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Next Emoji Coming to iOS Could Include Face With Eye Bags, Shovel, Fingerprint, Splatter and More
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Gotta laugh the way peeps in these emoji threads often think deciding on new emojis is Apple rather than the unicode consortium, even though it always says. Then they moan Apple is wasting time on emojis instead of other things. But you can bet if Android users started sending them the new unicode emojis and their iPhone couldn't understand them you can bet they'd be moaning how Apple can't keep up with Android. 😂
The graphic designers who adapt emojis to Apple's existing design language are probably different people than the ones who design other Apple software and hardware, I'd wager. But by all means, keep trotting out this tired old complaint.
More junk emojis I have to sort through to get to the few I like. I wish instead of a "recent" list it let you choose favorites to keep up.
the eggplant and splatter emojis.... just what the world was asking for.
This. iOS/macOS badly need a favorites tab for emojis. Out of all the available options, I barely use 10 to 15 max.
OK, how about the resources (salaries in this case) that can be spent on engineers instead of gfx design.
The kind of innovation we need
Apple adds new emoji to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other devices regularly based on updates made to the emoji catalog by the Unicode Consortium, and there are seven new emoji that we could see sometime in late 2024 or early 2025.
The next emoji characters being considered include face with bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter.
The Unicode Consortium today opened the beta review period for Unicode 16, which includes the new emoji characters. The beta period lasts until July 2, and after that, Unicode 16 will see a release and the new characters will be officially approved.
It often takes smartphone makers like Apple several months to create artwork for new emoji characters that are approved, so it is likely we won't see these new emoji until after iOS 18 launches. Apple will likely add the new characters sometime around March 2025, around when iOS 18.4 comes out.
Apple last introduced new emoji with the iOS 17.4 update that was released in March 2024. Characters added in iOS 17.4 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).
Article Link: Next Emoji Coming to iOS Could Include Face With Eye Bags, Shovel, Fingerprint, Splatter and More
Would you still be so outraged if you realized that Apple is not coming up with these emoji. The Unicode Consortium collects suggestions and then chooses new emoji each year. Then Apple, Google and other have to built them into their systems.
What don't you understand? Apple is not the driver here. The Unicode Consortium initiates and defined these based on popular demand. They issue the new definitions annually. Then the platform vendors, like Apple, have to generate icons for each and add them to their emoji fonts. It they didn't add them, people would be sending you texts with emoji and you would only see empty boxes. For better or worse, emoji are popular and a lot of people look for the new ones. If Apple didn't comply and add these, then their customers would complain.
FYI @SactoGuy18
It’s mentioned in the first sentence in the article, so clearly people have reading comprehension and genAI might do them actually good… I prefer reading myself
Did you notice the fingerprint emoji has a question mark in it? Maybe Apple suggesting Touch ID is not dead yet.A fingerprint emoji in a time when even the iPhone SE might be moving to Face ID? Now that's an ironic twist of fate.