Apple has released a rainbow flag emoji. Earlier when there was a talk to include the rifle emoji in Unicode 9, Apple, along with Microsoft, put its foot down and lobbied hard to ensure that no such emoji is included.
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The original gun emoji has been around for six years, and the change comes without any specific explanation.
With more than 100 new emoji soon to be available with iOS 10, Apple released images showing 12 of them.
Both Google and Apple’s new emojis were created in collaboration with the Unicode Consortium, the organization that’s in charge of adding new emojis.
Sports such as weight lifting, basketball and surfing now include depictions of women alongside female builders and private investigators complete with new skin colour variations. Apple has made a progressive announcement of launching over hundred new emojis that depict women in a stark contrast to conventional depictions.
The new emojis not only celebrate gender diversity but also sexuality, as the much-needed rainbow flag has also been added to the list.
Additionally, “A French court ruled a pistol emoji could constitute a death threat, sentencing a man to three months in prison for texting the gun to his ex-girlfriend”.
IOS 10 beta 4 is now available for developers and can be downloaded from the Apple Developer Center or over-the-air on devices running previous iOS 10 betas.
Unicode recently rolled out a set of 72 new emojis and Twitter was the first to launch the same on its platform.
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Apple has announced a new feature in its upcoming iOS 10 software, and some of the changes could be considered politically correct.
