2019 emoji list is getting closer to being finalized
Work continues on next year’s emoji list, which will officially be announced in the spring. On Tuesday, information about the Emoji 12.0 Beta was released.
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Check out 70+ emoji coming to iPhone, iPad, Mac & Apple Watch with iOS 12.1 this fall
New emoji coming to iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch this fall with iOS 12.1 include fresh characters with red hair, gray hair and curly hair, a brand-new emoji for bald people, more emotive smiley faces and additional emoji representing animals, sports and foods.
Apple celebrates World Emoji Day with preview of new 2018 characters
On this World Emoji Day, Apple’s promoting the 70 new emojis that are coming to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac this fall.
Even before iOS 12 launches, candidate emojis for 2019 announced
New emoji characters for the upcoming iOS 12 release have already been announced. Now, Emojipedia is offering a peek at the candidates for 2019. Next year’s list could include a sloth, onion, beverage box, yo-yo, and more.
UniChar uses Machine Learning to make finding special characters easier
UniChar is a cool little app and keyboard, and offers access to a huge world of Unicode characters that are otherwise absent within the standard iOS keyboard. If you’re looking for a more hipster way to send emoji, or need access to more complex symbols, check out UniChar.
iOS 11.2.5 beta 6 fixes the ChaiOS “text bomb” Messages bug
The annoying bug, that lets pranksters crash your device by texting you a malicious link, appears to have been addressed in yesterday’s iOS 11.2.5 beta 6 release. If you don’t have the beta installed on your device, here’s what you can do to protect yourself from this “text bomb”.
These new emojis could be coming to iOS soon
There are 130 emojis currently proposed for version 11.
Frowning pile of poo and other new emojis added for inclusion in 2018’s Unicode 11
Some of the 67 new emoji proposed for inclusion in Unicode 11: flying disc, smiling face with three hearts, smiling face with party hat, blue face with icicles and frowning pile of poo.
Unicode 10 offers 56 new emoji, including t-rex, vampire, flying saucer, crazy face, pie & more
Say hello to the 56 new emoji in Unicode 10, including dumpling, sandwich, chopsticks, pretzel, orange heart, elf, fairy, mage, exploding head, vomitting face and more.
69 new emoji coming this summer, including shush face, T-Rex, fortune cookie & more
The Unicode Consortium yesterday previewed an additional 69 new emoji characters coming this summer as part of Emoji 5.0. Some of the newly proposed faces, foods, creatures and other characters include the Tyrannosaurus Rex, a mermaid, fortune cookie, shush face and more.
All of these new emoji characters are technically still in draft mode, but Unicode is expected to release the final version this summer.
watchOS 3.1.1 released with latest Unicode 9.0 emoji, changeable skin tones, bug fixes & more
Happy updates day, everyone! Apple is today unleashing a barrage of updates for its software platforms, starting with a feature-packed iOS 10.2 release and tvOS 10.1 with support for Single Sign-On, Apple’s new “TV” app and more. Also available today: watchOS 3.1.1, a minor release with bug fixes, performance improvements and support for more than a hundred new Unicode 9.0 emoji which are also available in iOS 10.2 and via the upcoming macOS 10.12.2 software update.
Beloved butt-looking peach emoji is back in iOS 10.2 beta 3, looks even more like a butt
The first developer-only beta of the upcoming iOS 10.2 software update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch brought out more than a hundred new emoji characters, including clown face, selfie, owl, shark, butterfly and pancakes, as well as updated designs for many of the existing, older emojis.
Somewhere through the process of redrawing some of the longstanding emojis, Apple realized its design for the peach emoji didn’t quite look like a butt as the massive discontent among users vehemently insisted.
But don’t you panic, emoji lovers and sexting addicts: iOS 10.2 beta 3 packs in a proper butt-looking peach emoji, as noted by The Next Web.