Apple celebrated World Emoji Day on Monday by sharing a peek at the new emoji that are on their way to iOS, macOS, and watchOS later this year.
With thousands of emoji available on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac, there are many ways to add personality to every message. New emoji include Woman with Headscarf, Bearded Person and Breastfeeding, and food items such as Sandwich and Coconut. More animals and mythical creatures like T-Rex, Zebra, Zombie and Elf are a fun way to describe situations and new Star-Struck and Exploding Head smiley faces make any message more fun.
All of the emoji Apple offered a peek at on Monday were included in the new Unicode 10 standard posted back in June.
Apple didn’t announce an exact date for the release of the new emoji into the wild, but they will likely make an appearance alongside iOS 11, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and watchOS 4, which are expected to debut early this fall.
The 56 new emoji code points in Unicode 10.0 (which will likely make an appearance in Apple’s operating systems), are:
