Emojis have added a lot of personalities and loads of fun to our online conversations through the new iPhone emojis. A happy statement can really sound joyous when you pair it up with a grinning emoji. You can now express total devastation by sending the wailing emoji. Some people enjoy creating stories and guessing games with emojis. Now, there are more ways to express yourself in sending messages with newest iPhone emojis!
Emoji is a Japanese term, which translates to picture character. The resemblance to the words emotion and emoticon is pure coincidence. Emojis originated from Japan on its mobile phones in the early 90s. The world later caught up with the Japanese frenzy when it was introduced on iPhones and Androids. To continue with the trend, Apple is continuously introducing new iPhone emojis.
What are we expecting for the new iPhone emojis? The Unicode Consortium has proposed dozens of these emojis. The best emojis out there are the vampire, bearded man, pretzel, shushing smiley, starry eyed smiley, hot pie, and disc shaped UFO.
For smileys, the new iPhone emojis have the rolling sideways smiley to show the recepient that the sender is actually 'ROFLing' or rolling on the floor laughing. There are also more ways to show how sick the recepient is; like the smiley with a Kleenex and the smiley that looks green and about to puke! 2016 was a year of the creepy and crazy clowns, so they added a clown smiley in there.
For activities, there are new iPhone emojis for taking a selfie, yoga, rock climbing and sauna. There's also the breastfeeding mom. In fashion, they added more definition to some items like the boots, stilettos, and hats. Apple also added the hipster Herschel bag in red.
You can pair the hipster bag emoji with the old-fashioned gadgets, cameras and alarm clocks that they added on the emoji tech section. For the "Super Mario" game fans, there's the "Super Mario" mushroom that will be released along with the other new iPhone emojis.
For food junkies, there's a whole lot of new iPhone emojis for us to tempt our dieting friends to eat more. Users can send their friends with hot pies, cheeseburgers, pancakes and a smiling devil emoji. They can even pair it up with a sinister laugh!
There's also a lot of new characters included in the new iPhone emojis set, like a girl on her laptop, graduates and art students. Although there are already an LGBT-friendly emojis and a wide range of racial representations with different skin tones, Muslims have yet to find an emoji to represent themselves.
Fortunately, Rayouf Alhumedh managed to get Unicode to introduce the new emoji for Muslims. The new iPhone emojis help senders freely represent themselves in the best way possible. Rayouf is a 15 year old girl that currently lives in Berlin but was originally from Saudi Arabia. Like any other teenager, Rayouf use emojis to represent herself but couldn't find the right emoji for her.
The teenager told Washington Post she wanted a Muslim woman wearing a hijab emoji to represent millions of other women who wear the headscarf. After several months of campaigning, she finally got her request. The emoji with a hijab will be part of the new iPhone emojis.
Apple iPhone users will get to enjoy these new iPhone emojis next year. The tech company will released the new emojis with the new iOS 10.2 by 2017.