Apple announced new iPhone models last week. Then, about a week after the event, the most current operating system for iPhones, iOS 17, was released. Meanwhile, the Unicode Consortium has officially approved new emoji characters to be added to smartphones starting from 2024. Therefore, future emojis for iOS 17 have also emerged.
Emojis coming to iOS 17 in 2024
Approved Unicode 15.1 emojis include a phoenix, a lime, a mushroom, a vertical head nod (as in a “yes” nod), a horizontal head nod (as in a “no” head nod), and a broken chain. In addition to the four new family emoji combinations, there are also updates to six person emojis that now feature directional features such as looking right or looking left.
In addition, direction options will now be available for the person walking, the person running, the person kneeling, the person with a white cane, the person in a manual wheelchair and the person in a motorized wheelchair. Unicode updates often include large numbers of emoji characters, so the 15.1 update is smaller in scale than a typical update. But Unicode 15.1 also adds a number of new non-emoji characters for use in China.
Once new emoji characters are approved, it takes several months for smartphone manufacturers like Apple to design artwork for emoji and add them to iOS. So, the emojis you see above are not their final version. Apple will draw these specifically for iOS 17. We can expect to see emoji updates in a future version of iOS 17.
Last year, Apple added new emojis to the iOS 16.4 update released in February 2023. Therefore, the company may follow a similar timeline in 2024. Among the emojis added last year were emojis such as shaking face, pink heart, light blue heart, donkey, deer and goose.
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