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One of them comes from Germany: iOS 15.4 brings these new emojis to your iPhone
Salute, dissolve, melt away, heart symbol: You can use these and many other new symbols in all chats from iOS 15.4.
100+ new chat icons are waiting for you with the upcoming iOS update. In addition to numerous faces and hand gestures, an emoji from Germany also made it into the package.
With iOS 15.3, Apple released an extremely important update that you should definitely install, but very little has changed on the surface. With iOS 15.4, i.e. the upcoming major update, that will be different. Because more than 100 chat symbols, so-called emoji, are being added to the already huge selection. And again the question arises as to how it was previously possible to communicate without these faces, hands and symbols.
There are seven new faces. A face melts, one hides its eyes behind its hands, an emoji salutes, another holds back tears and a skeptical look is also included. An emoji face appears to be dissolving. The already available face, which holds its hand over its mouth in astonishment, gets an alternative to better distinguish between amusement and shock.
The smartphone manufacturers have so far disagreed on this. This led to misunderstandings when someone meant to be shocked, but users of other devices saw an amused face. Communication is everything.
This repeatedly led to misunderstandings: While the face with the hand in front of the mouth looks amused on Twitter, Android, Twitter, Whatsapp and Co., the Apple symbol seemed more shocked. With iOS 15.4, Apple is adapting.
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Hey you, yes I’m pointing at you!
There are also fresh hand gestures: Open hands to the left or right, up or down, as well as a finger pointing, embracing hands and a hand gesture that is known, for example, for asking for a sum of money, i.e. crossed index fingers and thumbs.
A person with a crown, a pregnant gender-neutral person and a pregnant man are added for more equality in some symbols. Hand gestures also get more skin colors, for example, 25 combinations are added when shaking hands.
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There are also symbols in other categories, for example a coral, a lotus, an empty or full bird’s nest, a slide, the hand of Fatima used as an Islamic symbol of blessing, a life ring and a disco ball. The sphere is also interesting because it was designed by Gero Simone, a presenter at radio station 1Live.
In the broadcaster’s blog, Simone describes how complicated it was to get the ball onto your smartphone. He worked on applications and drafts for more than three years until his chat symbol was finally accepted by the responsible consortium. The joy should be correspondingly great that his emoji will soon be available on the majority of the 1.8 billion Apple devices that are currently in active use.
Those: Emojipedia, WDR
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