As Apple was asserting new iPhone fashions final week, the Unicode Consortium was formally approving new emoji characters which can be set to be added to smartphones beginning in 2024.
Permitted Unicode 15.1 emoji embrace phoenix, lime, an edible mushroom, shaking head vertically (as in a “sure” nod), shaking head horizontally (a “no” head shake), and damaged chain.
There are 4 new household emoji mixtures, together with updates to 6 folks emoji that now have path specs resembling dealing with proper or dealing with left. The path choices can be utilized with individual strolling, individual operating, individual kneeling, individual with white cane, individual in guide wheelchair, and individual in motorized wheelchair.
Unicode updates typically embrace fairly a couple of emoji characters, so the 15.1 replace is smaller in scale than a typical yr. Unicode 15.1 does, nonetheless, add quite a few new non-emoji characters to be used in China.
Following the approval of latest emoji characters, it takes smartphone makers like Apple a number of months to design paintings for the emoji and add them to iOS. We are able to anticipate to see the emoji updates in a future model of iOS 17.
Final yr, Apple added new emoji to the iOS 16.4 replace that was launched in February 2023, so the corporate may comply with an analogous timeline in 2024. Final yr’s emoji additions included shaking face, pink coronary heart, gentle blue coronary heart, donkey, moose, goose, wing, jellyfish, hyacinth, pea pod, ginger, flute, maracas, and black chook.