Is the bags under eyes emoji shorthand for Apple Intelligence?
We have a squirt gun emoji, homie. Chalk outline is probably not gonna happen, although it would be cool if they did it. Does someone sell a "subversive" emoji pack in the App Store? Where your emojis aren't nerfed?
That sounds like the most annoying group chat in the world. Emojis are way less annoying than constant gif usage.