If you have an iPhone, iPad, or other Apple device, you'll get a few more emojis to use later this year, and to coincide with Emoji Day, Apple just released the first batch. As published on the Emojipedia blog, 13 emoji originating from Apple devices have been revealed. They include a dodo, a boomerang, a human heart, lungs, bubble tea, and the transgender symbol. It's a fair mix of different things, so it's a good performance for the company, but it's not the full slate to come later in the year by any means. In fact, when iOS 14 rolls out (or whenever the next set of emoji is released for Apple devices), it will include no less than 117.
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The emoji world is strangely bureaucratic. In January, the new emoji for 2020 were revealed by the Unicode Consortium, which dictates the emoji released each year. The next step is for companies like Apple, Google and Facebook to design their own versions of the ``core'' emoji, which they use on their own platforms. You may have expected more face mask or socially distant emoji, but these latest models were approved in January, before the world felt the full force of Covid-19, so maybe 'in 2021, there will be more socially-themed emoji. pandemic. The 13 emoji unveiled by Apple were among the 117 unveiled in January (well, 65 if you don't count the different skin tone versions of the same emoji), so the company still has a lot to show off later in the year. When Apple publishes its full list of emoji, and when Facebook and Google offer their alternatives, we'll let you know.