118 new emojis are coming to iPhones — including new foods, animals and gender-neutral families
NY Post
This warrants two digital thumbs way up.
Craving fresh ways to express yourself pictorially? Not to fear: iPhone users will soon be able to enhance their graphic vocabulary with the addition of a whopping 118 new emojis, including a phoenix, a shaking head, and four gender-neutral families.
The emojis are available as part of a beta version of the new IOS 17.4, slated to drop sometime this Spring.
“It’s likely that the final public release of iOS 17.4 will come to users in March or April 2024,” said Keith Broni, 32, the editor-in-chief of the reference site Emojipedia, which approved the latest additions, per the Daily Mail.
Dubbed 15.1, the emoji expansion pack — versions of which will also be available on Samsung and other devices — is “drawn from Unicode’s September 2023 recommendations,” per the Emojipedia boss.
They notably include “six brand new emoji concepts”: A head shaking horizontally, a head shaking vertically, a phoenix, lime, brown mushroom and broken chain.
