What New Emoji from 14.0 Are We Excited About?

At Emoji Foundation we are excited about the bubble emoji, because it is long overdue and iridescent. And speaking of things that are shiny, there is also a mirror ball.

We foresee the low battery and eyes brimming with tears being crowd pleasers and personal daily use Emoji. As they both are useful for expressing everyday feelings. Who hasn’t felt like they had low batteries and and needed a recharge? Similarly, I picture the eyes brimming with tears as a popular Tiktok video response in the days to come.

The New 14.0 Emoji Set

Do you have waiting for the president to be announced jitters? Time to grab your phone and hit the update button, because there were 64 new Emoji added to iPhones everywhere!

• Unicode released a preview of the new emoji coming to smartphones in 2020 back in January.
• They include more animals, non-gendered characters, and other features.
• They are included in iOS 14.2 for iPhones, just released by Apple.
• Here’s a look at all 64 of the new generation of emoji.

Unicode, the cross-industry consortium that decides on text-based standards for the internet, announced 64 new emoji for the year back in January, with more options for animals, plants, and more. Those emoji include polar bears, bubble tea, and our favorite: the Trans Flag!

The new emoji are included in iOS 14.2, which was just released. These new characters will probably be available for iPhone owners sometime in October. 

Check out all 64 new emoji here:

Smiling face with tear

Disguised face

Pinched fingers (with skin tones)

Anatomical heart

Lungs

Ninja (with skin tones)

Person in tuxedo (with skin tones)

Woman in tuxedo (with skin tones)

Person with veil (with skin tones)

Man with veil (with skin tones)

Woman feeding baby (with skin tones)

Man feeding baby (with skin tones)

Person feeding baby (with skin tones)

Mx. Claus (with skin tones)

People hugging

Black cat

Bison

Mammoth

Beaver

Polar Bear

Dodo

Seal

Beetle

Feather

Cockroach

Fly

Worm

Olive

Flatbread

Potted plant

Bell pepper

Tamales

Teapot

Fondue

Rock

Bubble tea

Log

Hut

Roller skate

Magic wand

Piñata

Nesting dolls

Pickup truck

Sewing needle

Coin

Military helmet

Thong sandal

Accordion

Knot

Saw

Boomerang

Screwdriver

Plunger

Hook

Window

Ladder

Elevator

Mirror

Mouse trap

Placard

Headstone

Toothbrush

Trans flag

Trans symbol

The Covid-19 pandemic is even affecting the release of new Emoji!

The Unicode Consortium, the group behind emoji releases, announced today that it’s delaying its version planned for 2021, meaning that devices won’t receive new emoji next year and instead will get a release in 2022. The good news is that the emoji that were announced earlier this year, like the olive, beaver, and plunger, will still be available this fall. Unicode says the delay is happening because it relies on volunteers who are currently overwhelmed dealing with the pandemic.

“Under the current circumstances we’ve heard that our contributors have a lot on their plates at the moment and decided it was in the best interests of our volunteers and the organizations that depend on the standard to push out our release date,” said Mark Davis, president of the consortium, in the group’s blog post.

This means the deadline for submitting new emoji is also pushed back. People can submit their ideas from June 15th until September 1st. Again, though, these won’t show up on devices until 2022.

Here is a sneak peek at the next round of new Emoji we can expect to see next year on our phones.

All sample Emoji v 13.0 Images by Emojipedia

The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that maintains text standards to support all the world’s written languages across every device, today debuted a new look for unicode.org.

The Consortium invites emoji and language enthusiasts to celebrate World Emoji Day on July 17 and “Adopt a Character” to support its ongoing efforts. More than 136,000 characters are up for adoption — including this new Emoji 12.0 additions such as the sloth, the sea otter, the waffle and Saturn.

Those who choose to adopt will receive a custom digital badge they can display to publicly show their support, whether on their website or social media. Learn more and adopt your character here.

Apple offers a look at new emoji coming to iPhone this fall

To celebrate World Emoji Day, Apple is previewing a selection of new emoji coming this fall, revealing the newest designs that bring even more diversity to the keyboard, alongside fun and exciting additions to popular categories of food, animals, activities and smiley faces. We’re most excited about the new mixed gender and skin tone couple Emoji, which is something we have called for at Emoji Foundation for a while now.  You can see the new designs in Apple’s press release.

The Most Popular New Emoji for 2019 from World Emoji Awards

Announced live at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy, the winner of the 2019 award for Most Popular New Emoji went to   Smiling Face With Hearts.

via Emojipedia

UMLAUT SUES EMOJI FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Lawyers working on the behalf of Germanic vowel alternation have filed a class action against ‘cheap and disrespectful’ ideograms. Too often complicated exchanges are being reduced down to a basic sequence of winking face, heavy black heart and Theresa May burning Windrush documentation.
A spokesman for Umlauts explained: ‘My client has been squiggling over the International Phonetic Alphabet for over a thousand years. Quite frankly it’s insulting to see some gurning chancer telling us how to feel – when James Corden will do that for free’.

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Unicode considers new color variations for Emoji

This could be used for emoji representations of a black cat or a glass of white wine, for example. For more info, see the Working Draft for Proposed Update UTS #51: Unicode Emoji, section 2.9 “Color”.

The new emoji in the set are listed in Emoji Recently Added v12.0, with sample images. The new Emoji typically start showing up on mobile phones in September/October — some platforms may release them earlier.

