It’s as if Chris Bowen has a direct line to Apple CEO Tim Cook. To celebrate World Emoji Day Apple have today shown off a preview of some of the new emojis coming soon to iOS devices – and there’s red heads and bald men in there.
As far as the classic smiley faces go there’s a new Face with hearts,
Cold Face,
Party Face,
and Pleading face:
For your more realistic faces, the People emojis are updated with Redheads,
Curly Hair,
Bald heads,
and Grey hair;
There’s a bunch of new animals coming,
And foods,
and some more random symbols just because:
And if you think emojis are some sort of laughing matter check out these stats from Messenger and Facebook.
The new emojis will come to an iOS update later this year, and of course other platforms will introduce their own version of these emojis soon too.
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