“Your iPhone’s emoji are about to get a lot more racially diverse,” Ben Geier reports for Fortune.
“In the new versions of Apple’s iOS and OS X operating systems, the available emoji will include a wider range of skin colors,” Geier reports. “In order to access the new skin tones, you’ll select an emoji, then hold and tap your preferred appearance.”
“Apple was able to add the new racially diverse emoji after changes on the part of the Unicode Consortium, an industry standards group that determines which emoji will be available to smartphone users,” Geier reports. “The Consortium first proposed the skin tone swatch idea back in November 2014 amid increasing criticism of emoji’s lack of diversity.”
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“A lot of thought has clearly gone into it – instead of making the emoji list five times as long, you can now click and hold a picture and then scroll right to change its ethnicity,” Christopher Hooton reports for The Independent. “Any ‘people’ icons can be altered, and the family has also been given a more contemporaneous makeover, now showing kids with gay and lesbian parents.”
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