Apple’s iOS 15.4 update rolled out to users on Tuesday, and while all the focus has been on how Face ID works with masks, it brings other important changes: new emoji.
According to Apple, iOS 15.4 features more than 37 new emoji, including faces, hand gestures, and household objects. Users can also choose separate skin tones for each hand in the handshake emoji. New emojis include a melting face, a peek-a-boo face, and a face holding tears among other things.
Here’s a look at the new emoji pane from iOS 15.4 and where you might end up using it.
face emojis
iOS 15.4 beta includes seven new smiley emojis, according to emojipedia. There are melting facial emojis, which frankly could set the mood for all of us in the coming summer months, given that we’ll all be melting in some form thanks to global warming.
There is also a “sniper eyes” emoji, which is meant to be used when one wants to look away from something scary or embarrassing. The emoji should come in handy when reading some cool WhatsApp messages that tend to forward.
Apple’s seven new face emojis. (Express Photo)
Then there’s the “Face Holding Back Tears” emoji, which can be used for a range of emotions. More specifically, when the “work from home” finally ends and the mandatory 5-day office attendance is a comeback. The new ‘face with a diagonal mouth’ can also be used to express the same set of emotions.
The “Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth” is also new and is supposed to have a more neutral expression compared to the previous design. This is also used to express shock and surprise. We think it will be very useful when one looks at their investment portfolio these days.
Apple has also added an emoji for the “Dotted Line Face” which is meant to be used to represent something invisible. It can also be used to represent depression and isolation, according to emojipedia.
There is also a face emoji with the right salute, which is meant as a sign of respect.
Apple object and other hand emoji. (Express Photo)
Other emoji
The update also includes new hand gestures, which include a single emoji where the index finger is pointing toward the viewer, as in the popular Uncle Sam poster. There is also an emoji where the hands are joined together in the shape of a heart. In case you are tired of writing black, purple, and red hearts in the comments, you can use this instead.
Then there is the one-handed emoji with the index finger and thumb crossed, while the rest of the hand makes a fist. Apparently, this is a finger flip popularized by South Korean celebrities, so all K-drama fans can use this freely. For some of us, this gesture would be better used in the context of money or rather the lack of it.
The list of hand emojis also includes the right and left hand along with the palm and the palm of the hand. Apple has also added support for different skin tones in all handshakes and new hand emojis for better inclusivity.
Other comprehensive emojis include a person with a crown, a pregnant man, and a new pregnant man. There is also a dwarf emoji with the update. Very useful if you are a journalist who uses Twitter.
Other items on the list are coral, lotus, empty nest then nest with eggs, red beans, pouring liquid, urn, playground slide, wheel, buoy, whisper (hand to eye on palm), mirror ball, low battery, crutch, beams X, bubbles, tag and tag heavy equations, according to emojipedia.
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