iOS 14.2 beta 2 was released by Apple to developers today, meaning that new emoji — including cockroach, transgender flag, beaver, and more — are due for public release in the coming weeks.
While Apple previewed a subset of its 2020 emoji updates in July, the majority have not been seen until today.
Two emojis not seen from Apple until today include Smiling Face with Tear and Disguised Face.
This is also the first time Apple’s gender variations for people wearing a Tuxedo or Veil have been seen.
Prior releases assigned a man to wear the tuxedo and a woman to wear a veil, but these have been reclassified by Unicode as gender neutral emojis in Emoji 13.0, paving the way for consistent options for women or men to wear either, in addition to the default person design.
Other emojis not shown before by Apple include Mx Claus (a gender-inclusive alternative to Santa Claus or Mrs Claus) and a set of bottle-feeding people.
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Just what we need another flag for the mentally ill.
It can’t decide what it is?
The flag for the mentally ill the one that says: “Trump 2020”
I’ll bet you this is the most highly anticipated update of the year. Is the cockroach holding the transgender flag?
More likely the beaver
This is a headline? Seriously?
I wish Apple would let us prune the selection of emoji. 90% of them I will never use, but I have to scroll past them anyway. Now there are 60 more to scroll past.
Beaver! A nice alternative to a peach! Is there a dill pickle as an alt for eggplant?
Not pleased with this
Not pleased with RKitm
It would be far faster and easier to let me draw my own emoji then to have to scroll through so many and risk it not looking the same on the other person’s phone.
It couldn’t be simpler. Send yourself a text or email with say ten each of the emojis you most use.
Voila! They’re all at the front of the queue under frequently used
Coachroach great. There seem to be more any of them around these days, especially 2 legged ines
Oops meant 2 legged ones.