By Julie Clover
The iOS 17.4 beta released today introduces new emoji symbols, including lime, edible brown mushroom, phoenix, broken chain, vertical head shake (as in nodding “yes”), and shake. head horizontally (shaking head “no”).
Mockup of new emoticons via Emojipedia
These symbols are part of the Unicode 15.1 update, which was approved in September 2023.
There are also four new family emoji combinations, as well as updates for six people, which now have directional characteristics such as “facing right” or ” face to face.” left. Direction options can be used for a walking person, a running person, a kneeling person, a person with a white cane, a person in a manual wheelchair, and a person in a power wheelchair.
This is a smaller update than we have we usually get, with fewer emoji characters, but that's because it's a Unicode Consortium .1 update and not a major update.
Currently, iOS 17.4 is only available to developers, but it should go into public beta soon version. testers. The official launch will take place sometime in March.
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