Apple has recently rolled out a new beta of iOS 10.2 to developers and amongst the most notable features of the update is the addition of new emoji. The new supported emoji features some of the most popular expression for modern netizens such as the facepalm and icons that have been popular in social media sites such as bacon.
GSM Arena reports that Apple finally supports the Unicode 9.0 emoji set and this features ideas and icons that Apple users have been longing to put in their text such as rolling on the floor laughing and selfie. Apple has also redesigned its animal and food emoji and it now looks like they have been totally repainted and give a more natural look now which suits most high resolution Retina displays which its devices features.
Another exciting addition by iOS 10.2 beta are three new wallpapers for the iPhone 7, which are being used for the promotional material for these devices but were not initially included on the devices when they were released. Other new features include a new celebrations effect in iMessage, a widget for the Video app and an option to rate music from one to five starts in the Music app.
The camera app gets more user friendly as users can now save settings done for the camera so the next time the camera is used, the settings no longer get reset to auto. Slash Gear reports that Apple now supports the 72 new Unicode 9 emoji which was announced this year and its users can now express themselves better with a Harambe emoji, a shrug and much more that appeal to the masses.
This might not sound like a lot but it involves a lot of effort for the developers behind it since members of the Unicode Consortium which controls the standardized set of emoji, have to agree on what should be there. This time, it is reported that Apple had vetoed against two emoji to be included in its update which featured cartoonized guns.
What they did was they made the gun look like a harmless water pistol rather than a deadly weapon at roughly the same time Microsoft repackaged its representation. The result was more of a laser blaster from a sci-fi kid friendly cartoon instead of an actual revolver with bullets.
