Apple Working to Add More Diversity to Emoji Character Set

Emoji character set doesn't meet all the desires, on this basis Apple "working closely" to expand its emoji set, that according to Apple’s vice president of worldwide corporate communications, Katie Cotton, who spoke to MTV Act (spotted by The Verge who confirmed the statement ). The company is working with the Unicode Consortium to add more characters to its emoji offerings. 

"Tim forwarded your email to me. We agree with you. Our emoji characters are based on the Unicode standard, which is necessary for them to be displayed properly across many platforms. There needs to be more diversity in the emoji character set, and we have been working closely with the Unicode Consortium in an effort to update the standard."

Emoji inception was at Japanese phone carriers with very few of those characters, without -Caucasian icons, contrary to the existing now, the set has largely featured Caucasian characters, which Apple aims to change.

Emoji were incorporated into Unicode Consortium, which allowed them to be used on multiple platforms. The last big update to Apple's emoji collection came in 2012 with iOS 6 when the company added additional characters and made emoji accessible to all users. Previously, special apps were required to access emoji on iOS.

iPhone Emojis keyboard

To enable the Emoji keyboard under Settings > General > Keyboard. Then select "Add new Keyboard." Scroll until you see "Emoji" and tap to add it. To use emoji, tap the button that looks like a globe on your keyboard.

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Data source: MTV Act  The Verge via MacRumors