It also includes updates to Siri, Maps, Photos and Apple Music, and the ability to remove Apple’s default apps from your Home screen. Amongst the new emoji are a rainbow pride flag and a single-parent family, while female and minority versions of numerous sports players and other professions (such as construction workers, private investigators, and police officers) will also make appearances.
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Apple is working with the Unicode Consortium to ensure representation of diversity across emojis. A bright green water pistol now sits where the gun did, among swords and a coffin.
The iPhone maker announced Monday that it’s releasing a new set of emoji for iOS 10 this fall.
The change comes after some folks got in trouble with the law because they used the pistol and other weapon emojis in social media posts.
New emojis have been expected to be released with Apple’s latest software update after the Unicode Consortium approved new characters as part of Unicode 9.0.
There’s still no word, however, on the requested avocado or bacon emojis.
Apple’s change appears as it beta tests iOS 10 ahead of a planned release this fall, CNN Money said Tuesday. Earlier this year a group of Google employees put forward their proposal to create diverse emojis which depict women breaking away from professional conventions.
The pistol has always been a controversial emoji character.
Check out a selection of the new emojis below, or through Apple’s website.
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Apple previously protested the addition of a rifle emoji, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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