Apple’s just unveiled the new emoji coming to iPhones later this year Apple emoji 2020
If you’ve got an iPhone, iPad or other Apple device, you’re going to be getting a good few more emoji to use later in the year, and to coincide with Emoji Day, Apple has just unveiled the first batch of them.
As published on the Emojipedia blog, thirteen emoji coming to Apple devices have just been unveiled. They include a dodo, a boomerang, a human heart, lungs, bubble tea, and the transgender symbol.
That’s a fair mix of different things, so it’s a good showing for the company, but it’s not the whole list coming later in the year by any means. In fact, when iOS 14 rolls out (or whenever the next emoji set gets released for Apple devices), there are actually 117 coming.
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The world of emoji is a strangely bureaucratic one.
In January, the new emoji for 2020 were unveiled by the Unicode Consortium, which dictates the emoji released each year. The next stage is for companies like Apple, Google and Facebook to design their own versions of the ‘base’ emoji, which they use on their own systems.
You may have expected more face mask-clad or socially distant emoji, but these ones were approved in January before many countries felt the full force of Covid-19, so perhaps in 2021 there will be more.
The 13 emoji shown off by Apple are part of the 117 shown off in January (well, 65 if you don’t count different skin tone versions of the same emoji), so the company still has plenty left to show off later in the year.
When the full list of Apple emoji is shown off, or when Facebook and Google come up with their alternatives, we’ll let you know, so you can decide which is best.
If you’ve got an iPhone, iPad or other Apple device, you’re going to be getting a good few more emoji to use later in the year, and to coincide with Emoji Day, Apple has just unveiled the first batch of them. As published on the Emojipedia blog, thirteen emoji coming…