We are so excited to finally have interracial couple Emoji, which is something we have called for at Emoji Foundation for a while now. Other notable characters are the drop of blood, sea otter (a personal favorite) and disability emoji. Whose life could be complete without a yawning emoji? And finally, the oyster emoji, which is apparently the end of sexism.

FINALLY, SEXISM IS OVER https://t.co/XjBTkKQYAK

— Christine Love (@christinelove) February 5, 2019

Without Further Ado, the 59 new Emoji

Unicode has selected March 5 as the release date for Unicode 12.0. This is when the final emoji list for 2019 will be published (Emoji 12.0 is currently still being decided upon), alongside of course, other Unicode characters being added this year.

In The News

Children Are Using Emoji for Digital-Age Language Learning

I wanted to find out not only whether kids were texting emoji but which emoji, and why? How do they organize emoji into sequences and ideas, and how do these early ramblings shift as kids learn to read?

wired.com

Poop Emoji Reborn As Soft Serve Ice Cream

kotaku.com

 How We Apologize Now

Zara Rahim, who handled publicity for Vogue before joining The Wing, a women’s co-working space, as its communications director, said that the efficacy of these statements lies not only in their speed but also their appearance. “I can just write this quick note on my Notes app, because it looks like I did it on my phone, have my publicist take a quick glance at it, if I’m smart,” she said, “and then post it directly on my Instagram.”

nytimes.com

EMOJI CONFERENCE

May of this year will usher in Emoji 2019: 2nd​ International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media. Co-located with The Web Conference 2019 (formerly WWW)

Overall 2019 is going to give us some of the new emoji we have been waiting for. We will continue to learn and expand our understanding of these little symbols.

Emoji 2019 aims to stimulate research on understanding social, cultural, communicative, and linguistic roles of emoji and developing novel approaches to analyze, interpret and understand emoji and their usage in social media applications. It provides a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry in the areas of social network analysis and mining, natural language processing, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, and computational social sciences to discuss high-quality research and emerging applications, to exchange ideas and experience, and to identify new opportunities for collaboration.

We hope to see you there!

Apple today submitted an official proposal to the Unicode Consortium, requesting a greater variety of emoji representing people with disabilities.

The company says it wants to fill a gap in accessibility that exists in the emoji lexicon.

The emoji include an ear with a hearingaid, a person making the ASL sign for “deaf,” a person walking with a cane, people in two different wheelchairs, and two kinds of prosthetic limb. It also includes both a guide dog in a harness, and a service dog in a vest, with Apple explained each animal’s role and why it should be added to the growing list of Emoji.

The company developed the emoji in collaboration with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, American Council of the Blind, the and the National Association of the Deaf. According to Emojipedia, these emoji, if approved, could be available as early as 2019.

Apple points out in the proposal that one in seven people has a disability of some kind, and that emoji should reflect this:

At Apple, we believe that technology should be accessible to everyone and should provide an experience that serves individual needs. Adding emoji emblematic to users’ life experiences helps foster a diverse culture that is inclusive of disability. Emoji are a universal language and a powerful tool for communication, as well as a form of self-expression, and can be used not only to represent one’s own personal experience, but also to show support for a loved one.

Right now, the only accessibility Emoji we have blue wheelchair icon , but that’s hardly a fair representation considering we’ve got everything else from ghosts to dragons to  the FOUR TYPES OF WHITE SQUARES  we currently have…

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Apples says it doesn’t consider its proposed emoji to be “a comprehensive list of all possible depictions of disabilities, but to provide an initial starting point for greater representation for diversity within the emoji universe.” We at Emoji Foundation look forward to adding them to out Emoji Dictionary asap!

https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-proposes-new-accessibility-emojis/ on Emojipedia

We have 157 new emoji such as:

Look for the  new Emoji 11.0 set to start showing up on mobile phones in August or September.

The man and woman emoji can now have various hair styles (red-haired, curly-haired, white-haired, and bald), and the new superhero and supervillain support genders and skin tones. The new leg and foot also support skin tones.

The new emoji are listed in Emoji Recently Added v11.0, with sample images. These images are just samples: vendors for mobile phones, PCs, and web platforms will typically use images that fit their overall emoji designs.

Unicode has released some new Emoji that they will vote on to be added to your phones!

One of the focus points of this round of Emoji candidates is HAIR. We have Afros, Red Heads, Grey Hair and even a shaved head! I know how long many of you have been waiting for the inclusion of a redhead (myself included). Lets hope this Emoji gets included in the next release!

There is also a nod to the scientists and health advocates out there with the Mosquito Emoji!

But global health advocates think there’s one important emoji that’s missing: the mosquito. It is, after all, the world’s deadliest animal. The diseases it spreads, like malaria and dengue, cause one million deaths a year.

That’s why the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (which is a funder of this blog) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs are lobbying intensely for a mosquito emoji.

These new Emoji are not final, but will be voted on for inclusion in the next round of Emoji updates. So keep your fingers crossed for your favorites! We will keep you posted about any upcoming Emoji Updates!

Check out the new Emoji Candidates Below!

The Animoji feature in iOS 11, which are animated versions of the popular emoji found on the iPhone. Animoji will use the Face ID hardware face-scanning features of the iPhone X to create custom 3D versions based on your own facial expressions.

Federighi joked,”If you were by chance wondering what humanity would do when given access to the most advanced facial tracking technology available, you now have your answer.” The answer is, Animoji.