
That compares with 112 in 2021's Emoji 14.0, while 2020's Emoji 13.0 and Emoji 13.1 contained 334 between them (117 and 217, respectively). 'Each of the 31 new emoji included within iOS 16.4 are from Unicode's Emoji 15.0 recommendations, which were made in September of last year.'Īpple has also made some subtle redesigns maracas has a different colour pattern, while Apple's version of the Wi-Fi symbol has fewer radio waves.įans may notice the new batch does not contain any flag emoji – not only geographical flags, but also pride flags, language flags and other colour-based flags.Ī decision to create no more flag emoji was taken by Emojipedia due to the 'transient nature' of many pride flags, and the 'challenges including some identities while excluding others', it said.Įmojipedia pointed out that there are far fewer emoji as part of this year's draft list compared to previous years – only 31. 'Today Apple has debuted 31 new emoji designs within its newly-released iOS 16.4 update, finally bringing a plain pink heart emoji to iPhones, iPads, and all other Apple devices across the world,' said Keith Broni at Emojipedia. Including the colour variations of the pushing hands, 31 new emoji are available from today. It could be used to indicate refusal of something, or holding out a hand for a high five.Īpple's version of pushing hand is markedly different from the sample image revealed by Emojipedia last year. Pushing hand emoji looks like one half of the existing 'folded hands' emoji, which is often used to indicate prayer, thanks or reverence. There's also 'pushing hand' in a range of colours – yellow and various skin tones – either right-facing or left-facing.

Other new emoji are blackbird, goose, hyacinth, hand fan, wooden flute and hair pick – used for combing curly or thick hair.ĭespite faces being among the top-used emoji, the only new face emoji in this release is 'shaking face'.

There are already several other versions of pink hearts including a growing pink heart, two-hearts, heart with arrow, heart with ribbon and beating heart, but not a plain pink heart. One of the most anticipated additions is a pink heart, one of the most 'discussed absences on the emoji keyboard' since 2016, Emojipedia has said. Companies apply stylised versions of the designs to their own operating systems – including Apple, Google and Meta, which started rolling out its own new designs to Facebook at the end of last month.
