Tech giant Apple has just released a beta version of its new iPhone operating system to developers, and there may be some new, advanced specs in there, but it’s pretty hard to say, because right now, the internet is losing its damn mind over all the new emojis.
YOU get new emojis, and YOU get new emojis … In total, there will be around 300. Should you want to express the sentiment of ‘Australian Flag’, or hold your phone up to a fellow festival-goer and demand that they kiss it, well, now there’s an emoji for that.
One of the most talked-about developments is the fact that emoijis will soon, notionally, be more racially diverse. There have long been calls for this, and it seems the developers have finally listened.
Early reports are that you can hold your finger over any one face to change its skin tone. As seen above, you can go for darker or lighter tones, or … let’s just go out on a limb and say you can make it resemble Tan Mom after a particularly orange day at the salon.
The new emojis also represent different combinations of couples and families, so should you wish, you could go ahead and send two dudes/ladies kissing along with the aforementioned Aussie flag to your local member to ask for marriage equality?
Or you could just continue sending a bunch of random shit to your friends, it’s your call. There is no set-in-stone release date confirmed for the new operating system, but it will likely be out this year.
via News Limited / The Next Web
